Div. B › Part 9 › 9.18 › 9.18.6 — Ground Cover

9.18.6.1 — Ground Cover in Unheated Crawl Spaces

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(1) Where a crawl space is unheated, a ground cover shall be provided consisting of not less than,
(a) 50 mm of asphalt paving material,
(b) 100 mm of 15 MPa Portland cement concrete,
(c) Type S roll roofing, or
(d) 0.10 mm polyethylene.
(2) Joints in sheet-type ground cover required in Sentence (1) shall be lapped not less than 100 mm and weighted down.
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