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Groundwork & Foundations

Newly formed foundation pads covered with soil?

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.14 PM

We have a steel frame building to be built shortly and have had the foundation pads formed by our builder. The floor of the shed - 12m X 8m - was to be poured after the frame was built, but the builders have not levelled the ground completely over the site before forming the pads. The pads are in place to the design drawings from the building manufacturers and have cured for 2 days and the builder has taken off the shuttering, backfilled around them with the spoil but has also covered them all over the top surface with soil too. We have a steel erector due to site in two weeks to build up the frame but any advice or comments about why the pads would have been covered and will this compromise them at all in any way?

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3 Answers

Anonymous user

No, it won't harm the concrete at all. The steelworks folks will need it to be cleaned off the tops though before they start.

Answered25 August 2020

Coreline Construction Ltd

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Cobham

The groundworkers though,should expose the pads,do the life easier for the steel frame workers as they know where they are and it will not need to look for them.

Answered1 September 2020

Anonymous user

Thay will need to be cleaned off and more than likely be grouted wen steel goes up before concrete gets poured

Answered4 September 2020