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Our resident expert, Cliff Billington is here to answer your burning questions about techniques and correct practices within the concrete industry.
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Cliff is here to help you with your construction conundrums, your precast problems and your building brain-teasers.
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Graham asks:
How do you measure camber on a prestressed concrete floor?

Graham:

Assuming that the units are in place on the building, then one way is to carry out a simple survey by level.
This is rather time consuming and is a two-man operation.

An alternative method is to measure from a datum line. This is easily done using a fishing line stretched out across the units. The advantage of this is that it is quick and simple and can be done by one man.

For further information on cambers and how to measure them, click here for the camber datasheet.

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