The pour is the shortest part of the day.
Grade, compaction, forms, footings and a full mat of steel, all of it decided long before the truck is ordered. It is also the one part of a build that cannot be done twice.
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The job behind the photograph.
Slabs fail from underneath. The ground gets stripped of anything organic, brought to grade and compacted in lifts, because uncompacted fill settles for years and takes the slab with it. Forms go on that, set to a string line and to a fall that sends water away from the building rather than into it.
Then steel. A full grid tied out across the whole pad and lifted on chairs so it sits in the concrete rather than under it. Reinforcement resting on dirt is doing nothing at all. Footings and thickened edges are formed and tied as part of the same mat, so the slab and its edges act as one piece.
Iron County freezes. Footings go below frost depth, and a garage or shop slab gets its perimeter detailed accordingly. On the pour itself: screeded, floated, edged, jointed on a line you were shown, and then protected while it cures, which in a Cedar City summer means keeping water on it rather than walking away.
Get a number for your foundation or slab.
A few lines is enough to start. Russ reads these himself and rings back to set up a walk-through: on site, in person, and free whether or not you go ahead.
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