Long story short. Where we have excavated now use to be another house that they renovated to the tune of 250k. 1 week from moving in there was to much bat crap in the soffitts and made it non liveable so we leveled it this year. Now we are putting up a 10000 sq. foot house at about 4 to 5 million. The pad in the bottom is in the mechanical room which will hold all the waste water which will be pumped out. They want no penetrations through the floor. We have to 2 mats of steel in the floor of 15M and two mats of 15M in the walls. We are pouring the slab as a raft slab 16″ thick. The main slab will be a 130 cu. meter pour. The slab is a water proof concrete plus a water proof membrane under the slab. The walls also have a water proof membrane.
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Where is this project? You got me with the mixing of ft and meters...
Is this a tank that's being formed? How much weight will it hold?
Edited 7/8/2007 5:42 pm ET by peteshlagor
I live in western Canada. I usually calculate conc. in metric. I find it easier. The pad is 3' 3" below the main floor. There will be holding tanks which will pumped out. All waste water from basement bathrooms to the main floor will put in these tanks. They seem to be going more to this system in the city. It should be interesting because there is alot of steps involved in getting the whole basement water proof. Over kill as far as I am concerned. The 20 year flood plane is 4 feet above bsmt. slab but if they will ever see that I doubt it. It is almost a comercial type job. Conc. walls are 10" thick and over 10' high on two ends of the house are crawl spaces. One is because they are too close to the pool and the other end is near the trees which they don't want to loose. 60% of the house will be timber framing and the rest will be sticked framed.
Knew it had to be a Canadian posting when I saw concrete in metres and everything else in ft. The entire concrete industry decided they would go metric 20-odd years ago when it looked like the whole country was on its way. Of course the changeover process stalled (and remains so), but the concrete guys, bless their hearts, are still metric. So for our firends in the Excited States, it should be expained that 15 M rebar refers to 15 mm, or 5/8". I believe you refer to that as #5 bar.
In the meantime, Canadians will go on driving on roads marked in kilometres, building homes in feet and inches, measuring temperature in Celsius, buying meat and fruit by the pound, and figuring their fuel economy in miles per gallon whilst paying for it by the litre!!!
Lignum est bonum.
and figuring their fuel economy in miles per gallon whilst paying for it by.................An arm and a leg.
$1,03 a liter comes out to $4,12/us gallon. in cdn dollars. Or about $4,00 us/gallon."No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree." - W.C. Fields
Holy conversion overload, Batman.Huck said it first. I just agreed with him.
Judging by the number of people driving huge trucks and SUVs they don't need, gas is much too cheap in both countries.Lignum est bonum.
With that reasoning yup yer right!"No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree." - W.C. Fields
If you ever crossed the border you might understand all new vehicles are in metric. It is irrelavent what we measure or calculate in. But when you are unwilling to change .............that I guess is what makes you an American and us Canadians EH!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
I find it far easier in metric for volume and if a batch wants it in cubic yards I will give it to them.
us Canadians EH
Watched a couple episodes of that Ice Road Trucker show (not as good as the crab show). Thought it was kinda funny that some of the Canadians talk just like US folks stereotype them... ending sentences with "eh" and everything. Reminded me of the McKenzie brothers. :)
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"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep." -- Dale Carnegie
It is just shows how little the Americans could care less about Canadians. You claim we live in the frozen north. The eh was a pun at the arogance some show on this site. My posting has nothing to do with the metric system and why some feel it necessary to add the own touch on it shows how little they know about the industry. It is funny how some can post useless sayings about Canadians but you sure in the hell buy alot of products from us. It would really screw you up if we sent all our lumber in metric. I guess I can't put all Americans in the same basket cause I do know a few from this site that are cool people but others........... but I guess the same can be said for Candaian.