Base plate, too little cement in the concrete

  • Erstellt am 2020-06-14 15:06:55

Eriwan2

2020-06-14 15:06:55
  • #1
Hello, I am quite clueless when it comes to construction and am very worried about the following problem:

I want to build a 3x5x1.5 swimming pool in my garden using Styrofoam formwork blocks that will be poured with concrete.
Over the weekend, a friend who is a construction expert helped me pour the base slab (20cm), and for various reasons, we had to mix the concrete ourselves from cement and gravel.

I read online that the ideal mixing ratio is 1 part by weight cement to 4 parts by weight gravel, and that is exactly what the friend told me beforehand.
He mixed the concrete and I poured it.

Now that the slab is finished, I checked the delivery notes.
If I recalculate everything, we used exactly 8 tons of gravel and 1.250 tons of cement.
At a ratio of 1:4, it should have been 2 tons of cement.

He says that is no problem and comes up with arguments that I don’t fully understand.
(for example, there was still water in the gravel, so we actually used less gravel than was delivered.
So it was indeed moist, but as a layman, I am still very worried whether it will really hold.

Does anyone know about this and can please tell me something?
 

HilfeHilfe

2020-06-14 16:18:11
  • #2
No one will confirm that to you
 

hampshire

2020-06-14 16:37:07
  • #3
There is not just one concrete and one cement, but hundreds of different mixtures.
 

Eriwan2

2020-06-14 18:20:18
  • #4
No one is to sign for me that it holds. I would like the non-binding opinion of someone who knows their stuff. What would you do in my place?
 

hampshire

2020-06-14 18:47:38
  • #5
Have the type of cement given to you and ask the manufacturer.
 

danixf

2020-06-14 18:54:22
  • #6
Is there at least iron included and was it compacted? If proper iron was installed and the concrete was well compacted, I would not worry.
 

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