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Paver Pier Base
Paver Pier base
Started chewing over my summer project of building a permanent
pier and a concrete base. The base was going to require either
bucket loads of cement bags and a lot of work or a contract delivery
to fill the hole etc etc. Then it dawned on me that I had about 170 old
cement pavers (20x20x4) leaning against the fence doing nothing and
unlikely to ever be used again. What if I dug a hole 70cm x 70cm x 66
deep and I …
1/ Put 4-6cm or so of cement plus re-enforcing mesh on the bottom to
form a level base.
2/ Put some re-enforcing mesh around the outside.
2/ Put pavers in a 3 x 3 format with about 1 cm spacing between each.
3/ Put cement over the top about 1 cm thick with re-enforcing mesh
across the top linked to the side mesh. It would be about 4cm thick at
the sides.
4/ Did another 11 layers to get a 70 x 70 x 60 cube of locked pavers/cement.
I figure it would require about 9 (20Kg) bags of quick setting premixed
cement assuming 0.009m3 per bag. That I can cope with. Don't need a
cement mixer (well maybe a baby one). Don't need a cement delivery.
Do it at my own pace and it would be very low cost.
Can anyone see any problems with the idea? One I can think of is the
pavers are dirty and slightly mouldy so they would need a wire brush scrub
before use. I'm also thinking about doing 8 layers at 3x3 then
4 layers at 4x4 so as to give some tilt resistance although I'm not sure it would need it.
Any ideas as to what the mesh size should be?
Comments anyone??
Cheers
Stephen
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