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Posted by Don on September 16, 2007, 10:39 pm
>A house up the street is being built and they've done something that
> doesn't seem to be logical.
>
> The lot slopes a bit. No basement per se, but they had to remove soil
> in ~20' length x 30' width, sloping from 5' high to 0 along the 20'.
>
> They then poured footers - along the perimeter, and several interior
> ones as well.
>
> Then, they built CMU walls about 5' high in the area described above
> (20'x30'). In doing so, they "made" a couple rooms - without doors.
> Not small ones, either as the one is about 20' x 15'. One is probably
> 8x8.
>
> These are on the front side of the house. The back side of this
> section will be at walk out level w/back yard, and (presumably) have
> regular frame walls.
>
> Now a dump truck came along and dumped dirt, partially into this "room
> sans doors. The next day, the "room" was totally filled in with dirt.
> Haven't gotten around to seeing if the smaller room is also filled in,
> but I would guess so.
>
> What are they doing?
>
> Why not just do regular footers (30" deep, and stepped, or w/basement
> area), instead of digging a hole, then filling it back in - after
> going to the trouble of building walls that are going to be buried
> (but, presumably, serve as the base for walls above)?
>
> Thanx
> Renata
HA!
Thats the standard way in SW FL.
They dig out the existing soil to get approved tampable material installed
to accept a concrete slab.
The reason they don't make a basement is the height of the water table.
If you dig down in undistrubed soil 3' deep it will be full of water an hour
later.
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