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So if you're lucky enough to have some stable soil conditions and
you can dig a trench like we have in this particular pond.
You can go ahead and pour your concrete on top of your rebar.
If you live areas with unstable soil conditions, say in Florida or
Palm Springs and you have a lot of sandy soil, you might not be able
to get the dirt to conform to the shape that we want here.
So you're gonna have to take an extra step and put some forms in
place to hold the concrete in place for your bond beam.
We're gonna show you how to do that next.
We just picked up some wooden stakes, got a sledgehammer, and
we have these cool little bender boards here.
They're coated in plastic so the concrete doesn't stick to them,
and they can conform to the shape of our circle.
I also have this quick little impact screw gun and some drywall screws.
So the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna drive some stakes in
around, and then we'll attach our form boards right to them.
So the first step is to come in the inside curve of our excavation and
we're going to drive these stakes in every couple of feet.
And this is what we are going to attach our form board to.
We'll tack it to it.
Once you have your stakes all driven on the inside of the form,
what we're gonna do is we're gonna set the top form board of
the bender board.
And we're just gonna start with the top first, and what we've done on
this pond, we have the bond beams can be 12 inches below water level.
So we set our laser level to tell us exactly where that's gonna be.
You can do that with a traditional four foot level as well.
But we're gonna go ahead and
start attaching these form boards to stakes.
We have our forms in place, and our rebar is set.
It's time to pour the concrete.
We just went to the local hardware store and picked up a concrete mix.
And we're gonna use wheelbarrows today.
But if you're lucky enough to have a buddy with a mixer,
you could probably go a whole lot faster.
I brought in some extra boys today so
we can get this done a whole lot quicker.
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