Where the garage beam lands
A beam support not sitting on its plate, found at frame stage in Pakenham.
Steel, chairs, ties and vapour barrier, checked while every bar can still be lifted and moved.
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The slab items that matter most are about where the steel ends up in the concrete. Mesh without enough chairs gets walked flat during the pour, short laps leave a weak line, and untied bars move as concrete goes in.
Annotated findings from Slab pre-pour inspections.
1Bored piersHoles drilled and cages set, concrete not yet ordered3FrameWalls standing and trusses on, before wrap and windows close it in
4Lock-up (pre-plaster)Roof, windows, external doors and cladding on, before plaster
5FixingLinings, joinery and doors in, painters not yet started
6WaterproofingMembrane on and cured, tiler not yet booked
7Pre-handover (PCI)About a week before the handover meetingA beam support not sitting on its plate, found at frame stage in Pakenham.
Plate joints bunched together and double walls left unjoined on a Pakenham frame.
What a slab pre-pour inspection checks in the steel, using findings from nearby Cranbourne East.
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They hold the steel at the right height so the concrete covers it properly. Steel that sits too low has too little cover and can corrode.
Where two pieces of mesh or bar overlap. The overlap has a minimum length so the steel acts as one piece.
Yes. Untied steel shifts when concrete is poured and vibrated, so it ends up somewhere other than where it was designed to be.
A day is usually enough. Tell us as soon as the pour date is set.
AS 2870, AS 3600 where it applies, and the engineer's slab design.
Only the surface. Everything inside the slab is final.