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Pour concrete footing and wall together.
The site is cleared the excavation was completed with our own equipment and now we have set up and have poured the concrete footers and stem wall for this bonners ferry garage apartment.
One concrete pour for the footing and one for the foundation wall with the rebar and often a concrete key to hold them together.
In areas with a shallow frost line and stable soil carefully excavated trenches often serve as footings forms 1 and enable monolithic pours in which footing and wall concrete are placed together.
The key step is keeping an eye on the opening while you pour and vibrate.
If concrete starts to ooze over the top of the footing move to another spot and let the concrete stiffen before you add more weight on top of it.
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When you come back to it vibrate the two pours together enough to ensure a good joint but not enough to lift the forms.
X 150 pcf 900 lbs lin.
Without an integrated spread footing form like sonotube tube base or bigfoot i would split the pours.
In a traditional pour foundation walls are separate from the floor.
On the next day or after firm to firm pressure 3hrs place tube back fill carefully to keep tube centered tamp soil.
Load capacity of footing.
Osland uses an old school method to place the footing and walls in a single pour.
The walls are formed with 2x8 lumber stacked on edge.
Stem wall is placed second using wetter concrete so as not to leave voids.
The trenches are dug for the footings the footings are built in place the rebar is properly located and then the concrete is poured just for the footing.
Local building codes regulate residential and commercial foundations.
However you may alter this construction standard by pouring a floor and footer at the same time in certain situations.
X 8 in 12 in ft.
Traditionally foundations are constructed in two phases.
Place the rebar a pair of l bars spaced at 7 inches apart will center tube.
Footing is placed first using very stiff concrete.