Concrete mesh support spacers - how much??

[julianf]

These things -

about 50p each?? Theyre the type of thing that should be a tenner for a sack full, surely?

I can only think im not finding the right retailer?

 

[God mode restorations]

Yes. They are kind of expensive. They come in different heights. They are good for a single layer mesh. But if your putting in two layers you will need different ones.

 

[brightspark]

half bricks and sit mesh on top

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

http://www.buildbase.co.uk/concrete-meshmen-spacers-100008639-2805405
Half the price.

 

[cocker]

half bricks and sit mesh on top

Building control/nhbc no likey .

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Only dog bones I could find were £60 per 500. OK if you've got a lot to do 13p each.

https://www.mkmbs.co.uk/prodb011053-concrete-meshmen-spacers-4050mm/
20p per unit.

 

[8ob]

Good call Mr @eLuSiVeMiTe , at least you can stand on the mesh if you use this type, the plastic ones in @julianf `s post collapse if you stand on them compromising the mesh position in the slab.

Bob

 

[tlovatt]

Just get the concrete down, throw the mesh on top and then walk about on it / jump up and down on it (depends upon the slump) until you have the required coverage - this method has been sucessfully used for many generations of construction workers, and if you wash your wellington boots afterwards they can last for many square miles of surface

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Don't forget your stetson.

 

[cocker]

Just get the concrete down, throw the mesh on top and then walk about on it / jump up and down on it (depends upon the slump) until you have the required coverage - this method has been sucessfully used for many generations of construction workers, and if you wash your wellington boots afterwards they can last for many square miles of surface

Must be right , a thousand pikeys can't all be wrong .

 

[brightspark]

Must be right , a thousand pikeys can't all be wrong .

BUT IF THEY ARE WRONG not many argue the point

 

[123hotchef]

half bricks and sit mesh on top

Cut a piece of mesh and bend it downwards

 

[8ob]

Must be right , a thousand pikeys can't all be wrong .

I wonder how they wire tie the sheets together using this method My landscape lads do a fair bit of this sort work, its quite simple stuff really.

 

[123hotchef]

z

 

[cocker]

I wonder how they wire tie the sheets together using this method My landscape lads do a fair bit of this sort work, its quite simple stuff really.

Very nice , more spacers needed if well nourished chaps like myself are nipping up !
Where did the 4" pipe - bottom left - go ?

 

[8ob]

Very nice , more spacers needed if well nourished chaps like myself are nipping up !
Where did the 4" pipe - bottom left - go ?

Tiz there Mr @cocker but I have set the PB to quite a small resize and it seems to crop off some of the original picture.

Bob

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I wonder how they wire tie the sheets together using this method My landscape lads do a fair bit of this sort work, its quite simple stuff really.

Remember my first experience steel fixing. Anything but simple. Wet site, footings with complex steel Reinforcing which the supported mesh across the slab poured in one hit. Level changes left right and center. Gulley's formed in the slab for drainage. Steel left protruding to tie concrete reinforced walls and then ceiling in. Sure the pics of the steel are lurking somewhere. Probably on my old iPad.
8 cement trucks and a crane pump. A tiring day that pour was.

The garage was a proper mancave. Last job before I left Jersey.