Concrete wire reinforcement

[Provience]

You better be putting wire in your concrete!!!!

Something is better than nothing!!!

Ever remove concrete with wire? Hell yeah it does stuff!

Without wire. Concrete will crack!!




All them people that say that stuff are dumb. Doing some work on a 6" slab with wire in it, this is the principle reason wire is stupid, other than its general uselessness

 

[Santa]

That looks more like wire under concrete

 

[Stingray]

Basalite 2-1/8 in. x 2-1/8 in. 1-3/4 in. Wire Dobie Concrete Brick 200000252 - The Home Depot

The Rebar Spacer Block 2 in. Wire Dobie is used as a chair to suspend rebar or welded wire in a freshly poured concrete slab. It maintains the reinforcement at the desired height as the concrete hardens

www.homedepot.com

Dobies..... use them

 

[Provience]

That looks more like wire under concrete

And it's how 100% of projects ends up

Even Dobie they fall over, wire gets stepped on etc. It's all ass, rebar or no bar

 

[M92PV4U]

When we pour slabs with mesh we fill the forms ½ way then add the wire. Anything bigger than a 6 x 8 we use rebar.

If we happen to pour a big slab with mesh, we pour the concrete on top of the mesh then pull it up into the concrete with hooks.

If you suck, you suck. It's not the meshes fault .

 

[Provience]

When we pour slabs with mesh we fill the forms ½ way then add the wire. Anything bigger than a 6 x 8 we use rebar.

If we happen to pour a big slab with mesh, we pour the concrete on top of the mesh then pull it up into the concrete with hooks.

If you suck, you suck. It's not the meshes fault .

Your mesh is still settling

I just don't use wire, because it's not worthwhile for anything on grade

 

[WHATAHEEP]

Ok cool

 

[ridenby]

I like the fiber that most the larger jobs call for. Looks like very coarse push broom bristles. Most of them get 3X the dosage.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Your mesh is still settling

Then your mud is to wet

 

[speed bump]

The worst sidewalk I ever remember removing had chicken wire in it. The second worst had wire mesh.

I will say the nice thing about smooth wire is you can hammer breaker the concrete off it if pretty effectively.

 

[M92PV4U]

I will say the nice thing about smooth wire is you can hammer breaker the concrete off it if pretty effectively.

Good, then you can reuse the mesh for the new slab.

 

[Steve300xcw]

The worst sidewalk I ever remember removing had chicken wire in it. The second worst had wire mesh.

I will say the nice thing about smooth wire is you can hammer breaker the concrete off it if pretty effectively.

We used to get it broke up with the forks on a skidsteer. One guy running around with a set of bolt cutters nipping the chunks apart. Worked pretty well

 

[Santa]

And it's how 100% of projects ends up

Even Dobie they fall over, wire gets stepped on etc. It's all ass, rebar or no bar

Not on the shit I deal with 5.5' to 6.5' thick mat slab., that's the skinny end of the form

 

[Provience]

Good, then you can reuse the mesh for the new slab.

Rude

 

[Provience]

Not on the shit I deal with 5.5' to 6.5' thick mat slab., that's the skinny end of the form

I hope your only reinforcement was welded wire.mesh


Oh wait, rebar mesh for big pour to do something real? Valid

Shit wire on a sidewalk or driveway? Waste of money and time

 

[Steve300xcw]

 

[AKnate]

Not on the shit I deal with 5.5' to 6.5' thick mat slab., that's the skinny end of the form

Your Mom's bedroom foundation? 🤣

 

[speed bump]

We used to get it broke up with the forks on a skidsteer. One guy running around with a set of bolt cutters nipping the chunks apart. Worked pretty well

Growing up you were the equipment and the summer my second job was pouring concrete the guy I worked for was an animal who at 65 thought 5 hours swinging a sledgehammer was just how you demo'd flatwork.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Growing up you were the equipment and the summer my second job was pouring concrete the guy I worked for was an animal who at 65 thought 5 hours swinging a sledgehammer was just how you demo'd flatwork.

Name wasnt gordon was it? I worked for him

 

[speed bump]

Name wasnt gordon was it? I worked for him

Nope Ferch, on top of being a hell of a concrete guy he was also a state champion arm wrestler.

 

[DR. SMASHER]

I see Joe the contractor type guys pouring small slabs and they just throw the wire on the ground and our on top of it. they'll argue to the end that is the right or fine way to do it.

 

[AKnate]

I hate that wire. Previous owner bought a bunch for probably the shop.slab and never used it ir for the future house.

Well 7-8 years later it's somehow scattered and grew into the brush. Jammed a hole sheet in the bushog a while back. Today found 3 or 4 more with the grader, though looked like the plow or snowblower already had also found them.

One sheet is entwined in a bush with thorns all over. The type that poke through jeans without even trying.
Gonna wad all that shit up with the excavator and shove it in the trash can.

I'm waiting to get a you're on the shit list letter from the trash guy. Last week was a 12k trailer jack, bathroom sink and like 30lbs of scrap metal. Have loaded that thing to the point I could barely move it.

 

[subybaja]

My MIL's suburban neighbor DIY'd a second width of concrete driveway. It took him a few weeks, so I had plenty of time to laugh at the reinforcement he layed out- iron pipe, conduit, bed frames...

Driveway looks OK a year later.

 

[[486]]

I like the fiber that most the larger jobs call for. Looks like very coarse push broom bristles. Most of them get 3X the dosage.

Thanks, next time I get concrete delivered I'm asking for "the big angry fiber, not that pussy polypropylene shit you sold me last time"

 

[bgaidan]

The worst sidewalk I ever remember removing had chicken wire in it. The second worst had wire mesh.

I will say the nice thing about smooth wire is you can hammer breaker the concrete off it if pretty effectively.

We used to get it broke up with the forks on a skidsteer. One guy running around with a set of bolt cutters nipping the chunks apart. Worked pretty well

Coolest slab removal I've seen was a resonant breaker. Big ass anvil that just skimmed the surface and vibrated and effectively turned the slab in to base. They'd come through afterward with an excavator with a single tooth rake and just rake all the rebar out in to a big ball.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Interesting

 

[Splib]

bgaidan you cant tow that with the Subaru .. . . .

 

[SomeGuy]

LMAO bitching about mesh done wrong makes it useless, got it

 

[Texas97]

masonry chairs are the answer to your mesh problems.

just because people are too stupid or lazy to install crack mesh or steel correctly, doesnt mean it wont work when it is installed correctly.

Masonry chairs. its just that simple.

 

[arse_sidewards]

rocks, bricks and random trash from around the job site are the answer to your mesh problems.

Fixed.