Foundation slab - queries and good practices...

John Moorhead · 2004-07-25T18:55:09+00:00

Folks -Well, yesterday I put in another drip system for the half barrel plantersalongthe West fence line and removed the remaining debris that was where the padwill be poured. I have a *load of scrap, piled on a 4x8 table, and thensome, and getting that sorted out will be a trick. I have TONS of off cutsand scrap and hate to part with ANY of it.So, for the foundation... I have ....questions..... Now, this is a 24x36Covered Patio - the North Side is a solid wall and it is open to the South.The East wall abuts the garage, the foundation is tied to the garage slaband the roof peak meets at the peak of the garage roof. The entry to thepatio is from the garage, in the Southeast corner.The plan calls for the foundation to be level with the garage slab,approximately 14" above grade. The foundation has perimeter footings, 16"wide and 12" tall, a minimum of 6" below grade, adjoining a thickened edgefor the 4" (min) slab and 2x6 walls.Based on my calcs, I am going to need just under a foot of fill - so ~864 CFor about 32 yards. If I use rock for fill, it will come to just over 800bucks. I don't know how much fill dirt is or which is the better way to go.That seems expensive, but how often do I buy rocks? I was planning onrenting a compactor....Is a 4" thick slab going to be enough? Is 6" silly? I have/will have mostof the regular tooling... the heaviest thing I could imagine I'd own wouldbe a 15" planer or other old iron... 1,000 - 1,500 max. How much do I need?Like everything else, I have to balance cost/benefit to the nth... so....My estimates for Aggregates is $3,478, Foundation Mat'ls at 1,617- ... andequipment rental and "handholding" oversight are 672... So it's just a notchunder 5 k for materials and my own work or about 5.78 per SF.Tomorrow morning we are going to lay out the foundation lines for thebackhoe guy. The footings extend 6" beyond the perimeter of the slabproper, and the fellow said to give him a chalkline 3" outside of that. So,I need to mark...

Jul 25, 2004 21 Replies

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Slowhand 21 years ago

What does she do with it all? SH

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Larry Jaques 21 years ago

On 28 Jul 2004 08:42:56 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnotforme (Charlie Self) calmly ranted:

Sadly, it's a beautiful area they're filling up.

Yeah, there are even more folks downstream which will be losing flow until the dam fills up, then are at risk if it breaks.

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