Shuttering options

josh

josh

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I need to reinforce some shed pillars with concrete around them, approx a cubic metre around each one. Are there shuttering pans 1 x 1 metre available? I have thought about making up my own if not or building a block wall around each one and back filling with concrete.
 
You could get peri handsets which would be 900mm X 1500mm nice shutters to use, hook system to hold them together and whirly bolt.
 
candor said:
I need to reinforce some shed pillars with concrete around them, approx a cubic metre around each one. Are there shuttering pans 1 x 1 metre available? I have thought about making up my own if not or building a block wall around each one and back filling with concrete.
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Are they rotten at the bottom the reason why you are reinforcing them?
Had 5 here gone like that and I just dug them out and welded new bottom sections back in.
 
MF30 said:
Are they rotten at the bottom the reason why you are reinforcing them?
Had 5 here gone like that and I just dug them out and welded new bottom sections back in.
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That's right. That would certainly be the way to do it if the levels were staying the same. The shed itself is down in a hole so I'll be raising the floor by about 1 metre so thought this route might make sense.
 
Are the pillars good above the level of the proposed floor. If so, back fill with gravel and leave a good hole around the pillar for a good lump of concrete to go in around it.
 
Good idea on the oil barrels. I have one lying around but will need 7 more.

Yep they are good above the level the floor will be. They are 7 X 4 pillars.
 
Lads building a slatted tank near here were using massive cardboard tubes for making round pillars.
Cut the cardboard off with a stihll saw after.
They'd be the job? Smooth finish.
 
The lads that did a neighbours tank had half rounds that could be clamped together to make columns or where I saw them using them they were rawl bolting them up the side of the tank and pouring a half column where the shed pillars were to stand.

I was also going to suggest oil drums or blue plastic barrels as shutters
 
AYF said:
Lads building a slatted tank near here were using massive cardboard tubes for making round pillars.
Cut the cardboard off with a stihll saw after.
They'd be the job? Smooth finish.
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How would you get them around the pillars, ring spanners and hydraulic hoses comes to mind..
 
Arthur said:
How would you get them around the pillars, ring spanners and hydraulic hoses comes to mind..
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There was no pillars, they were using the cardboard shutters filled with concrete to make the pillars, I assume it was inside the tank and they were going to put beams on top of the pillars to carry the slats
 
AYF said:
They can come in two parts also.


@drew Saved the day there!😂
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Dont ask me what diameter they are now, I fell like they’d possibly 2ft in the round when clamped together but couldn’t be in anyway certain about it
 
lough said:
There was no pillars, they were using the cardboard shutters filled with concrete to make the pillars, I assume it was inside the tank and they were going to put beams on top of the pillars to carry the slats
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The OP has pillars .
 
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