I had a pipe that needed to be moved from the middle of the room into the wall. To accomplish this I needed to break up the concrete and dig up the foundation to expose the pipe underground.
I have accomplished all of this and had a plumber move the pipe into the wall. Now comes the reconstruction. The pipe was ABS so I wrapped it in some soil fabric, then poured down a large amount of rock, concrete and soil mixture. that I originally removed.
I leveled it off and then poured in the wet concrete.
My mistake was I did not pack down the mix of rock, soil and old concrete. I only realized this after the fact. I am worried now that the concrete will not be stable and begin to crack.
This work was done in a bathroom. There will be beams of 2x4 laid down on the concrete and then a sheet of plywood on top of the 2x4 for the floor. My question is, will this be strong enough? I thought about it and the plywood/2x4s should distribute the weight and their shouldn't be a huge amount of pressure on any single area. This is only an area about 5 feet long and 2 feet wide (average). It was a repair job, not a full reconstruction.
I am also hoping that because I poured in a large amount of rock and old concrete that there will be much less give than with pure soil.
Am I ok or do I have to redo this?
I have accomplished all of this and had a plumber move the pipe into the wall. Now comes the reconstruction. The pipe was ABS so I wrapped it in some soil fabric, then poured down a large amount of rock, concrete and soil mixture. that I originally removed.
I leveled it off and then poured in the wet concrete.
My mistake was I did not pack down the mix of rock, soil and old concrete. I only realized this after the fact. I am worried now that the concrete will not be stable and begin to crack.
This work was done in a bathroom. There will be beams of 2x4 laid down on the concrete and then a sheet of plywood on top of the 2x4 for the floor. My question is, will this be strong enough? I thought about it and the plywood/2x4s should distribute the weight and their shouldn't be a huge amount of pressure on any single area. This is only an area about 5 feet long and 2 feet wide (average). It was a repair job, not a full reconstruction.
I am also hoping that because I poured in a large amount of rock and old concrete that there will be much less give than with pure soil.
Am I ok or do I have to redo this?