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Cracked a brand new concrete tube on site last Friday
I was setting a corner post for a 6-foot privacy fence in Austin and the tube just split right down the middle when I started tamping... lucky I caught it before the concrete set. Had to dig the whole thing out and start over with a heavier gauge tube from the truck. Cost me an extra hour and a half on a job that was already tight. Has anyone else had duds from a bad batch of tubes lately?
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angelamurphy14d ago
Sounds like a concrete "bust" instead of a concrete tube...
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knight.uma14d ago
Grab one of the defective tubes and check the wall thickness with a tape measure? I had a batch from a big box store a few months back where some tubes were almost paper thin on one side, must have been a manufacturing defect. Wondering if yours came from a certain supply house too.
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That paper-thin spot on one side sounds like the exact issue I ran into, were those from a Home Depot?
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