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Showerthought: I was listening to a podcast where a guy said 'a fence is only as good as the ground it sits on' and it made me think about my last job in that sandy soil near the coast.
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burns.brian7mo ago
Tell me about that sandy soil job.
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sagejackson6mo ago
Brian, that job was a nightmare. We ended up going twice as deep as usual with the footings, basically building concrete icebergs. Even @jesse_coleman78's long-post method would have been shaky there. The inspector made us add a whole extra row of supports before he'd sign off.
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jesse_coleman787mo ago
We used concrete footings and extra-long posts for stability.
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karenc207mo ago
Remember my buddy who tried to build a deck on pure sand? His posts looked like a drunk fence line after the first rain. Had to redo the whole base with those deep concrete tubes.
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