Sono tubes,,, round cardboard tubes to pour concrete for piers and after concrete dry tear off cardboard.
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Sono tubes,,, round cardboard tubes to pour concrete for piers and after concrete dry tear off cardboard.
They are hard “cardboard” forms that you pour concrete into for pilings. I place my posts on top of them.Quote:
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Thank You - Learned something new today.
I got the sonotubes in place today and mostly filled up the holes surrounding them. Rain arrived earlier than expected, so I did not 100% get all of the holes filled and I did not get a chance to cut the sono tubes down to the level I want them to be. They are buried four feet down. I covered them up with bags and plywood. Rain is in the forecast for the next two days, so hopefully Saturday I will finish some of the prep work and pour concrete.
I have some of my metal roofing already from my last year’s shelter. I will have to cut that into smaller lengths and also buy four new panels.
I am likely a month away from being completely finished.
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A friend shared with me this picture of a totally different structure, but it sort has a full length cupola, something that would be fairly easy to build and for my open design might work. I would cap the ends.
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Today I ordered the rest of my metal roof.
Tomorrow I pour concrete in the sono tubes. It will be a few more days before I put my posts on them.
Poured the concrete for the four posts today.
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I decided that I will pour an entirely new pad and scrap the old one. Further reading on pouring new concrete over old, does not bode well for the longevity of the pad. I will make it slightly larger than the old one. This time I will add some wire mesh to the pad.
As soon as my friend with the tractor comes over and takes away the old pad and grades the area where the new pad and deck will be going, I will pour the new pad, then start working on the beams that will go on the posts.
The old concrete pad was removed today and my friend graded the area pretty level. I will have a few touch ups tomorrow with the rake.
I also made the form for the concrete pour tomorrow. I still have to level it and stake it. I made it a little different with a 2x6, flat board at the bottom of the form. I did this because I want my deck, to be perfectly level with the pad.
I checked the level on the four piers I poured yesterday and they were perfectly level both ways, which is a good start.
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It was a hot day, but I poured 25 bags worth of concrete into the form for the pad. 24 likely would have been enough, but I wanted to make sure it was full. It is plenty thick enough for essentially what is a heat barrier to prevent any root fires (unlikely in March and April) and a level surface to build the evaporator on. I made it 4 inches wider and three inches longer than the old one. As mentioned it will be surrounded with a large wooden deck.
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We may put up the posts and beams tomorrow. After that will be the trusses.
I ordered two more roof panels, so my roof will be 15 feet long, overhanging the posts by 2.5’.
I figured out how I will build the cupola. Too hard to explain, but will take pictures when I get to that point. It will be 4 feet long and will have a 10” opening.
I am trying to buy some used double wall 8” stove pipe. New stuff is uber expensive. Finding flashing for double wall 8” stovepipe for the roof is also not easy. I sure hope the base stack is worth it.
I put a high temp boot for my pipe to go through on my roof. You can cut it to size. It's made for the double wall pipe. Menards was the store of purchase. i don;t know if you have those in Canada or not. They also were fairly reasonable on the double wall pipe.
Yes we have those. Did you put any flashing on top of the boot, or just the boot?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pdiamond
I was thinking that I could get away with one 36” piece of double wall pipe, but it is so close to the length I need, I may need two. They are around $300 new for a 36” piece. That seems terribly expensive. I keep thinking I am looking in the wrong place for them.