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workshop floor - strength question
| Pete Rimmer | 14/02/2022 23:50:53 |
| 1486 forum posts 105 photos | Gerry, concrete is poured on top of polystyrene all the time. It's a very common building practice precisly because it provides so much support along with excellent insulation. They even put it down and then just put a couple of inches of tarmac (which is soft and bendy) onto it to make car parks, as there poor sods found out.
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| duncan webster | 15/02/2022 00:18:00 |
| 5307 forum posts 83 photos | No-one is trying to argue that it isn't, but it needs to be thick enough so it can spread the load over the polystyrene without bending so much that it fractures. To extend Gerry's excellent analogy, if you made the glass say 1" thick you probably could stand on it. |
| gerry madden | 15/02/2022 00:18:39 |
| 331 forum posts 156 photos | Yes Pete, I know concrete is often put on top of polystyrene foam, and thats exactly what I shall do if and when the time comes. But the concrete has to be thick enough to carry the load. Then the foam basically acts as insulation, not as load bearing. Gerry |
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