Hi,

This is my first post on Renovate, I've been reading posts here for a few years now and finally had a tricky question of my own.

On the weekend we had 3 fairly large concreting jobs going on (a slab for a 6x6 shed, a monolithic foundation for a block fence and some footings for a deck we plan to build later this year). And in one aspect I've ended up with a disaster.

Since we had a lot going on I left my brother (who is in his second year of his engineering course - been doing reno's for many years - and should know better) to supervise the pouring of the deck foundations after we'd had a a discussion about how I needed the stirrups orientated and positioned, meanwhile I was out the front dealing with the fence foundations. And long story short he paid very little attention to detail on how the stirrups were placed, so by the time I came around the back to check the concrete was already setting (the stirrups wouldn't budge) and thus the problem is more or less set in stone. They are all orientated the correct way however at least two of them are out of line and another 2 are on wonky angles.

My initial thoughts are to cut off the offending stirrups and use some bolt on stirrups, however this will deviate from the plans we've had drawn up (they can of course be altered) but I was also wondering is it possible for the ones on wonky angles for the posts to still be attached ? From what I understand the posts don't sit on the middle plate and are supposed to some 50mm off it, thus I can see why this wouldn't work short of it not looking quite right.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? I'm still in a bit of shock about it because we were so careful with everything else.

The type of post anchor I've used is exactly this: Dunnings 90 x 600mm Galvanised Hi Wind Post Anchor I/N 1090047 | Bunnings Warehouse


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