Do It Right! Lessons from the field not to be repeated
Approach panels
- Once the deck and approach panel have been poured, some provisions usually have to be made to direct rainwater until the stormwater system has been installed.
- Hopefully, a Contractor only has to learn this lesson once.
- The granular material, sill and approach panel all had to be replaced . . . and it cost a week to do it.
- At first glace, an approach panel
washout can look relatively minor, but upon further review...
- Most often, a small-looking
washout can extend many feet
under the approach panel, and in
some cases, the entire approach
panel has to be replaced.
- In some cases, you wonder how so much sand can be moved overnight!
- Remember, one foot maximum per lift.
- One reason our approach panels settle is because the select granular material is hogged in like this: one-foot lifts, compacted with a roller, with optimum moisture.
- Here, plate tampers and a hose are used.
- Don’t let the pavers sell you more bit than you want!
- In this case, the deck needs to be texture-planed, yet the last 10 feet of the approach panel won’t get touched. Plus, we end up with a pour ride.