a have a set of plans for new construction..
you can commute from Philly..:mj07:
beantownjim is looking for work :shrug:
Raymond the concrete guy
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Better ask the mail order bride, she may hate hot tubs and you never knew it.
Hate to see you do all that work for nothing.
Hate to see you do all that work for nothing.
You knew it was just too much to ask that Agent stay out of a thread that has nothing to do with him 
Sponge:
The supports I was talking about are for the deck, I want the hot tub to be sink in the deck so the top is level with the floor of the deck.
Gonna build the deck around the hot tub.
Sponge:
The supports I was talking about are for the deck, I want the hot tub to be sink in the deck so the top is level with the floor of the deck.
Gonna build the deck around the hot tub.
You knew it was just too much to ask that Agent stay out of a thread that has nothing to do with him
Sponge:
The supports I was talking about are for the deck, I want the hot tub to be sink in the deck so the top is level with the floor of the deck.
Gonna build the deck around the hot tub.
I have been thinking of doing this myself but i would put some footings in for the tub. A six inch slab is nice but down the road you may have some problems. The house i bought had a carport. Well, low and behold one of the corners cracked on the one side and gradually the roof started saggingThese tubs remember are very heavy (with the water) and add in ten, twenty people on the deck they become really heavy. I try to build stuff where i don't have to ever mess with it again. Boy i remember my days in Sea isle City where we have 100 people on the deck and you could feel it swaying. I use to go right back in the house. Then the next day you hear about a deck collapsing six blocks down and people being medi vac to the local hospital. You ever check out those Therma Spa tubs? They are beautiful but pricey.
I am a structural engineer and I can confirm that Raymond's recommendation for a 6" thick slab is certainly sufficient for a hot tub. The only suggestion that I would give would be to thicken the slab at the perimeter to be 12" deep by 8" wide with a continuous #4 bar centered in the thicked portion, 3" clear from the soil. I would also agree with Raymond that the slab should have a layer of 6X6 W1.4XW1.4 welded wire mesh reinforcing which should be supported during the pour so that it is in the top 1/3 of the slab.
Thanks Judge, I'll follow that advice, believe me when I say when I build this thing it ain't coming apart.
I have no freaking idea what the ?bottom and top channels?, ?rebate arm? and ?locking plate? are in this picture. Must be some kind of futuristic forming system for robots.it's called a monolithic pour
i remember from my days selling home improvements
Jeez Boys, did you really have to go Divergence Theorem on us and what the hell does the change of the density within a region of space have anything to do with a concrete pad for a hot tub?Make sure you check my formula below, this should help:
TRay, I will be arriving in Vegas the day after Thanksgiving for a nine day stint. Will be tied up during three of the days the following week at an Autodesk conference where I am presenting but would really like to get together with you while I am there. I will be staying at the Venetian so shoot me an email and we can make arrangements.
