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- Footings necessary for sonotubes? - DIY Home Improvement Forum
A footing is required below a sonotube in the situation where the concrete itself can handle the vertical load being placed on it, but the underlying ground can’t support the same load over the same surface area A bigger diameter footing is poured to spread the load over a greater area
- Help with Sonotube and Piers - DIY Home Improvement Forum
I need to pour some 20 inch round concrete piers They need to go 60 inches into the ground and extend 48 inches above ground Some of them only need to extend 24 inches above the ground All the video's I'm seeing on Youtube show folks extending the sonotube all the way to the bottom of
- How level do sonotubes have to be? - DIY Home Improvement Forum
Your sonotubes need to be plumb You check them with a string level, a plumb bob, or a builders level You fill them to the appropriate grade, it doesn't make much difference if the top of the concrete is level, what is important is that you insert the steel bracket in the correct location, and level the top of the bracket This is easy to do, since the bracket support is typically buried at
- 28x40 Cabin Beams on Sonotubes - DIY Home Improvement Forum
Hi everyone, I have a few questions about building a ~28x40 off-grid cabin I've been studying foundation options and we want to go the sonotube pier and beam route - Does it make more sense to get the floor level by raising the sonotube concrete footings to achieve level or to attach a 6x6
- In-Slab Ducting Repair Replacement Options - DIY Home Improvement Forum
Apparently, it was quite common in our area to use metal impregnated fiber Sonotube as in-slab ducting in the 70's when this house was built From the looks of it in the videos and the rust spots, it sure does look like decent galvanized ducting to me but I haven't actually had a chunk in my hand to see
- Sonotubes and posts centering - DIY Home Improvement Forum
Sonotubes and posts centering Tags carport concrete pier foundation sonotube Jump to Latest 9 8K views 28 replies 6 participants last post by PBR Street Gang May 22, 2023 C
- Sonotube height - DIY Home Improvement Forum
I was wondering how high you can extend a 10 inch sonotube off the ground I was thinking of extending a 10 inch column 6 feet above grade It will go 3 feet below the ground to a footing I'll be using this to support the center of a long deck stairway I like the rock solid feel of
- Rebar for Bigfoot footers - DIY Home Improvement Forum
My engineer spec'd normal footers and then sonotubes for my deck build I am going to be using bigfoot and sonotubes to do a mono pour instead I will be using a combination of 36" and 28" bigfoots How do I go about creating the rebar structure inside the bigfoot sonotube structure? I
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