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Bosun Kerbs Installation Guide

The Bosun Precast Kerb Installation Guide outlines the installation standards based on SANS 1200MK and British standards for precast concrete kerbs. Key recommendations include using a 50mm thick bedding layer, ensuring a solid concrete foundation, and proper jointing with expansion provisions. The guide emphasizes the importance of correct installation to ensure durability and prevent failures, while also promoting the use of specialist handling equipment for safety.

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Bosun Kerbs Installation Guide

The Bosun Precast Kerb Installation Guide outlines the installation standards based on SANS 1200MK and British standards for precast concrete kerbs. Key recommendations include using a 50mm thick bedding layer, ensuring a solid concrete foundation, and proper jointing with expansion provisions. The guide emphasizes the importance of correct installation to ensure durability and prevent failures, while also promoting the use of specialist handling equipment for safety.

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Kerbs

Installation
Guide

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BOSUN PRECAST KERB INSTALLATION GUIDE
The content of this guideline is largely based on SANS 1200MK, the official South African
National Standard for the installation of precast concrete kerbs. As SANS 1200MK has last
been updated in 1983, we have also included key points from the British installation
standards for precast concrete kerbs.

What SANS 1200MK says in brief:

Precast concrete kerbs shall be laid and bedded on a 50mm thick layer of bedding material, placed
on the compacted subbase or other formation layer to suit the designated levels of the finished
road. Bedding material shall consist of crushed stone, cinders, slag, sand, or other approved porous
material having a maximum particle size of 13.2mm.

The kerbs and channels shall be laid with close joints (of thickness not exceeding 10 mm) of 3:1
sand:cement mortar on the ends, and neatly pointed with a pointing trowel. Provision shall he made
for expansion joints of width at least 12mm at intervals not exceeding 20m.

After the grouting of kerb joints has been completed, the kerbs shall be backed with well-punned
concrete of specified strength 15 MPa and the space behind the backing shall be backfilled.

From this, we see that the specification is not clear and sufficient. This is also echoed by all the
broken kerbs and failed installations we see in South Africa. Kerbs are supposed to be infrastructure
and should last a lifetime. It must therefore also be installed to last a lifetime. For this reason,
Bosun consulted various other specifications for the installation of concrete kerbs. Of these, the
British Standard have the most synergy with our construction methods.

What the British standard says in brief:

The kerb foundation must be supported, either on an extension to the underlying pavement
sub-layers or, for thin pavements (e.g., edgings on pedestrian footways), directly on compacted
subgrade. The depth of the unit and that of the pavement construction will determine on which
pavement layer the kerb foundation will sit.

A good concrete foundation to support the kerb is essential and must be sufficient for the intended
pedestrian or vehicular traffic. It must be able to spread and transmit the applied vehicular wheel
loads to the underlying support layer without overstressing the layer. The foundation must also be
capable of resisting any shear forces induced by overrun.

Kerbs require bedding to provide even support and prevent vehicular overrun from damaging the
unit by inducing bending stresses. The units may be bedded directly on a freshly mixed concrete
kerb foundation, or on mortar on top of a hardened concrete foundation.

Units should be haunched with backing concrete to support them and prevent horizontal displace-
ment.

Bosun recommends the following when it comes to the installation of kerbs:

1. Compacted layer works should extend at least 100mm behind the kerb.
2. Construct a 150mm thick concrete foundation on top of the prepared layer works. This
foundation spreads and transmits the applied vehicular wheel loads to the underlying support
layers without overstressing the foundation.
3. Laying the kerbs - good adhesion of kerbs to the concrete foundation is crucial. There are two
possible methods to ensure this:

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Option A (recommended) - Install the kerbs on a Option B - Install the kerbs directly on the concrete
40mm thick bedding layer of fresh mortar (1:3 foundation. In this instance, the concrete used for the
cement, sand ratio) on top of the hardened concrete foundation, should not contain stones larger than
foundation. Kerbs should be laid before the mortar 13mm. Furthermore, ensure the concrete is sufficiently
starts to harden. fluid (wet) to ensure the kerb beds properly.

4. Kerbs must then be haunched with


concrete on the joints at least, but
preferably all along the back of kerbs,
especially if they are intended to carry
heavy vehicular traffic.
5. Kerbs should then be jointed with fresh
mortar. Provision should be made for
12mm expansion joints every 20
metres. Should block paving be
installed behind the kerbs, expansion
joints must be filled with approved
expandable material. When gaps are
left between kerbs, the paving
The concrete foundation (bed) must be suffciently wet when
layer works will seep through the
installing kerbs without a mortar bedding layer.
gaps, causing settlement and other
failures of the pavement.
6. After the work specified above has been completed, spaces and voids must be backfilled with
approved material to pavement or shoulder level, as applicable. It should be backfilled in layers
not exceeding 100 mm and each layer should be watered and thoroughly compacted to at least
90% of modified AASHTO maximum density, before the next layer is placed. The compacted
backfill must extend for a distance of 0.5m behind the kerb face.

Handling Equipment
Kerbs generally weigh in excess of
100kg per unit. Bosun actively
promotes the use of specialist
handling equipment to protect
workers on site and improve
efficiency. These tools are available
from Cretesol. Scan the code to view these products.

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CONTACT DETAILS

GAUTENG NORTH WEST EASTERN CAPE


Tel: 011 310 1176 Tel: 012 250 1711 Tel: 041 405 0100
Fax: 011 310 1178 Fax: 012 250 1708 Fax: 041 405 0199
Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Physical Address: Physical Address: Physical Address:


Corner Cresset & Musket Roads 1892 Pendoring Street Corner Neptune Road & MR435
Midrand Industrial Park Brits Industrial Area Coega Industrial Development Zone
Midrand Brits Port Elizabeth

Postal Address: Postal Address: Postal Address:


PO Box 7313 PO Box 637 PO Box 61176
Halfway House Brits Bluewater Bay
1685 0250 6212

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Disclaimer

While every effort is made by Bosun to ensure the accuracy of information in the Kerbs Installation Guide, Bosun makes no
representations or warranties, or in any way guarantees the accuracy or completeness of any information including, but not limited
to: quantities, dimensions, or any specifications (including the installation of the products) provided in the Kerbs Installation Guide.
The customer accordingly indemnifies Bosun and holds it harmless against all and any loss (direct, indirect or consequential),
liability, actions, suits, proceedings, costs, demands and damages of all and every kind of nature, directly or indirectly arising from
any failure, delay, loss, damage or incorrect information arising from the website and the Kerbs Installation Guide.

Version 1, Printed June 2022

www.bosun.co.za

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