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Ready made footings ?
Is there such a thing as a ready made footing ? I am going to be
putting in a deck, here in the north east the requirements are 3 foot deep concrete footings for deck collums, I have mixed concrete before and If I could get some ready made ones loaded on my truck and roll them off where I can have the holes dug it would make life easier! Thanks Ed |
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Ready made footings ?
Ed writes:
Is there such a thing as a ready made footing ? I am going to be putting in a deck, here in the north east the requirements are 3 foot deep concrete footings for deck collums, I have mixed concrete before and If I could get some ready made ones loaded on my truck and roll them off where I can have the holes dug it would make life easier! I don't know, but I'm guessing the detracting issues might be: prohibitively heavy to transport no practical way to backfill around them with dirt tightly enough to make them solid supporting structure without shifting. Poured footing by definition will expand to fit tightly in any hole. -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ |
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Ready made footings ?
Todd H. wrote: Ed writes: Is there such a thing as a ready made footing ? I am going to be putting in a deck, here in the north east the requirements are 3 foot deep concrete footings for deck collums, I have mixed concrete before and If I could get some ready made ones loaded on my truck and roll them off where I can have the holes dug it would make life easier! I don't know, but I'm guessing the detracting issues might be: prohibitively heavy to transport no practical way to backfill around them with dirt tightly enough to make them solid supporting structure without shifting. Poured footing by definition will expand to fit tightly in any hole. -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ And don't forget trying to get a heavy concrete footing straight/level after it's in a hole in the ground, while trying to backfill it Concrete by comparison is easy to float off level. I've never seen it done with prefab. |
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Ready made footings ?
I would be backfilling against a construction tube anyway wouldnt I ?
The ready made could be place on the truck bed and rolled off at location. On 29 Mar 2006 16:27:13 -0600, (Todd H.) wrote: Ed writes: Is there such a thing as a ready made footing ? I am going to be putting in a deck, here in the north east the requirements are 3 foot deep concrete footings for deck collums, I have mixed concrete before and If I could get some ready made ones loaded on my truck and roll them off where I can have the holes dug it would make life easier! I don't know, but I'm guessing the detracting issues might be: prohibitively heavy to transport no practical way to backfill around them with dirt tightly enough to make them solid supporting structure without shifting. Poured footing by definition will expand to fit tightly in any hole. |
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Ready made footings ?
Ed wrote: I would be backfilling against a construction tube anyway wouldnt I ? The ready made could be place on the truck bed and rolled off at location. On 29 Mar 2006 16:27:13 -0600, (Todd H.) wrote: Ed writes: Is there such a thing as a ready made footing ? I am going to be putting in a deck, here in the north east the requirements are 3 foot deep concrete footings for deck collums, I have mixed concrete before and If I could get some ready made ones loaded on my truck and roll them off where I can have the holes dug it would make life easier! I don't know, but I'm guessing the detracting issues might be: prohibitively heavy to transport 3' deep (long) or 3' depth? I bet the latter. Even so, it will be much easier to get everything leveled up if you dig and pour in place. Not very likely that you could dig several holes to exact depth. As for mixing your own or buying pre-made ones... Just dig holes, set your sonotubes and have pre-mix deliver. It will be at most a wash on cost and quite possibly cheaper. Of course you might have to wheel the 'crete from the truck but... Harry K no practical way to backfill around them with dirt tightly enough to make them solid supporting structure without shifting. Poured footing by definition will expand to fit tightly in any hole. |
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PVC Was Ready made footings ?
On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:49:59 GMT, someone wrote:
A freind of mine showed me these footings for deck building that are about about three feet long that are buried in the ground that four x fours are attached to, He says they are up to code and schedule 40 pvc has a enormous weight breaking point, Just wondering if anyone has a opinion on them. Thanks I still think you are confusing piers with footings. And now maybe with forms. Reply to NG only - this e.mail address goes to a kill file. |
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PVC Was Ready made footings ?
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PVC Was Ready made footings ?
Yes they are made from PVC
Jim On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:04:40 GMT, Ed wrote: I would be backfilling against a construction tube anyway wouldnt I ? The ready made could be place on the truck bed and rolled off at location. On 29 Mar 2006 16:27:13 -0600, (Todd H.) wrote: Ed writes: Is there such a thing as a ready made footing ? I am going to be putting in a deck, here in the north east the requirements are 3 foot deep concrete footings for deck collums, I have mixed concrete before and If I could get some ready made ones loaded on my truck and roll them off where I can have the holes dug it would make life easier! I don't know, but I'm guessing the detracting issues might be: prohibitively heavy to transport no practical way to backfill around them with dirt tightly enough to make them solid supporting structure without shifting. Poured footing by definition will expand to fit tightly in any hole. |
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Ready made footings ?
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:04:40 GMT, someone wrote:
I would be backfilling against a construction tube anyway wouldnt I ? The ready made could be place on the truck bed and rolled off at location. You may be lixing terminology here. The "footing" is the lowest part that is in contact with the soil below. For a deck or whatever, you come up from the footing with a pier. You traditionally pour the footing to get a snug fit, the wet concrete fills the entire horizontal area at the bottom of the hole. Then you come up with the pier. It is commonplace for small deck piers to be poured in one operation with the footing, often using a belled (at the bottom) prefab form. But you don't have to have a poured-in-one operation pier & footing. A pier can be concrete block for example. Also, you would not ordinarily backfill until after the top of the pier is secured. I'd think a concern with a precast FOOTING would be snugness to the soil below. But if its is small, and also an application where a little settling would be tolerable, yeah you could do it. But I think you are making too much of the purported advantage, and maybe underestimating the weight. Reply to NG only - this e.mail address goes to a kill file. |
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