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Your slab-edge prop check

Hi Joe and Corey. This page walks you through what Sid and a manufacturer need to see about your prop. Skip anything you don't know. At the end you'll review your answers, download a short report and email it to Sid yourself.

Expected time: 15–20 minutes
No drawings or CAD needed

1. Before we begin

Safety first. These are simple observations of your prototype, not a load test or a temporary-works check.

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Do not load-test the prop to failure, stand on it, or work under a live form to take a reading. Take measurements on the ground or on a bench. On site, follow your temporary-works procedures and your temporary works coordinator. Skip anything you are not comfortable doing.

What we understand from your email

A steel slab-edge formwork prop, about 700 mm high: a perforated upright with pin height adjustment, a threaded bar with wing nuts running through a pivot bracket, on a base plate with fixing holes. The aim is less wasted timber when propping slab edges, with a possible scaled-up version as push-pull props for wall systems.

Base plate→Adjustable upright→Threaded push bar→Timber edge form

These are starting notes from the mockups. Please correct anything that is wrong.

I understand. I will only take safe, simple measurements and will not load-test the prop for this form.

No tools? That's fine. A tape measure and bathroom scales cover most of it. Leave anything you don't know blank. An honest blank is more useful than a guess.

2. You and the product

Simple facts about you, the prop and where you want to take it.

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Your name(s) *

Your email address *

Company / location

Date of observations

Where is the prop today?

How many prototypes exist?

Who made the prototypes?

First market

First batch size you have in mind

Target cost to make, per prop (£)

Expected selling or hire price, per prop (£)

What do you want most right now?

3. How it is used on site

Tell us what the prop has to do in real use.

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Slab edge / form height (mm)

Spacing between props along the edge (mm)

How is the base held in place?

What does it stand on?

What does it replace today?

Expected uses before it is scrapped

Describe a typical pour with the prop

4. The prop itself

What it is made of and how it fits together. Mockup values are fine if no prototype is made yet.

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Upright section

Steel grade

Base plate thickness (mm)

Pin hole spacing on the upright (mm)

Lowest working height (mm)

Highest working height (mm)

Threaded bar type

Bar diameter (mm)

Height pins

How the parts are joined

Finish

Weight of one complete prop (kg)

Anything else about the build

5. Simple checks (only if safe)

Bench or ground checks only. No loading to failure.

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How to check

Use a tape measure, bathroom scales and your hand. Do each check at the highest working height, with the bar fully wound out, because that is where play and bending are worst.

Wobble at the top of the upright by hand (mm)

Free play in the bar and bracket (mm)

Time to set and adjust one prop (minutes)

Do pins or wing nuts loosen during a pour?

What did you notice?

Indicative only: the push of fully fluid concrete on the form, shared between props. Real loads also include vibration, people and impacts, so a temporary works designer sets the actual design load.

6. Share visual evidence safely

Cloud links are best (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive). Share only what you are happy to send by email.

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Mockups or renders (https link)

Photos of the prototype or on site (https link)

Short video of setting or adjusting it (https link)

Link access

Hold back drawings and CAD for now. Sid has sent a mutual NDA. Detailed drawings can follow once it is signed.

Anything else Sid should know

7. Next step and consent

You choose what happens next. Nothing is sent from this page.

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After this, would you like Sid to quote a short technical review with a manufacturer?

Any questions for Sid?

Privacy and consent

How this page handles your answers

Your answers stay in your browser. This page does not upload them or send email. When you download the report and email it, your email and cloud providers handle what you choose to share. Standard web hosting may keep access logs (including IP addresses).

TechMC uses your report only to look at your enquiry and discuss next steps, never for public case studies or marketing without your separate permission. Detailed drawings and other confidential material only after the mutual NDA is signed.

I agree to prepare this report and, if I email it, for TechMC to review it for this enquiry.

I will not include confidential drawings before the NDA is signed. I understand this form is not a temporary-works design, load rating or certification.

Next: check your answers, then confirm once more before the report is created. Nothing is sent automatically.

Review your answers once more

Gate 1 of 2: please check the report below. Use “Edit answers” if you want to correct anything.

Review

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✓ Thank you, Joe and Corey.

Now send your downloaded HTML report as an attachment to sid@techmcadvisory.com. The email link below opens a draft, but you must attach the report yourself and press Send.

Find the downloaded file named Riviera_TechMC_Prop_Report_….html in Downloads.
Open your email, address it to sid@techmcadvisory.com, and attach that file.
Check cloud link permissions, then press Send.

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Sid will read your report and come back with his view and, if useful, a quote for a short technical review with a manufacturer.

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