Worried about possibly blowing the forms and 1 inch formboard is hard to get ahold of.
How to build concrete wall forms with plywood.
Then pour your concrete inside the form using a chute or hose attached to the mixer.
To form a concrete wall first set up plywood boards on either side of your concrete footer and attach them together with wire.
Thick concrete pours of greater than 8 inches may require a second round of stakes set a couple of feet behind the concrete form with kickers nailed to the bottom of the rear stakes and the top of the form stakes to provide additional stability.
Does anyone have any idea how tall of a wall you can pour with 3 4 inch plywood forms just using cams and ties.
It would be advisable not to build the forms any taller than 4.
Im looking at a job that has a 16 ft tall by 90 ft wall and a 20 ft tall by 50 ft wall.
If i make the ties close enough together does it matter.
Even though we are not dealing concrete blocks always base the height of a concrete wall form on a multiple of 8.
Straight flat lumber without knotholes provides the best concrete forms.
To make the wall as strong as possible pour the concrete in layers no higher than 20 inches working from 1 end of the wall to the.
Since plywood comes in 4 x 8 sheets the forms are better off 8 long for the most part.