January/February 2007
by Robert Hatch
How to excavate, lay out, and pour concrete pier foundations.
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Designing Pier Footings How to excavate, lay out, and pour concrete pier foundations Robert Hatch I've built lots of masonry pier foundations. I used to either stack cinder blocks or pour concrete into site-made wooden forms. Then, a few decades ago, the job got a lot easier with the invention of the Sonotube pier form, which is now an industry standard. In this article, I'll give some basic tips for working with tubes, along with some unusual ways of using them that I've learned over the years. Some Rules of Thumb Before laying out a run of piers, I determine
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