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[gary wood]

How do you draw bigfoot deck footings since sonotubes are no longer code

[Gary McKeon]

Gary- why are you posting in the "Guest" forum?

[Steve and Carla Farnam]

How do you draw bigfoot deck footings since sonotubes are no longer code

Sona Tubes No Longer Code ? Attached are BF28 drawn with a few lines and copy paste as need on 2D elevations

[gary wood]

Made a mistake on Guest Forum post. Sorry 

From my reading of code you can't use sonotube without a footing below 

[Sam Morgan]

You never could use a sono tube without a footing below.  Unless the sono tube was the same surface area of the required footing

[gary wood]

I'm going to have to disagree Sam. I've done plenty of decks with sonotubes 2x size of post and had all of them pass inspection 

[Sam Morgan]

you'll have to provide a code reference for that so I can read it.  I've never had an engineer spec less than 24 x 24 footing under a deck column

[ROBERT BROGAN]

I drew a 24 inch bigfoot very close to scale.  If anyone knows how to share a symbol - i would be more than happy to send it to you.