Okay, so the contractor showed up this morning, and they have been
jackhammering the basement floor to open up a 2' wide trench along the
outside walls.  Last I looked, they were more than half done
trenching.

From the concrete chunks they have been dumping in their truck, the
concrete floor is about five inches thick.  But, to my astonishment,
it's just concrete, no rebar.

How would a concrete basement floor stay nice and flat for 50+ years
without any reinforcement?  Don't they use rebar even in sidewalks?

                    Signed, Never Actually Poured Any Concrete Myself,
Just Helped Install Forms, And That Was More Than Three Decades Ago in
Arizona

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Washtenaw County Clerk & Register of Deeds, http://ewashtenaw.org
The Political Graveyard, http://politicalgraveyard.com
P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor, MI 48106

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