The footer is ready for foundation wall forms.
We took some pictures and then sat on the morning room footer and had salads talking about our new house. I have been pretty stressed over selling our current house and juggling all the showings and negative comments that our house is too small. So Stressful!!!!
A couple of things I noticed on our Landon footer.
1) They have the footer poured with indentures to run a drain through the sides of the porch. I wish they would have just put the drain around the outside of the porch and waterproofed the porch. I guess that would create too much surface area and additional cost. Hopefully not including the porch in the waterproofing doesn't allow water to seep into the porch and crack the foundation there.
2) They did do a riser halfway down the side of the exterior garage wall. I kind of wished the had the garage foundation the same depth as the house.
3) There is a weird pipe under the foundation in one spot. I'm assuming it is where the sump pump goes and drains to. (I have never had a sump pump)
On the current home front, we have been on the market for a week and had a lot of showings. It's been frustrating hearing the negative feedback on our house. I have made so many improvements to the house over the years and really made it a lot nicer. Our current home has a kitchen I remodeled 6 years ago and a bathroom I remodeled early June. I spent this weekend fixing the hot tub to get it running in hopes that a working hot tub would help sell our current home. Here is what that looked like:
It looks like they poured your footer like they did ours which was wrong in regards to the garage and the angled wall. My PM said the company that did it used old plans instead of new ones. So when they poured the foundation they ended up just pouring the footer in place with them. Upside is that makes it stronger.
ReplyDeleteThe step up for the garage was 5 feet or so past the house foundation, and the step up foot was still part of the same pour. Hopefully it has tons of rebar in it.
ReplyDeleteoh I don't mean the step up. the back wall of the garage is supposed to be straight across, but like ours it had a small step in it and they didn't pour the footer for the angled wall, back right corner of garage they made it square. If you look at the drawing I have on my blog you can see what I mean. The different elevations for the footer of the garage won't be an issue cause they put wood support under it and tie it in with rebar. Plus your garage will get grade beams (just trenches filled with concrete that look like a beam) in it to give it more support.
Deletethe pipe under your foundation is most likely for your sewer drain.
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