July 2008
by William Bolton
An easily built reusable form makes footings less obtrusive.
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Shapely Piers An easily built reusable form makes footings less obtrusive William Bolton Elegant is not a word I would use to describe the round concrete footings that most decks are built on. The tops of these footings are much larger than is required for load bearing, so for the past eight years I've been shaping the tops of my footings into a sort of truncated pyramid to decrease their visible footprint (see photo, below). To do this, I use homemade reusable forms. They're wider at the bottom, which makes them simple to lift right off the set concrete. They're
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