How to calculate the amount of knitting wire
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:50 am
Our article describes the nuances of building a pile-grillage foundation.
Important: plastic ties become brittle at low temperatures. If powerful impact loads are expected when pouring concrete (for example, pouring a foundation from a great height (basement walls), large volumes, etc.), then the clamps, due to their lower strength than binding wire, may break. Therefore, first think, and then do.
Tying reinforcement with plastic clamps is primarily architect data for relatively small volumes of work: when concreting structures such as small-section strip foundations, piles, reinforced belts, lintels, grillages, etc.
Large foundations, complex and important structures with many knots should be tied with wire. This is more reliable and cheaper, because in terms of the number of knots, the knitting wire is cheaper than hundreds and thousands of ties.
Also remember that the purpose of ties and binding wire is to ensure the specified geometry of the reinforcement frame when pouring concrete. Subsequently (after the solution has hardened), ties and wire assemblies do not participate in the operation of the structure.
In addition to the question of how and with what to tie the reinforcement, any novice developer thinks about how much knitting wire to buy.
shusharuFORUMHOUSE user
I am making a slab foundation measuring 12.5x12.5 m. I need to tie reinforcement in two rows of 200x200 mm. Around the perimeter and under the load-bearing walls 100x100 mm. When ordering reinforcement, I was told that approximately 12 kg of wire is needed to tie 1 ton of reinforcement. Is this true?
To understand this issue, you need to know the initial data. These are:
Important: plastic ties become brittle at low temperatures. If powerful impact loads are expected when pouring concrete (for example, pouring a foundation from a great height (basement walls), large volumes, etc.), then the clamps, due to their lower strength than binding wire, may break. Therefore, first think, and then do.
Tying reinforcement with plastic clamps is primarily architect data for relatively small volumes of work: when concreting structures such as small-section strip foundations, piles, reinforced belts, lintels, grillages, etc.
Large foundations, complex and important structures with many knots should be tied with wire. This is more reliable and cheaper, because in terms of the number of knots, the knitting wire is cheaper than hundreds and thousands of ties.
Also remember that the purpose of ties and binding wire is to ensure the specified geometry of the reinforcement frame when pouring concrete. Subsequently (after the solution has hardened), ties and wire assemblies do not participate in the operation of the structure.
In addition to the question of how and with what to tie the reinforcement, any novice developer thinks about how much knitting wire to buy.
shusharuFORUMHOUSE user
I am making a slab foundation measuring 12.5x12.5 m. I need to tie reinforcement in two rows of 200x200 mm. Around the perimeter and under the load-bearing walls 100x100 mm. When ordering reinforcement, I was told that approximately 12 kg of wire is needed to tie 1 ton of reinforcement. Is this true?
To understand this issue, you need to know the initial data. These are: