Non Suspended Floor Slab

Pour compact and finishing concrete floor slab4.

Non suspended floor slab. Assemble and erect formwork for slab2. Practical activity for illawarra carpentry students to complete formwork to suspended slabs beams and columns. Casting the ground beam 25mm lower from original depth. A suspended timber floor on bearer s and joist s can sometime s be comparable cost wise on a flat site but is better suited if there s quite a bit to significant fall on the site.

A concrete slab is a common structural element of modern buildings consisting of a flat horizontal surface made of cast concrete. Steel reinforced slabs typically between 100 and 500 mm thick are most often used to construct floors and ceilings while thinner mud slabs may be used for exterior paving see below in many domestic and industrial buildings a thick concrete slab supported on. The most common application of suspended slab in residential construction is used at garage floor where below the garage floor is a storage. Suspended slabs are made of concrete and steel mesh the same as a ground slab.

Some slabs have hollow channels running through them these hollow core slabs are used to help reduce weight and also to allow cabling and piping to be run through the slab. Prepare and place reinforcement for slab3. Forming a groove line by diamond cutter at both end of ground beam. Slab on ground is the preferred option on a flat site due to speed and economies.

Non suspended slabs sit directly on the ground. Suspended concrete slab is referred to a cement slab that is not in contact with the ground. Method statement non suspended slab method statement for construction of non suspended slab. Concrete floor slab construction process includes erection of formwork placement of reinforcement pouring compacting and finishing concrete and lastly removal of formwork and curing of concrete slab.

Suspended slab may be the most expensive compared to the other s. Applying floor hardener finisher. This type of concrete slab construction requires different concrete slab design from the one we normally see that is cast on the ground.