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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Why not do the concrete pier yourself?, its not hard. Really, rio is not required.
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That's something I am definitely concidering , I need two .
I'm concidering using an offcut of PVC water pipe (I happen to have in the rafters) which is about 8" OD as the mould , and using quickset cement mix (if I can it with fine gravel in it) and dumping the dry cement mix into the pipe buy the bucketful , hitting the mix with water from a hose to soak it, and then repeating the process until the pipe is full of damp cement.
(Did this when I erected my back fence (dug a hole big enough to take a full bag of cement mix , stuck the RST fence poll in , leveled it , and dumped the cement mix in dry and hit it water until the cement couldn't soak up more).Did this for each fence poll.
Biggest disadvantage of a concrete fixed pier is it is there forever , not future proof. I can live with that.