Curb on monolithic slab

[ejm1961Tbird]

Planning a 30x40 with a monolithic slab. I would like to have a short curb on the slab to keep water off the sill plate and base of the stick built wall. Can you just run one or two courses of block on the perimeter of the slab and built the walls on the blocks? Is there a better way to go? Thanks, Ed

 

[walrus]

Planning a 30x40 with a monolithic slab. I would like to have a short curb on the slab to keep water off the sill plate and base of the stick built wall. Can you just run one or two courses of block on the perimeter of the slab and built the walls on the blocks? Is there a better way to go? Thanks, Ed

I put rebar in my slab to stick up into my one course of blocks, then I filled the blocks and put anchor bolts to tie the wall plate down.

 

[Harleyguy]

I have used one row of blocks many times and built on top of that. I use L -shaped 1/2 anchor bolts and cement them into the blocks. This is used to anchor the wall to the block.

 

[Stuart in MN]

I put rebar in my slab to stick up into my one course of blocks, then I filled the blocks and put anchor bolts to tie the wall plate down.

They did the same thing when my garage was built. It's going on close to 20 years now and it hasn't fallen over yet.

 

[kbs2244]

A good concrete guy can build the curb in the pour.
One of the local garage builders brags about it.
But it a lot of extra work and the row of block is easier and works just as well.

 

[brownbagg]

if you do three coarse that 2 ft so if you bougth 2x4 8ft that give you the ten foot ceiling.

 

[oldwino]

It's really not hard to form the curb to be monolithic with the slab...set your edge forms to top of curb height, set an inside form at the same elevation as top of curb inset 6" or whatever you want the curb width to be and support with stakes and cleats for spreaders. be sure to install longer anchor bolts to get into slab, not just into curb.

 

[ejm1961Tbird]

Thanks everybody, I appreciate the feedback. Regards, Ed