{"id":864,"date":"2020-12-16T05:06:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T05:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatblueprint.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2023-04-14T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:26:02","slug":"can-a-concrete-slab-be-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatblueprint.com\/can-a-concrete-slab-be-moved\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Concrete Slab Be Moved?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Concrete slabs are a part of a building that will always be there no matter what. Even if it’s just a one-story house or even if it’s just for a paved outdoor space, a slab is important because it functions as the supporting component for floors, which allows for activity in built environments and ensures that the loads from both human and non-human activity will be distributed evenly on a surface area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There may be times in which your slab may be in a location that is far from ideal. If this is the scenario you are experiencing, then the question now is if you can move your concrete slab somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No, you cannot have a concrete slab moved. A concrete slab is an integral part of a building, to which most if not all other structural components are connected to. Moving a concrete slab will require you to deconstruct the upper levels above the slab and remove the foundational levels below.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the day, this is extremely inefficient and far from ideal, but other methods are achieving the same results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to learn more about why you cannot move a concrete slab and what you can do instead, or if you just want a brief explanation as to what a concrete slab actually does, and then read more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A concrete slab is the horizontal plane component of a building on which users can do their activities. In simpler terms, a concrete slab acts as the flooring of a building, which is especially true for the upper levels of a structure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What makes the slabs so essential in the building is because it is the first structural component that is actually built and is repeatedly built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The foundation slab, the first part of a building that is built, is the base for the foundation column. The foundation column then supports the on-ground slab. The on-ground slab then supports the columns that hold up the building by carrying the upper-level slabs’ forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concrete slabs are, in fact, the heaviest and biggest, in terms of resources used, building component because it is the component that actually receives the load before transmitting it to the other structural components.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why concrete slabs are built in such an extremely durable way. Slabs are designed to be able to handle stress well beyond what they were intended to handle. This is a practice to prepare the building if anything were to happen, such as an earthquake or misusage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Attempting to move a concrete slab is near impossible. It is extremely inefficient because the entire point of the construction methodology for the concrete slab is to ensure that it does not move. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The only movement that the slab should experience is some initial sinking and settling into the ground, which is always accounted for. Aside from this, there is no reason why a concrete slab should move at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you find yourself in a scenario where you have to move your concrete slab, it only means that something went wrong along either the planning process or the construction process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most likely, the only reason why you would be forced to move your concrete slab is that the slab protrudes from the setback, which is a violation of the building code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If a building official notices that a concrete slab and its construction could end up resulting in a building wall or component extruding past the setback point, then it is within their power and jurisdiction to have that slab moved to make it compliant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If ever you find yourself in the scenario in which you have to make adjustments to your concrete slab, which again should not be common and should not happen in the first place, what you can do instead is to reduce certain dimensions of the slab and extend the other dimensions of the slab to technically move it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In doing structural computations for slabs, they are usually divided into different areas and are assigned different loads based on those areas and the locations of footings\/columns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since you are moving the center of the slab by reducing certain dimensions and adding certain dimensions, you would have moved the slab so that it could still hold the building’s structural components while sufficiently meeting its structural requirements and standards.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Note: The advice above is assuming that the moving of the concrete slab is taking place during construction. It also assumes that only the on-ground slab has been built so far.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nA brief overview of concrete slabs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Why you can\u2019t move a concrete slab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Proper planning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What you can do instead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n