Little help figuring out how to "bell" my piers.

[5030]

Exactly. It makes it harder to lift. and harder to sink.



except code here is 16' hole with a 36" bell. :confused2:


Now how the **** do you do that.

Hopefully not a 16 (foot deep hole) with a 36" bell. That would take one heck of a lot of extensions on an auger......

Be more like a dug well......:laughing:

Depending on depth, it would be possible but if it's to below frost line, at least here it's 48", would be about impossible.

We crumb out to where it 'looks' belled.

While it's code here, I've never seen an inspector peering in a hole, ever.

 

[BoFuller]

At almost a yard of concrete a piece that's flipping nuts.
let alone $$$$$$ :confused2:

I hear that, but it's what the county is requiring.

 

[5030]

At almost a yard of concrete a piece that's flipping nuts.



let alone $$$$$$ :confused2:

I'd say that all depends on what the pier's are supporting.

 

[BoFuller]

I'd say that all depends on what the pier's are supporting.

2 story log home for me - that's a lot of weight!

 

[5030]

2 story log home for me - that's a lot of weight!

I surmised it was a habitable structure and not a fence post or deck structure. I just let you fill in the blank.......:thumbsup:

 

[Keller]

Hopefully not a 16 (foot deep hole) with a 36" bell. That would take one heck of a lot of extensions on an auger......

Be more like a dug well......:laughing:

Depending on depth, it would be possible but if it's to below frost line, at least here it's 48", would be about impossible.

We crumb out to where it 'looks' belled.

While it's code here, I've never seen an inspector peering in a hole, ever.

lol sorry. 16" wide 36" deep with a 36" bell is what the county code reads for a "pole" barn. but even as I type that is sounds unreasonable.



but that's what the want. :laughing:

 

[Keller]

2 story log home for me - that's a lot of weight!

For a home I can see.



I thought you were talking about a random pole barn :confused2:

 

[tommu56]

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[Duffster]

Exactly. It makes it harder to lift. and harder to sink.



except code here is 16' hole with a 36" bell. :confused2:


Now how the **** do you do that.

36" seems pretty unreasonable. Takes a dang big shed to need it that big.

Here we don't fill the entire hole with crete, just the bottom thus making a "bell". Most don't even do that much. They just set the post on a cookie.

 

[EddieWalker]

I can see them being useful in sand, but have my doubts as to how effective they are when you just compact the soild around them after digging out a hole big enough to pout the form into there, then backfilling and compacting. Years after the soils is backfilled, it's still a sponge and where all the water goes.

Eddie