1. Is slab pour back considered "structural work" ?
2. The store I am renting started as a shell. The floor was dirt, with a small amount of concrete along the backwall. My general contractor had this strip of concrete cut out, and then built my concrete floor on top of the dirt. What type of floor is this, technically? Is it a Slab on Grade foundation? The main thing I want to find out is if the floor I paid to put in is considered the "foundation". Like I said, when I first gained access to my space, it only had a dirt floor.
Your help would be appreciated. Thanks!
2007-02-03 08:01:29 · 4 answers · asked by Chase Movie M 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
the floor should be at least 4" thick and chould contain a plastic vapor barrier and have wire down and it would be ok to put it on dirt but shold be attached to the existing floor with rebar
2007-02-03 08:13:34 · answer #1 · answered by coolbethbruce 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you have a standard foundation commercial building. Slabs are poured with concrete before even a trifle of construction upward is begun. You have a building that has foundation Pillars under the colums that hold the building outside. Then the foundation is extended in front and back to support the back and front walls. The floor is then poured inside those back and front wall foundations. There fore you do not have a slab type construction.
Slab is where the footer is extended downward at the edges to a depth of about 2 feed in most cases and that footer is poured right with the floor. Thus the word slab.
2007-02-03 08:13:59 · answer #2 · answered by James M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A slab would be considered structural if it was serving to hold up some significant structural load called dead load.
Structural slabs are thicker(12") than floor slabs(4"-6"). Structural slabs have reinforcing bars called rebar, floor slabs have only welded wire fabric.
If you bought a structure with no floor but dirt, then what you contractor gave you was a floor slab. If the building was standing before you took ownership than it must have been built on a foundation below grade. The slab you have is just a floor slab.
2007-02-03 08:09:56 · answer #3 · answered by mrmatz 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the slab is not the foundation the foundation is what the walls sit on top of to be a slab foundation the floor would have to extend under the walls. however because the floor is an important part of any structure Your building department might consider it as structural work
2007-02-03 13:59:09 · answer #4 · answered by Pat B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋