How To Build Concrete Wall Forms With Plywood

Since plywood comes in 4 x 8 sheets the forms are better off 8 long for the most part.

How to build concrete wall forms with plywood.

To form a concrete wall first set up plywood boards on either side of your concrete footer and attach them together with wire. 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. Even though we are not dealing concrete blocks always base the height of a concrete wall form on a multiple of 8.

If i make the ties close enough together does it matter. Then pour your concrete inside the form using a chute or hose attached to the mixer. Worried about possibly blowing the forms and 1 inch formboard is hard to get ahold of. 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.

Straight flat lumber without knotholes provides the best concrete forms. For taller walls build shorter forms to add to the 4 sections. Im looking at a job that has a 16 ft tall by 90 ft wall and a 20 ft tall by 50 ft wall.