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We are currently putting in an all concrete pre-fab dock. Originally I was going to do a treated wood one with telephone poles as footers, even bought a half dozen used poles.
Then we saw an all concrete dock that some friends of ours had put in in and decided to pay a little extra for a maintenance free dock that should last for a long long time.

Ours will be 24.6' long 10' wide, we wanted to get it out far enough so that if we or the kids ever put a diving board on it the water will be plenty deep. It drops off into 15' pretty fast.




The footers for the columns are 36" round by 5' deep









Poured columns a few days after putting footers in








The pre-fab beams and deck sections are all built and will be coming in on a big truck with a boom as soon as the rain here slows down enough for the dirt to dry out for the truck. Should be within a week, then all that will be left to do is ad a stainless steel ladder, put a couple short fish structures under the dock and let the pond fill up.

And as good a pic of the broom finish I could get, shouldn't be any slip hazard.






I have read through a lot of dock threads on here and have seen some amazing looking docks, never saw anything about concrete ones (unless I missed it, sure could have). The whole concrete dock concept was actually pretty new to me until a little over a month ago.
The guy that delivered the pre-fab upper of ours said that ours was the fifteenth he has delivered so far this year in our area. We even talked about a guy in the southern part of our county that is draining his pond down to put one in. Like I said earlier we were going to build a stout pre-treated wood one until we heard about this. The cost of ours was close to 5K when all said and done but it should be about maintenance free and literally last forever.
Just another option for people with ponds, wood, concrete, floating or combos of all have their pros and cons. Just thought I would share what we ended up choosing.

Finished our dock last Friday. I like how it turned out, way bigger and beefier than I originally thought it would be.
All that is left to do on it now is add an 8' prefab concrete double step on front and put a six step stainless ladder on left side.

Process showing it going together;

Beautiful dock, H2Ofowler.

Your fish will also be the only ones in the entire state of Ohio that have a tornado shelter installed in their home.

I have also noticed that problem!

I don't think Newton was lying about the universal gravitational constant. It must be some other factor in my case.

I think you will b fine with the broom finish. Thts how r driveway is and it's not slippery. In my opinion theres more pro's than con's going with concrete. Seen one on the web before tht was like the kids say now EPIC. NOT MY PICTURE TOOK OFF THE WEB.

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Looks very nice and should last a very very long time!

This looks amazing. The no maintenance is a awesome advantage. 5k is pretty damn cheap for the years and fun tht will be had on it. Your grandkids - grandkids will still b using this dock. Your whole place looks like a place anyone would b proud to have. Looking forward to some full pool pictures to come.

Thanks Stringer!
I'm sure looking forward to it getting filled up and slowly stocking it. Hopefully we get plenty of rain late fall and next spring. Our plan is to build our forever house facing the pond in the next couple years along with a pole barn, we are drawing up some house plans now.

Can't wait to post up pics of the family having fun at the pond and the boys pulling in some nice fish, the whole place just relaxes me being out there and it hardly even has any water in yet!

Yes
For the top (pre-fabbed beams and top) it was $3300, my youngest sons friends who work with concrete helped with the footers and columns.

I got the footers for the prefab steps dug in a couple weeks ago and it was finally dry enough to get them delivered and set today.












The dock is pretty much complete now except for a six step stainless ladder on the left side.

Ah yes!! Thanks RAH, with the deep shadows under the platform I missed that those were the concrete joists seen only on end profile. Thanks!

I think you might be confusing the concrete joists with smaller posts when the joists are viewed from the head-on perspective from the water side?

Neat idea.

I never thought of a concrete dock. With the price of wood decking, might be something to consider.

This looks amazing. The no maintenance is a tremendous advantage. 5k is pretty damn cheap for the years and fun that will be had on it. Your grandkids - grandkids will still b using this dock. Your whole place looks like a place anyone would b proud to have. Looking forward to some full pool pictures to come. I am surprised you are doing it yourself, it seems like you are really good at it. I would have hired concrete contractors Denver to do it for sure, as I would have no idea how to do it myself .

Truly, that looks good.