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Posted By Steve Fitzpatrick
Can anyone give me detailed info on this product when used for cast flooring slabs between metal filler joists.
I have had no luck searching the web and have read conflicting reports. Some questions are,
Is it meant to be a lightweight infill to take a structural screed or is it meant to be a load bearing floor slab?
I have read it is normally a mixture of ash, old coals and old blocks etc. is there anything else in the make up?
Has anyone heard of incidents of it collapsing? If so what was the cause?
Is it true if gets very wet it will disintergrate?
One more question is how many kilo newtons equate to a tonne when calculating the load bearing capacity of a floor per m2?
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Posted By Frank Hallett
Good afternoon Steve,
Clinker in-fill and blocks were something that were very common wen i wuz yung!
What you really need is a structural engineer, and I'm not one - sorry; but the following is the best that I can remember.
This form of floor infill used to be very popular when we used to manufacture the old-style "town gas" as it was an economic means of disposing of the waste in a productive [rather than environmentally friendly] way; and could be considered to be the fore-runner of the Durox and Thermalite building blocks that are so common now - neither are load-bearing.
As far as constituent materials, the principle ones were as you identify; the remainder could be extremely variable as I recall.
Clinker blocks had some water resistance as there was a proportion of cement as a binder; but the floor in-fill should be considered very vulnerable to brake-up if exposed to water and even relatively modest vehicular [including pallett truck] loadings unless protected by a screed surface designed to absorb the load and disperse liquids. It is no good as hard-core!
My apologies to the purists for any inaccuracies.
Frank Hallett
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