I hand mixed and poured all my own footings also and will do it with another house next yr. A little work never hurt anyone and is easier on the wallet.
i realize this is a year old but youre tellin me you hand poured all ur footings and they all dried solid to one another? i have tons of free high qualtiy cement pallets at my disposable and would much rather rent a mixer. suggestions?
This is no fair. I just finished a 40 foot retaining wall whose footings I had to mix and shovel in by hand. I did all of it for less than the set up fee for the pump truck, but I sure would have liked to have it pumped over the house into the back yard.
how is this ok?the rebar is not even being held off the ground by chairs? No concrete coverage between the bar and ground. The rebar is worthless in this scenario. This is clearly not an engineered design, just something thrown together by a DIY'er
Tommy Davis It's amazing in a bad way, isn't it? In a country such as the USA, they almost never seem to elevate their mesh or reo so that it is correctly positioned. In Oz we use 'bar chairs' or trench mesh supports. It's so pointless trying to lift mesh or reo when pouring as they're doing here. Why bother putting mesh in at all - it's doing absolutely nothing here!
Visit the website for more how-to videos? Or more how-not-to videos? You could even have used rocks for chairs but chairs are far less expensive than the problems you're going to have with your foundation.
I hand mixed and poured all my own footings also and will do it with another house next yr. A little work never hurt anyone and is easier on the wallet.
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i realize this is a year old but youre tellin me you hand poured all ur footings and they all dried solid to one another? i have tons of free high qualtiy cement pallets at my disposable and would much rather rent a mixer. suggestions?
I thought the footing has to have some depth into the ground.
yes, I hand poured all of them and even used bank run gravel instead of buying sand and stone,
This is no fair. I just finished a 40 foot retaining wall whose footings I had to mix and shovel in by hand. I did all of it for less than the set up fee for the pump truck, but I sure would have liked to have it pumped over the house into the back yard.
Did the Real Estate Board of New York pay you to use this video in their pre-licensing class? Bc they should
I don't understand why you couldn't pour this off a mixer with a chute
alot less time than a wheel barrow too
how is this ok?the rebar is not even being held off the ground by chairs? No concrete coverage between the bar and ground. The rebar is worthless in this scenario. This is clearly not an engineered design, just something thrown together by a DIY'er
Tommy Davis It's amazing in a bad way, isn't it? In a country such as the USA, they almost never seem to elevate their mesh or reo so that it is correctly positioned. In Oz we use 'bar chairs' or trench mesh supports. It's so pointless trying to lift mesh or reo when pouring as they're doing here. Why bother putting mesh in at all - it's doing absolutely nothing here!
This is how must non union companies operate?
Visit the website for more how-to videos? Or more how-not-to videos? You could even have used rocks for chairs but chairs are far less expensive than the problems you're going to have with your foundation.
not a video I would follow to do my own job.
Should make your ass screed and the other guy record for saying the lowest guy on the totem pole.
Who else is here from The CE Shop?Lesson 1: Structure - Footings
HOPE I PASS MY TEST!!!!
Me! Did you pass your test?
Fucking horrible! I do this for a livimg and this is a shit footer!!!!!!