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Hi Paul,
Very nice, The only thing that makes me shiver a bit is the fact that you shimmed the pier onto the concrete floor. Cold concrete and high / Low temperatures can produce condensation and as concrete contains certain acids you can also have a decomposition of your shimming material. Even if it is treated with zinc.
In that case I would have gone another way and instead of shimming 4 nuts and washer below and 4 nuts and washers on top.
So you could have levelled it easier and then just really tighten the nuts as much as possible. I have the fear that that shimming with the time will cause problems. Be it because of further compression or maybe rusting and disintegrating of the shims.
The other point is you have closed the outdoor for any easy adjustments of the pier for the future due to the way you have enclosed your pier. Any repair on the pier base is now not possible without a major surgery into the floor and the space you then have is very very limited ...
You should have put a trap door and make the square around the pier wider. Just my 2 cents ...
Last edited by rsbfoto; 07-10-2009 at 02:57 AM.
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