Concrete Beam And Block Floor System

Beam and block floor installation can be completed by unskilled labour or provided to your groundworkers to fit.

Concrete beam and block floor system. High levels of rigid insulation can be installed over the beam and block floor. Beam and block flooring is renowned for being fast cheap and simple to install requiring no special constructions skills and is the cheapest way to build a highly durable and solid floor. However if eps blocks are used the floor system can achieve excellent thermal performance. Find out more about our beam and block floor solutions.

Suspended concrete floors do not creak shrink or bounce. Varying the concrete beam centres during construction offers a quick and economical solution for a wide. Alternatively our experienced team can install the beam and block flooring. Poundfield manufacture high quality concrete beam and block floors to exact required lengths and in depths of 150mm 175mm and 225mm.

Spans of up to 7 metres can be achieved depending on loading conditions. Resistance to passage of sound the inherent mass and damping qualities of concrete give beam and block flooring construction a good noise reduction. Consisting of pre stressed concrete beams with standard building blocks laid between mexboro s beam and block flooring systems provide an economical quick and flexible choice with the following benefits. A beam and block floor is a durable concrete floor system that provides good fire resistance as well as helping to reduce noise transmittance through floors.

Block and beam flooring has become an increasingly popular choice when it comes to floor structures. The system consists of inverted pre stressed t beams with either lightweight aircrete thermalite or dense and medium dense aggregate block infill. These contain unique features that many other similar products on the market do not. Beam and block is a robust solution for cost effective suspended floors.

The beam and block system by argex developed in the 1960s used blocks made of lightweight concrete based on argex granules of expanded clay which reduced the dead weight of the floor even further up to 50 compared to solid concrete floors and enhanced its thermal insulating properties. Minimum site preparation just remove topsoil and vegetation to provide a minimum 75mm void or 150mm for clay between underside of floor and ground surface. Beam block floor system for commercial and domestic use beam and block construction overcomes many onsite difficulties such as costly excavation and consolidation of backfill prior to the placing of oversite concrete. The traditional beam and block flooring system involves laying precast prestressed concrete floor beams across or between walls which are then infilled with concrete blocks.

They are relatively easy to install and provide a safe working platform for the rest of the build. It is suitable for use on ground and upper floors in all kinds of construction from residential to commercial buildings. Benefits of concrete beam block floor systems.