Lyndhurst Garden House

Lyndhurst Garden House
Lyndhurst Garden House

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

15 tons !

That's an estimate of the weight of my concrete slab.  And that's not counting a few tons of base material underneath.  It used 7.5 cubic yards of concrete, minus a little waste, plus a considerable amount of heavy gauge rebar, 4 #6 bars in each beam, and a matrix of #3 on top.

Each cuyd of concrete weighs 3915 pounds, about 2 tons.  With a few hundred pounds of rebar, that brings the total to nearly 15 tons.

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