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A plumber friend of mine just had a foundation poured, and it has a few issues. The ones that concern me are with the footings. The foundation is a 12×12 addition, to an existing stone foundation, with 8 ft high walls. Then it steps down, and joggs out, to a 22×30 with 9-6 high walls. The plans called for rebar, but the way these walls sit on the footings I am wondering why I don’t see it showing.
It seems that on one 2 ft jog they missed the footing completely, as in the forms were in hover-mode. Also, I would guess that as much as a quarter of the walls are to one edge of the footings. He believes that they rebarred into the missed footing and let the wall pour make a new footing. I can live with this, I guess, but what about the walls that are sitting on the edge of the footings? Won’t the footings eventually tip from the weight of the walls? Naturally the extra width of the footings are to the inside, where I have to think the footings will eventually wreck the slabs.
This whole thing is a horror show, and my first reaction was to rip it, but I think everyone concerned would settle for a fix. Any ideas or thoughts?
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A plumber friend of mine just had a foundation poured, and it has a few issues. The ones that concern me are with the footings. The foundation is a 12x12 addition, to an existing stone foundation, with 8 ft high walls. Then it steps down, and joggs out, to a 22x30 with 9-6 high walls. The plans called for rebar, but the way these walls sit on the footings I am wondering why I don't see it showing.
It seems that on one 2 ft jog they missed the footing completely, as in the forms were in hover-mode. Also, I would guess that as much as a quarter of the walls are to one edge of the footings. He believes that they rebarred into the missed footing and let the wall pour make a new footing. I can live with this, I guess, but what about the walls that are sitting on the edge of the footings? Won't the footings eventually tip from the weight of the walls? Naturally the extra width of the footings are to the inside, where I have to think the footings will eventually wreck the slabs.
This whole thing is a horror show, and my first reaction was to rip it, but I think everyone concerned would settle for a fix. Any ideas or thoughts?