A: Lally columns are made up of a steel tube filled with concrete. The steel is most important, because any concrete inside the steel tube is too small to hold up without the steel.

Q. The outside of the Lally columns in my under-the-house garage have rusted out at the bottom. The inside concrete looks OK, but is the outside steel layer important? GUEST, in Hotton’s chat ...

Is a steel pipe the same thing as a lally column? Do I have to break through the concrete slab to pour a new footing for this steel pipe column? Is this something I can do myself? Thanks! Share .

Roofs over entryways and porches need beefy supports at the corners like 4-by-4s or steel lally columns. Those structural members have the strength but often not the looks, and are usually boxed ...

Prior to MLT’s purchase of the building the cellar flooded regularly and the steel Lally columns corroded. MLT volunteers installed two sump pumps and the basement has not flooded over the past ...