You can still avoid a tilted slab with just 30 minutes of work, a hammer drill and some 16 inch long pieces of 5/8 inch reinforcing rod. All you (or your builder) needs to do is pin your slab to your foundation. It is so easy to do!

Jan 18, 2010 · One way to minimize these separations is to pin the two sections together with rebar. The rebar, or dowels, should be sized for the job. Very heavy and massive pieces of concrete will use heavier gauge rebar, but for typical driveway, sidewalk and step repair, ½-inch rebar is usually adequate.

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Nov 2, 2014 · It just doesn't seem like a very good idea to pin into a slab that is only 3" thick. Keying the thicker slab under the thinner one seems like the better way to go. Anyone have experience doing one or the other?

Oct 27, 2010 · Ramset makes "Ramguard" drive pins for use with pressure treated lumber. They come in either 2-1/2" or 3", with a washer or not. Just trying to determine which is the best one to use?

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Jun 22, 2007 · My design uses #5 or #6 hairpins that enclose each row of anchors and extend beyond the shear breakout cone into the concrete wall/slab by a distance of ld, measured from the furthest row of anchors from the free edge.

Mar 4, 2023 · Using hairpins, do other engineers treat the SOG as a structural slab, for ACI reinforcing limitations? So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape.

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