Asked a TX GC down NW of San Antonio to build per a detail on my stock planset, which shows a battered pier for a portico structure, done with plywood and 2" veneer. Hollow. Cheap. Won't last. I know it won't, cause that is how they did some at the entry to the local CVS Pharmacy, and they are falling apart.
Anyhow, I asked it be done using the local limestone in an ashlar lay, Leuders brownish-gold, and am wondering something.
Straight up is easy. How much tougher is doing it battered, as drawn? Not stepped. Battered.
As you can see in the pics, the plans-sellers detail and my hallucination in Sketchup, which was done to work out the scale for a lower set of piers, there is a 6x6 pressure-treated post in the core.
And with the face of the pier out there, not a tight lay-up to the post, is any core material getting used? Or is the mason just gonna fill inside with rubble.
I show a pic clipped from the GC's website, showing piers, a full and a half, but with the easy plumb sides. Battering takes a little more effort, but how much?
Anyhow, I asked it be done using the local limestone in an ashlar lay, Leuders brownish-gold, and am wondering something.
Straight up is easy. How much tougher is doing it battered, as drawn? Not stepped. Battered.
As you can see in the pics, the plans-sellers detail and my hallucination in Sketchup, which was done to work out the scale for a lower set of piers, there is a 6x6 pressure-treated post in the core.
And with the face of the pier out there, not a tight lay-up to the post, is any core material getting used? Or is the mason just gonna fill inside with rubble.
I show a pic clipped from the GC's website, showing piers, a full and a half, but with the easy plumb sides. Battering takes a little more effort, but how much?
