Re: [RE-wrenches] DPW concrete base

2017-07-13 Thread William Miller
Message- From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 7:50 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] DPW concrete base I wish I could do that William. Most of the Offgrid places I go would be too

Re: [RE-wrenches] DPW concrete base

2017-07-12 Thread Kevin Pegg
2 250-846-9888 Http://www.EnergyAlternatives.ca -Original Message- From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of William Miller Sent: July-11-17 7:33 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] DPW concrete base Friends: I always avoided struc

Re: [RE-wrenches] DPW concrete base

2017-07-12 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
I wish I could do that William. Most of the Offgrid places I go would be too expensive/time consuming to even consider driven pipe. The biggest mistake that people make when re-enforcing concrete with steel is not elevating the steel above the ground. This can be a path to rusting out the steel lon

Re: [RE-wrenches] DPW concrete base

2017-07-12 Thread William Miller
Friends: I always avoided structural engineering costs. We used recommended footings which were always oversized. However, as the cost of excavation, concrete and steel has increased, good engineering will pay for itself in reduction of all of the above. For example, we frequently avoid usin

[RE-wrenches] DPW concrete base

2017-07-11 Thread Hilton Dier
We never did the calculation for pole mounts. We just used the biggest base size they listed and cast on an extra foot of depth in the form of a square footer. We figured that an extra half yard of concrete is cheap compared to the cost of the digging and form setting. The cost of a 36" sonotube