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Old 08-26-2008, 10:24 PM   #1
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Old 08-26-2008, 10:26 PM   #2
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was there a sale on orange cones?
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Old 08-26-2008, 10:53 PM   #4
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It looks good, but what kind of magic do you use to suspend that brick?
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It looks good, but what kind of magic do you use to suspend that brick?
Wondering that self-same thing.

Also where is this that they don't
use cap block?
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Old 08-27-2008, 07:19 AM   #7
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I am in Minnesota

The brick sat suspended all by themselves, ya I don't know how they stayed that way... I add the 4x6's just to be safe until I poured the concrete. The next day I went back and mortared in the bottom row of brick that sat on top of patio.I used two pieces of expansion joint on top of the patio for the patio to move during the seasons and not bust out the mortar.

I will get a pic of it, as I need to go over there and discuss some landscaping the home owners want done.
You really need to cut a joint
around that brick line.
It should rest only on the brick ledge,
not on the flat work, which will move.
I've seen it over and over, either the
flat work, the brick, or both will crack
when your concrete heaves on the
outside edge.

They must have laid the brick on an
angle iron to keep it isolated from
the concrete work to begin with.
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No expansion/control joints on the slab? Also, did you put a gravel base down?
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No expansion/control joints on the slab? Also, did you put a gravel base down?

Re-read my previous post on the control joints

I did not put gravel down as the base was already well compacted undistributed earth.
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wHERES THE CONCRETE WIRE? COMES IN A ROLL.Whats with the rebar ---few and far between???

Different freeze/thaw cycle A N D codes ....huh?
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looks nice and neat, good job
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