

BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – CUSTOM HOME DESIGNING BACKGROUND – HOUSE DESIGN ARTICLES
ALL ABOUT HOUSE FOUNDATION PROBLEMS and YOUR HOME DESIGN FOUNDATION T-WALL
By Before The Architect Copyright 2009
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| This subchapter is about designing a
concrete home foundation strip footing with wall, which is a way of saying it's about
designing t-wall foundation properties | |||||||||
More properly, this is about a
continuous, placed, reinforced concrete strip footing and the continuous,
placed (or blocked) reinforced concrete wall that sits atop the strip
footing,
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A strip footing (a/k/a continuous
concrete stem wall , a/k/a t-wall, a/k/a strip foundation, a/k/a continuous
wall strip footing), shall be
comprised of
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In some soils, engineering guidance will be requisite; however, whoever the engineer be, be sure there's no ownership tie to contracting. [The worst substrates this author encountered involved Leda Clay in the Great and Lesser Clay Belts of northeaster Ontario Province.]
Rebar shall be –
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| Strip footing top of face shall not be higher than the greater depth of 18 linear inches below finish grade level or the frost level |
Strip footing shall have
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| Strip footing shall reveal not less than
4 linear inches and preferably not less than 6 linear inches clear on the
horizontal, either side of the wall (or grade beam) it supports | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Wall shall be
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Backfill
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Keyways
shall be
permitted
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| Vertical faces of the foundation below grade shall be covered by not less than 3 linear inches of compacted material. |
Comment: Please note, dear reader, that in all instances,
sub-slab-on-grade foundation elements are continuously separated at their top of
face from the bottom of face of a slab-on-grade by a continuous bond break.
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