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Pour Concrete Footings and Install Anchors

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What happens here

After placing the Sonotube forms, rocks are added to the bottom of each hole to ensure proper drainage and prevent water buildup. Next, bags of Quikrete 5000 concrete mix are prepared. The dry mix is poured into a large tub, followed by the addition of water. The concrete is thoroughly mixed with a shovel until a consistent, workable consistency is achieved. The mixed concrete is then shoveled into each Sonotube form, ensuring it fills the form completely. Finally, a post base anchor is inserted into the wet concrete at the top of each footing, carefully leveled using a spirit level, and secured in place.

Goal: Create stable concrete footings with embedded post anchors for the deck frame.

Tools and materials

  • Mixing Tub — Mixing concrete
  • Post Base Anchors — Anchoring deck posts to the concrete footings
  • Shovel Craftsman — Mixing concrete and pouring it into forms
  • Spirit Level — Leveling post base anchors
  • Quikrete 5000 Concrete Mix Quikrete — Pouring the deck footings
  • Rocks/Gravel — Drainage at the bottom of footing holes
  • Water — Mixing with concrete

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around should be good our footing get our level [Music] was good most important part here is making sure that anchor is leveled here and we're going to run a string across to make sure that it lines up with that area on the back cuz we don't want this thing to be all scattered and sted staggered we don't want it to be staggered on us oh all right so we have a nice tight string going from the back of the bracket so this will ensure that when we put our boards running across it's not going to be staggered or swaying any direction so nice straight line or equal distances within an e of an inch away from the building which is fan freaking tastic and last and foremost we are making sure our footing is balanced right there okay I got one more pour I'll save you guys the hassle of watching me let it dry overnight and we'll be ready to Boogie the anchors are all dry we got our lumber here pressure treated 2x8 the idea is going to be to Anchor this thing with these beefy lag bolts into the footing of the house the plan is to keep the same plane as this concrete slab once it's anchored we'll attach our post and then we'll find our our level my concrete footing here is 7 and 5/8 which is plenty of room because my board is 7 and A4 but I have this tiny little corner here that it drops down to 7 and A4 maybe a little bit less that's why it's tight so I need to make a

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