Frost Protection Depth
Frost Protection Depth
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This may sound dumb, but I have to ask it... I'm designing a generator pad that will be constructed in an area with existing concrete paving, 6" thick. Top-of-pad will be 6" above paving, and I have a frost protection depth of 18". Should the frost depth be measured from the top of paving or bottom of paving? (pad 2'-0" thick or 2'-6" thick?).






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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Dik
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Like a very practical, experienced professor I had back in the day used to say:
"Concrete...why do we use this S#$@? Because it's cheap!!!"
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"...students of traffic are beginning to realize the false economy of mechanically controlled traffic, and hand work by trained officers will again prevail." - Wm. Phelps Eno, ca. 1928
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