Footing / Discussions

...footing protection. What is your suggestion about preventing moisture from getting into the concrete wall from footing? thanks! Great question, and yes, moi...

Unisulated footing under ICF walls allows thermal bridging into the concrete core of the wall allowing energy stored in the thermal mass to bleed into the soil...

...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...

...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 ...

...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 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...

...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 is not. Moisture will forever wick up from the ground to keep the concrete wet. So, adding a ‘vapor barrier’ to the outside of a concrete foundation won...

...footings poured and the floor of the crawl space covered in crushed stone. I have high humidity in the house and crawl space (despite the fact that the crawlspa...

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

...footing membrane included and I’ve never seen one installed that was at my doing. You an image of what a footing membrane looks like (capillary break) in the fo...

...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, 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 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 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...