Slabs & Floors

4 articles

• Converting a Slab to Cubic Yards, and Why Plants Only Sell in Halves

  Cubic yards is the unit the truck arrives in, and it is the only unit the plant will talk to you about. Getting there from feet and inches takes one division.

• Concrete for a 10 × 10 Patio: Every Number, Start to Finish

  The most searched slab size there is. Here is every number for it, including the ones that decide whether you do it in bags or make a phone call.

• Driveway Slab Thickness: What the Extra Inch Buys You

  Four inches is a patio. A driveway carries a load that concentrates on four small contact patches, and the difference an inch makes is not linear.

• How Much Concrete for a Slab: The Table, and Why You Will Run Short

  The volume arithmetic takes ten seconds and almost nobody gets it wrong. People run short anyway, and the reason is not in the formula — it is in the ground underneath.