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    Bad bad honeycombing

    The wall must carry a first floor concrete deck. That's about 3 tonnes per meter wall. The amount of rebar is two lenghts of no3 for every course, which is 30cm. Above door openings this is doubled. The system is an ICF which uses ply-form on one side instead of EPS. The forms can be reused and...
  2. DKMarty

    Bad bad honeycombing

    Thanks for all the replies. The concrete supplier sent a specialist to look at it and he deemed the wall as "certainly usable" for the purpose it's intended to fulfill. The rationalization for this was A a rebound hammer test shows the wall as absolutely fine B The honeycombed areas do not chip...
  3. DKMarty

    Bad bad honeycombing

    Remove and replace entire wall? Or just honeycombed areas?
  4. DKMarty

    Bad bad honeycombing

    This wall was poured with no vibrating. The result is a lot of honeycombing and segregation (In some places we see the original colors of the small rocks used. It's like they never touched cement paste) The wall is 7inch thick with a good deal of rebar in it. It is a wall inside the house, so...

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