Keeping this very basic and ignoring sizes, spans, loads etc which have all been agreed by an SE and BCO. I have one simple question that is bugging me ..... should a padstone be square? If you look at the picture below, the padstone when used in diagram A is fine even though it is not square, however when turned on its edge and used on a single pier the profile of the padstone no longer makes sense as it slopes and the mortar would need to compensate for this. Is this normal or do padstones come in different profiles dependent on which orientation they are used in? It seems common sense to me that a padstone as used in diagram B should be perfectly square.
Hope this makes sense! I'll ask the SE in the morning but it's going to bug me all night if I don't clear this up now!
Cheers
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Hope this makes sense! I'll ask the SE in the morning but it's going to bug me all night if I don't clear this up now!
Cheers
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