[TheForge] Concrete forms OT, but important... for me anyhow.

[Andrew Vida]

Care to elaborate on this?

Never heard of speedblock.  Are you talking about 12" hollow block and 
filling the voids with concrete and rebar?



On 8/11/14, 1:29 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> Did our foundation  and retaining wall forming using 12" speedblock, lots of rebar, drystacked with surface bonding cement instead of forms. Poured the first 4' lift, vibrated to get the air out and pumped the top 4 ' a few hours later.
> Faster and cheaper than forms and required less skill.
> Backfilled over the french drain using junk styrofoam with a foot of leechrock on top. They were real eager to get rid of the bailed styro, no charge, even helped me load.
>
> On Aug 11, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
> Irregular on the bottom of the existing footings.
>
> I could cut the outside of the footings as well, but worry whether what remained (about 11-12" total width) would be strong enough to support the current load.
>
>
> On 8/11/14, 4:56 AM, Larry Brown wrote:
>> Maybe see about renting them and just make the filler pieces  where it is
>> irregular?
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