Thread: Question about setting condos

I've used mop buckets, plastic rectangular storage bins from Home Depot and rectangular dish pans from Walmart(the small size). I just throw the condo's over and let 'em sink. The cement being very dense always rights the condo as it sinks. The rectanglar pans provide a nice stable base and would be just about impossible to tilt over unless the slope of the underwater floor was very steep or they hit a stump. The problem with the rectangluar wash pan is that you have to mix the concrete fairly thick to keep the pvc from falling over because the depth of the concrete isn't very deep and the pans sides are shallow and sloping giving only marginal support while the concrete hardens. The orange bin in the photo from Home Depot was better for side support.