When you pour concrete footings, hold the cardboard concrete form tube about 12 in. up from the bottom of the footing. Do this by nailing the sides of the tube to the center of a tic-tac-toe grid ...

A deck post footing is simply a 20-inch or larger diameter pad of poured concrete down at the bottom of a hole that's dug in solid soil. The bottom of the hole needs to be below the local frost level.

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