How to pour the concrete porch

How correctly to pour concrete steps, on this I will tell you in this article.

How to pour the concrete porch

Site Preparation concrete porch

To begin, you must correctly identify the location for future steps. Once you have identified the place, the site of the steps preparing a hole the size of the casting. The pit in layers laid pieces, scraps of aerated concrete or brick fight and stones on top of it all covered with sand. Around the perimeter of the hole in the ground stakes strengthen formwork.

Filling with sand base

Surface-pit excavation clean sand fall asleep, and rammed lining. Then it is necessary to lay a surface of the roofing material in one layer.

Reinforcement metal mesh

On the roofing material laid ready meshes card with 100x100 mm cell (as shown in photo). By placing small scraps aerated.

Formwork device for ladders

Getting to the construction stages of the formwork. The width of the shuttering boards must be equal to the height of the sub-Stupenko, we have it is 180 mm. Boards fastened with screws to the hammered into the ground with wooden stakes.

Shaping the future steps

For all other parts of the formwork is used exactly the same board. Boards are fixed with screws using a screwdriver. In the middle of the long sides of the board to reduce flexure struts connected further short.

Filling with concrete formwork

Getting to fill concrete formwork. Around the middle of the plate thickness can be laid in concrete stones, glass bottles, metal waste - this will slightly reduce the consumption of concrete and dispose of non-combustible waste.

Necessarily, filling the upper layer of concrete re recessed reinforcing mesh.

Layer by layer fill all our formwork with concrete. concrete solution should not be too pliable, otherwise it can squeeze out of the upper stages.

Align concrete surface

Once the concrete mixture starts to set, start smoothing the surface using a trowel. Retractable solution in concrete projecting gravel particles, the pores are sealed. All surfaces of the steps attach a light slope for the smooth flow of rain water.

After the concrete finally grabs, formwork is covered with polyethylene film to protect the entire surface from drying. During the next week should be regularly watered abundantly concrete with water from the watering can.

Here is a small guide about how to fill in a concrete porch. Useful both to you and me a note.