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Slab for an outside lift

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Subject: Slab for an outside lift
From: Conrad <conrad@conrad.uk.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:14:07 -0000
Hi again all in here.

For various OT reasons I have decided to put my 3 tonne 4 post lift outside
and to use a 2 post inside my barn-to-workshop conversion.

So, I need to make a slab for it. I think probably the same 6 inches of
hardcore and 6 inches of concrete is probably still fine, but I wondering
about how to lay it seeing as there wont be any walls around it. Should I
just level the gound off and put the hardcore straight onto that, or should
I 'sink' the whole thing into the ground? Cant really see any need to do
that. Should I still blind the hardcore and put the plastic sheet between
hardcore and concrete?

The ground gets very soft in the winter, so I figure I need to make the
hardcore base quite a lot bigger than the concrete slab. What I don't know
is how much bigger the slab needs to be than the lift? Should I allow say 1
foot all around, something like that?

Thanks,

Conrad

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