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I build a 2x6 form on grade, fill the entire hole with concrete, then just put and fill a 6-8" piece of sonotube on the top to make it look like a real pier?
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My plan was to use the tube, then pour concrete on the outside of the tube as opposed to backfilling with dirt. Can I do that?
I know I'm overdoing it. I can't help it. I have OCD. And I'll know I have a pretty tube under my house.
Lol. You are your own worst enemy. Tube is dense cardboard and I wouldn't want to leave it under the house. I've seen termites follow them up. If you embed it, it won't come out. Pealing them off sucks on a good day when you can stand next to them. Under your house is going to suck and blow at the same time. I wouldn't make more work for yourself if you don't have to.
How about this.
I build a 2x6 form on grade, fill the entire hole with concrete, then just put and fill a 6-8" piece of sonotube on the top to make it look like a real pier?
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Brilliant!
But do whatever you like. Your house!
I did the same pier under my house years ago. Took out a wall and needed to suport the upstairs. Set a beam, cut the floor, and poured a little concrete. Doing it on a job right now too. Customer wanted a bigger opening in a kitchen, so we are opened up the floor and poured a footing.
Years ago, I used to take jobs no one else wanted. I would get these 100 year old houses that needed new foundations. The old brick foundations would be falling apart, and sinking. I'd hire a house mover to lift the house 6' in the air and we'd redo the foundations and set the house back down. Some of them were repaired in place. I'd brace up the house, rip half of the foundation out to replace, then repeat on the other side. A bunch would need to be re leveled because they had sunk into the ground. So I'd lift the back end of the house up 4" and drop the front 2" to relevel everything while pouring new stem walls and all new footings. Also lifting houses that were in flood plains. Some were only raised 2', while others were raised 10', and we'd put a garage under the house. I did that for years working on historic Victorian homes.