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Post: # 25530Post lutonlagerlout

our skip bloke had to concrete his yard for the enviromental people and i believe it was 300 mm concrete with steel mesh in it on 225mm compacted MOT type 1, an engineer could tell you better than me though
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Post: # 25569Post Tony McC

The spec we used on the landfill sites, where the concrete had to withstand loads of 42 tonnes, was 225mm min of Type 1 sub-base, DPM, 300mm of 35N concrete, with PP fibres and 2 sheets of A193 mesh, top and bottom.

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