Concrete Dock - 08/12/21 01:43 PM
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.
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.