Concrete Oversite Floor

As nouns the difference between oversite and oversight is that oversite is a flat solid layer of concrete serving as a base for flooring while oversight is an omission.

Concrete oversite floor.

Something that is left out missed or forgotten. From the early part of the twentieth century it became accepted practice to cover the site of buildings with a layer of concrete some 100 mm thick the concrete oversite or oversite concrete. Oversite concrete is often reffered to as german floor by the laymen others mistook it for dpc however oversite concrete is the mass concrete that you pour to cover the entire lenght and breadth of a building on the ground floor to serve as a source of additional support to the structural stability of a building especially storey buildings. These are laid on top of the inner leaf of the walls sitting on the dpc but with no mortar bed.

In building terms the oversite refers to a layer of concrete that is used to seal the earth and create the ground floor of your house. The floor is made up of precast concrete beams shaped a bit like the rails on a train track. An underlayer of concrete below a slab or other flooring. At the time many ground floors of houses were formed as raised timber floors on oversite concrete with the space below the floor ventilated against.