A handbook of design containing tables, standards and useful information appertaining to the "steelcrete" system (1911)
The Consolidated Expanded Metal Companies · The Consolidated Expanded Metal Companies · leaf 103
ability or resistance to leakages.Whether water-proofing compounds are used or not, nodetail is more important to observe than that all theconcrete should be poured in as nearly one operation aspossible. If it is not possible to do this in one operation,the floor should be made in one and the outer… … 3&fe Figure 37. 110 The concrete should contain no stone larger than three-quarters of an inch in anydimension and the material should be carefully graded so that all voids will be well filled.Good concrete is the cheapest and best waterproofing. It has been demonstrated that aproperly…
