Concrete
Outdoor & decks
Concrete slab or footings
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Bags or ready-mix yards, gravel base, rebar or mesh and forms for a slab, a pad or footings.
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What are you pouring?
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Slab or pad
Patio, walk, shed or garage floor
Continuous footing
A strip under a wall
Round footings
Piers for deck or shed posts
Step pad
At a door or the bottom of steps
What is it for?
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Patio or walk
Shed or garage floor
Unheated
Driveway or parking pad
Floor of a heated room
Basement, addition
Slab length
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Along the house, if it meets the house.
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Slab width
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Thickness
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4″
Patios, walks, sheds
5″
Driveways, garages
6″
Trucks, RVs, hot tubs
Other
Gravel base
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None
Sandy, well-drained ground
4″
The usual
6″
Clay or soft ground
Reinforcement
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None
The joints control cracks
Wire mesh
5×10 ft sheets
Rebar grid
Driveways, heavy loads
What does it meet?
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Nothing
Stands alone
The house
Along one side
The house and a walk
Or steps on one end
Control joints
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Tool them
Groover, while it’s wet
Saw them
4–12 hours after finishing
Concrete from
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Pick for me
Bags up to about 1 cu yd, a truck above
Bags
Ready-mix truck
Curing
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Cure-and-seal
Spray on, done
Keep it damp
Plastic sheet for a week
Damp, then seal
Best against salt
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Common sizes
10×10
10×20
12×20
20×20
Concrete
1.23
cu yd
Order
1.5
cu yd
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