You can do a lot with dry mixed concrete which will set all by itself over
time. Setting wood in the ground is dodgy at best but cement will wick water
right to the wood. then once rotten getting it back out to put in a new one is
a lot tougher. You can dump crushed rock into the bottom of the hole to stand
the post in which should help keep the feet dry so to speak then pack sand or
soil around the post to keep it upright.
Dan, you will be able to change your posts any time you need and because they
are sitting on a footing above ground you should get very long life out of them.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jewel
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Posts and concrete.
I use the cement mix where you just pour it into the hole. It says on the
instructions on the bags * here that you put the water in first and then
pour the cement and agregate mix in. When you put the water in the hole,
you pour it down the * sides of the hole so that they are wet.
I always ram the cement, though I don't think that that is required. It
just makes me feel that the compacted cement will be stronger.
The concrete will set in a quarter to half an hour.
Jewel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Rossi" <d...@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:16 PM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Posts and concrete.
> Dale,
>
> Around here it is pretty standard to just stand a 4X4 up in the hole,
> dump in the dry cement and then pour water on it. As a matter of fact,
> those are the instructions on some bags of ready mix. I didn't believe it
> until Teresa read it to me, and I checked the quikcrete web site to
> confirm.
>
> That's not how I did my deck posts though. I mixed the concrete first
> then poured full footers and sunk a J bolt in the top and bolted on a post
> bracket.
>
> I don't think the guy who did the previous deck really cared much. There
> wasn't much concrete in the holes. It was a ground level deck and a lot
> of the joists were sitting on the ground anyway.
>
>
>
> --
> Blue skies.
> Dan Rossi
> Carnegie Mellon University.
> E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu
> Tel: (412) 268-9081
>
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