CasetÓn

It is an expanded polystyrene block of adjustable size to meet the dimensions required by the design; it can be cut to fit any size, and it is supplied ready to be installed. It is mainly used as a lightening element in reticulated or one-way nerved ceiling tiles and mezzanines; it is also used in reticulated slabs as foundations or as underground filling material.

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What is the installation process for a reticulated slab with a lacunar base?

A frame similar to a solid slab is installed, then a mesh is placed over the frame, on top of the mesh the main steel reinforcement is placed where the slab's shortest gap is, then the longer steel is placed going the opposite way forming a reticulate made of steel which then will be filled with expanded polystyrenes lacunarias and over these, a steel electric welded mesh is placed to eventually pour the concrete.

What are casetón's main advantages?

Among its main advantages, we find that it is a lightening element for ceiling slabs and mezzanines to preserve clearings, it has great amble capacity due to the rigidity of being reticulate-nerved, it is a low-cost building system, there is a wide array of casetón sizes available, its building flexibility and time-saving characteristics, its heat and sound insulating properties, it is a structurally light system, it has great dimensional stability, and there is the opportunity of hiding joints inside the slab's thickness.