Filler Roof Slab

The size of grid depends on structural design and size of filler material.

Filler roof slab.

By reducing the quantity and weight of material the roof become less expensive yet retains the strength of the conventional slab. Filler slab roof construction. One way to make a boring and expensive concrete slab sexy lighter and cheaper is to use a filler slab. Leak proofing filler slabs.

The filler slab is based on the principle that for roofs which are simply supported the upper part of the slab is subjected to compressive forces and the lower part of the slab experience tensile forces. Filler slab technology is a simple and a very innovative technology for a slab construction. The filler material. With proper supervision and workmanship leaks can be avoided.

A filler slab is where we replace a portion of concrete in the tension zone of the slab with inexpensive lightweight filler materials such as clay roof mangalore tiles bricks earthen pots coconut shells glass bottles or any other creative material you can think of. Once the shuttering is done the reinforcements are laid in grid form. For example grid of 35cm x 50cm is used for magalore tile as filler material and grid of 45cm x 45cm is used for clay pots of 40cm diameter filler. The filler material thus is not a structural part of the slab.

Filler slab is based on the concrete portions and instead of placing filler material there and is one cost effective roofing system. The chance of a leak in a filler slab is much the same as the conventional r c c slab.