Life Paints
http://www.lifepaint.com/
a 1.5 gallon kit covers 200 - 300 sf and is about $99. its industrial strength and has a streghtn over 11,000 psi. concrete is about 3000 psi.
the calculator used 40 psf live load a 10 dead load - equivalent to a residential floor load (is says floor joist) - so if he uses it for a ceiling joist with light attic storage he will be fine. just make sure if they have any camber to install it up.
one, add a 10 GA welded wire mesh for steel reinforcing in the middle of the slab as you pour it. or #3 repars at 12 iches oc.
otherwise 4 inches is fine. since the fountain is 1200 # devided by a 16 square foot footprint your soil pressure is only 75 pounds per square foot - far less than...
all concrete cracks......
dont worry at all about hairline cracks being structural. control and expansion joints can be sued to limit and control cracking.
engineers design concrete on the theory that it will crack. The steel is there to resist any tension and the concrete resists the...
more important than the epoxy you use is the prep work
unless your existing concrete is new or very clean, the best method is to have it bead blasted before you pain it.
drywall, textrure, paint, pull down ladder, lighting and electrical, new doors, pull down ladder, cabinets and bench and epoxy floor. pretty happy with it. :)