Footing / Discussions

...footing into the soil, via the insulation layer. DJB It would be a structural engineer you're looking for, and while we have a team here that deal with everythi...

...footings but this seems to conflict with the FPSF principle of relying on heat transferring through the footing to stabilize the ground temp. My next thought wa...

...footing insulation once the forms are removed, specifically the top of the roxul that would be exposed after building the exterior walls. Just to be clear when ...

...footing and frost wall, but those can sometimes be trickier to insulate properly. We recently built a new demonstration house (which is nearing completion) wher...

...footing would be to see if there has been any significant shifting or settling. All concrete will crack, that's just a fact of life, but I would more be looking...

...footing, so excavation is much more simple. You need a flat surface on which you build rather than digging trenches or building up to accommodate footings. A fo...

...footing. A monolithic slab on grade can have concrete poured all at one time rather than have a second costly trip by a pump truck and foundation team. You wi...

...footing and frost wall and you aren’t digging down very deep, it often eliminates the need to under-pin any nearby structures for safety. As for how much reba...

...footing as well, which I doubt. Myself I would prefer to have a membrane against the interior of the concrete wall to prevent the concrete from drying inwards...

...footing) It would typically be high-density EPS foam, but a raft slab (which distributes the weight evenly over the entire floor) doesn’t even require high-dens...

...footing was sealed, and being porous, the concrete will continue to wick moisture from the ground. But the biggest problem you have, and that all basements ha...

...footings made of concrete. One downside on that front is the bales are 3 times as wide, so you will be using a lot more concrete for the footing than you would ...

...footing and frost wall requires a lot more excavation and a lot more concrete, and it's done for the most part to accomplish the same thing that can be done wit...

...footing drains) to feed pre-heated or pre-cooled air into an HRV. They work well to help reduce heating and cooling costs, however, there are air quality concer...

...footing. We’re building another demo house right now that will have a solar-air heated floor built from a kit product that has continuous insulation underneath....

...footing, wait a few days, then pay those very expensive concrete trucks to come back a second time to pour the slab of your house. and it’s even worse with a ba...

...footing and slab floor (a raft-slab is also an option for softer soils) . The disadvantages of screw pile construction: A floor raised on screw piles leaves...