Rebar tieing

CTyler · Jun 26, 2003

Well I got all my roughins done for the shop, the rock packed and plastic layed. Now for the rebar, what fun! I'm laying rebar 16" OC.

My question is this: Do I need to tie every single one of these or every other one so long as they are not loose?

Spencer · Jun 26, 2003

I can't answer your question but I would love to see some photos of your project.

Anonymous Poster · Jun 26, 2003

I would tie everyone of them together, otherwise when you start pouring they may move around creating weakspots. My opinion is that if I am going to spend the money/time to space the rebar at 16", then I am going to take the time to tie it all together.

CTyler · Jun 26, 2003

Hi Spencer, I'll try to get some pics up, maybe tommorrow. I'm taking Friday off from work to catchup on sleep and lay rebar. Need to have it done Sunday cause its being poured Monday morning. I was going to do it myself in three pours to make it managable but wifey wants is done now. Part of it, 16'x50' will be finished off with the bathroom, shower etc.. for her embroidery business.

I've got lots of pics that I haven't put up on the web page yet. Those are of the foundation for the house more dirt work, rock etc.. Trouble is I work 7-4 then go to the farm and work on stuff. Its 10-10:30 when before getting home and I'm dog tired.

Also need to figure out what to do about the pics getting dark when loading on the web. My ISP is compressing the pics and it makes them to dark /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif I need to set my own server up again and put it in the DMZ and not have to worry about it. So much to do so little time. Ok, nuff rambling.

CTyler · Jun 26, 2003

That was my initial thought was tie anything that crosses. I just wanted a sanity check to make I wasn't making extra work for myself. Another person at work here said they should all be tied as well.

Thanks
Chris

yooperdave · Jun 26, 2003

Well said, Danny. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Yooper Dave

gmason · Jun 26, 2003

they just set and poured concrete for a garage floor over a basement room at a house up the street yesterday. They sat 3 8" I beams then layed that coorigated looking steel sheating then rebar on top of that.
The rebar was welded at each intersection and the ends were welded to the steel sheating. A whole bunch of welds. Also there were angle steel around the perimeter of the floor that attached to the concrete basement walls with 1/2" tapped expanding bolts every 12".

I'll try to snap a picture or two sometime this weekend... quite a job...

gary

Anonymous Poster · Jun 26, 2003

I've seen it dome both ways, 50% and 100% tie. If it were me I would tie it 100%. At 16" OC spacing I would opt for tying every cross, then I'm not the one doing the tying /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Bird · Jun 26, 2003

Looks like you've gotten the answer to tying the rebar. I don't see any mention of how how you're holding it up to keep it from all being at the bottom of the slab, but assume you've made proper plans for that, too. On projects that I was responsible for, we required pedestals to hold the rebar in the center one-third of the slab.