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WEST COAST HOMES (May 8 2004)

Great concrete columns start with plastic

By Brian Morton
Staff Reporter

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"There's nothing more real than concrete," says the 59-year-old Fab-Form Industries president, a developer of fabric forms for concrete who has invented a just-released ''tube-on-a-roll'' product he feels could revolutionize the concrete column industry...

Fearn began marketing the product in the Lower Mainland a month ago and it is already being used in the latest phase of houses being built at Panorama Ridge by Qualico Developments...

"We've just started using them and they're excellent," says Panorama Ridge site superintendent Chad Rose. "They give a nice finish and they're easy to set up. When we first saw it, we were skeptical. But it creates a perfect tube every time and there's no waste, which is one of the big factors. It's ingenious. [Cardboard] tubes are going to be like the eight-track. This is one of those things that are going to make life easier. It's going to fly."
 

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