In what’s become almost an annual rite of passage, concrete contractors ... form and as the principal reinforcement for the slab. Historically, welded wire mesh fabric has been used as a ...

Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics recently introduced FibaCrete Concrete Reinforcement Mesh ... It is ideal as a replacement to wire mesh for use in sidewalks, patio pads, concrete countertops ...

The blocks are then reinforced with rebar ... tubing is placed on top of the wire mesh. Once the tubing is pressure-tested, the four-to-six-inch concrete slab is poured. When building with poured ...

Q: Tim, my builder is telling me to forget about using reinforcing ... use steel in concrete slabs! You can use either 1/2 inch diameter steel rods in concrete or rolls of steel mesh that look ...

and they tell me the slab was poured all at once, according to code. The concrete contractor did the pour but the prep work was done by the builder -- who installed welded-wire mesh rather than rebar.

"Until recently, steel was the only reinforcement ... concrete reinforcement. BasaMesh™, a line of composite geogrid mesh products made from Basalt fiber, is intended to replace Welded Wire ...