Building a new foundations with nails

[Wolf.oxo]

Hi
I am new to the forum and here is my question?

I am in the process of building a new house and when the contractor was making the foundation he used steel nails to tied to rebars pointing to the wood before pouring the concrete. I asked him to remove it but he didn't so after the concert was poured I find the nails sticking out of the foundation, about 1 cm .
He told me that he will use a sealer over it, I told him it's not 5 cm coverage.

So now I have low coverage and steel nails connecting the moisture from the sand into the rebars.
What can I do to fix this issues.

Can I just ruff the Scarface of the foundation and make him pour more concrete to cover the nails. Or should I use the Hilti recommendation and insert rebars then pour more concrete?

Thank you all

 

[dik]

There are proper rebar accessories that should be used... not nails

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[LittleInch]

You should ask your designer.

A sketch or drawing or photo would be good.

Remember - More details = better answers
Also: If you get a response it's polite to respond to it.

 

[Wolf.oxo]

 

[Wolf.oxo]

Here is an illustration of the nails .

 

[Enable]

I mean he could have used a plastic spacer but it's not at all uncommon to spike two nails crossways + use wire tie to reef down a matt if it needs a little persuasion. It is more common on slabs though. However, if this is on the outside it's getting dampproofed, don't worry about it (though cut the ends off obviously). If it's the inside, meh worst case you have a rusty streak down the wall. Or go the hero route and chip around the nails, cut them, and fill with structural patch material or epoxy.

Should we (contractors) do this? Probably not. But sometimes the matts just float and it's better to have an average cover with some nails than a floating matt nowhere near where the engineer wants it.