We are the experts at making that custom roof slab fast so your excavation is not open to the elements and blocking traffic for more than a day or two.
Ready made roof slab.
Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick.
A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house.
Reinforced concrete slabs are heavier and generate higher seismic forces in an event.
Ready made roof precast roof slabs.
For example the florida based company hurricane proof systems offers a 7 inch 18 centimeter slab of concrete in three layers.
It is designed to carry a load of 100 lb ft2 in addition to its self weight.
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Such slabs left unconnected to walls caused many deaths in the 2005 quake from school roof collapses.
If reinforced concrete were to be reused strong connections would have to be made between roof and walls.
We can help you measure for correct slab dimensions at the jobsite in the morning pour your slab using type iii high early cement mix design that afternoon and deliver the slab the next day.
A concrete roof is exactly what it sounds like.