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Posted by Joseph Meehan on July 23, 2006, 2:31 pm
Italian wrote:
> This is a very confusing description..
>
> Are you saying that you replaced the 8' foot above ground sonatubes
> (surrounding the poles) with a 16"x16" solid concrete "block" around
> each poll? Generally sonotubes are mounted above a footing and all
> poured at one time.
> Are the poles set into footings?
> How far are the poles into the ground?
> How many poles are there?
> Is this all surrouned by a slab?
> What type of roof will be on this?
> The 16x16 box is virtually usless if it is just above ground around
> the poles even if it is on top of a slab around the poles. If it is
> in the ground (like a footing) how deep is it? The rebar issue is
> the least of your worries if those poles are not in footings or in
> the ground far enough you may have shifting of the building.
> As far as cracking and such we pour concrete with more steel in it
> than you can believe and it still cracks where it is not supposed to,
> it is a consequense of modern formulations in todays concrete.
> This is not a huge structure 26x26 dont panic answer my questions and
> I'll let you konw what you can do to fix it, you may be ok or close to
> it.
>
>
> Roger wrote:
>> I am building a 26'X26' pole barn. It calls for 8' sonatubes. I
>> instead built 16"X16" boxes with extra rough cut pine i had left
>> over. I did did not use rebar in the boxes when i poured the
>> concrete. Will this be a big problem for me in the future????
I don't think there is any problem changing from 8 inch sonatubes to form
built pier assuming it is the same area and size as what was called for, but
I would not eliminate rebar if it was specified.
Your message was well it just does not seem to make sense replacing as 8
foot sonatube with a 1.5 ft x 1.5 ft box of concrete.
--
Joseph Meehan
Dia duit
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