Hardcore for ground floors
Building and Construction · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
What hardcore is, what it does, which materials to use, and how to pack and compact it under a Kenyan house slab.
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- 6 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Ground floors
- Solid versus suspended ground floors
- Ground floors in Kenyan houses
- Preparing the ground for a solid floor
- Hardcore for ground floors
- Blinding over the hardcore
- Laying the damp-proof membrane
- DPC in the wall and DPM in the floor
- The concrete floor slab
- Pouring and levelling the slab
- Curing the floor slab
- Floor finishes on a solid floor
- Constructing a solid ground floor
- Safety when constructing ground floors
- Why solid ground floors matter