Hello i am going to be getting a 30x40 garage pad poured soon and I am wondering what is the best way to run your electrical/gas/water underneath the pad before it is poured? i also live were it can get -40c in the winter so the water line cant freeze. Any help would be appreciated
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Pouring a slab for electrical and gas?
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justsam
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If it is 40c in winter, what is it like in summer!
It is best to avoid utilities under the slab. Can you route around the perimeter, and bring them up to enter the building in a "hidden" area that can perhaps be planted with shrubs.
It is best to avoid utilities under the slab. Can you route around the perimeter, and bring them up to enter the building in a "hidden" area that can perhaps be planted with shrubs.
Gas should come up just outside the slab, not under. Electric and water, I would install a really big sleeve for each. PVC conduit for the electric and a big polypropylene pipe to use to pull/push the PEX in after the slab is in place.
superdutymike27
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I agree with both above. Run them around the perimeter and the up a wall or cavity in the wall. There will be a small chance if you or someone else has to cut the slab for some reason you cut through these. I have seen it all to often people never bury these enough in the stone and when the guys are placing the concrete, they walking over these and they have a tendency to push or rise into the concrete slab from all of the foot traffic.
Stay tight to the perimeter.
Stay tight to the perimeter.