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Reviewing the Plans for the Foundation
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Reviewing the Plans for the Foundation
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" Hi Bob -- you do on -- great now we don't normally start this far along with a project. Usually we're digging a hole and putting the footing necessary here we already have our foundation in place exactly I know me as they are establishing grade where we want the top of the foundation -- be and how deep to dig the hole and how that sort of stuff right -- this is all been done -- so now this is a sloping lot of sloping grade so what does that your foundation. Well what what is going to do is you want to drop the foundation as you follow the grade so that you don't have all that concrete sticking above the ground so right you look at this agency where that. Plywood starts to drop from the yacht from the cell. That's where they're dropping the concrete in this as the front of the house and this is a side of the house right this is terrific for your water drainage because that's what you want the water to do is naturally. Go away from the yeah but Demi and David sloping towards the houses and getting it isn't going to try to get in the house from the front set up front -- well on the front that's why we're always sure to -- and to get the water. What -- sealer in this case tie up against the foundation. And you see a little bit of it above the backfill of the slope. That's a good job because you don't want to have any of that exposed you want to -- grade -- you don't want it above grade so finish grade is gonna be just a little bit above there and then all along the sides finish grade is more or less where we're looking at it so that. Foundation really stops being foundation here it steps down and it becomes sidewall right yeah and the so that he can bring it down basically you want to be no more than eight inches. From grade to your finish yes shingles when your. When you're all done right but the beauty of of a sloping site like this is that the basement is really good living space. Now what does this tell you this this is this a national lists that -- in the form work here has got some nice new forms because they don't -- l.s little footballs that you would see in the old wood forms or any appeal and not plywood. But what about if you look up here. You see there's kind of like a line that goes all the way across here what does that indicate wow that's basically probably where a couple of trucks that one pulled out another one came in and might have been a little time it's not a problem not no that's. Fairly typical in -- and for this they don't have to worry when you have -- like that what about when you have honey combing like this that happens wants a lab and usually where it shows that there's going to be in the -- like that that it really bothers you can when the mason comes in. He could charge it up. -- dress that -- yeah the only way you can really avoid honeycomb like that is to vibrate the four or five and on a residential job like this normally they just don't do it. Well let's take a look at the plan over here we've got a hot little setup where we can look at it there's so much space here. This is the foundation. Right and we were just that's right over here we were just right here in this corner yes there's all the front yeah so we've got a huge family room big open space here. Even a bathroom down here and then this will all be mechanical systems right yes that's right and what does this indicate that's been a -- that's -- a piece of steel sure. That we have and still is in place and it's temporarily held up by these triple tuba -- right -- steel Lally columns in place exactly."
