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- Help with Sonotube and Piers - DIY Home Improvement Forum
The way the concrete store guy described it, I should be able to install the sonotube in such a way that only the part showing above grade is nice and round and smooth the concrete poured below the surface would be in contact with the ground soil Only the part above ground level, and maybe a foot below, would be in contact with the sonotube
- 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
- Sonotubes and posts centering - DIY Home Improvement Forum
Sonotubes and posts centering 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
- Fence Posts - Sonotubes? - DIY Home Improvement Forum
The 12" sonotube was questionable with the 6" post Best case scenario would be a 4" post with the 12" tube or a 14-16" tube with the 6" post Predicating a sonotube size based on the limitation of a drill bit size is the wrong way to engineer the job Ron
- 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
- 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
- Proper sizing for deck footings - DIY Home Improvement Forum
If you use a bigfoot sonotube, the bottom of the tube flares outward, so the area of the bottom is larger than the tube With standard sonotubes, the hole is excavated a little larger than the tube, the tube is inserted and filled with concrete (and rebar if required), and the tube is typically left in place
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