Im planning to pour 4 concrete footings blocks for an 8'x20' storage container. The only support these containers need is on the corners. They weigh about 5000lbs. What size of footing would be required to adequately support these containers?
With it being Montana , we have more then a freeze thaw climate, Not sure just where the op is in the state, but where I am at it can go from -20/30 to + 40/50 over night. :thumbup:How much of what kind of stuff you planning putting in there?
You in a freeze thaw climate?
I agreePut some stone down and call it a day .
I wonder who the commercial guy is :laughing:I would get some 20" sonotube. Excavate to 8" below frost line or competent bearing,(something that you can't easily push a #4 rebar into.) whichever is deeper. Then take that #4 that you just probed the bottom of the footing with along with some #3 x16" daimeter rings and make a rebar cage for each footing.
Or you could just scrape off the sod and throw down some 4" solids. :laughing:
Why so concerned about a 20" conex? Is this a permanent installation?
I resemble that remark.I wonder who the commercial guy is :laughing:
Right, unless he is making some permanent install out of it, which is being done these days.Stone. It's a temporary box. It doesn't need footings.
Good for them. I get tired of looking at those things on the job, don't want to see 'em around the house when I get home. :no:My little town has tried to stop the infiltration of containers by requiring them have foundations and meet codes as an out building
Put wheels on it, now it's a trailerMy little town has tried to stop the infiltration of containers by requiring them have foundations and meet codes as an out building
Another reason they maybe doing this is once on a foundation they can be taxed, at least it is that way here.My little town has tried to stop the infiltration of containers by requiring them have foundations and meet codes as an out building
It's always about revenue. We don't call it "tax" anymore.Randy Bush said:Another reason they maybe doing this is once on a foundation they can be taxed, at least it is that way here.