I am planning an 20’x20′ addition that will add a bedroom and bathroom to my house. My building location has 0% chance of getting a concrete truck within 800′ as it is up on top of a hill with a thinly veiled, winding blacktop driveway pushing 20% slope in places.
Can I do some sort of post/pier foundation with some sort of skirting? I live in West Virginia so the cold climate is a concern with the bathroom plumbing although I can run water througn floor joists and main concern is tie in with septic not freezing.
Been having a couplke of sleepless nights on this one……
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Note that there are various options for transporting concrete with a front-end loader or a powered wheelbarrow. (Though I suppose a 20% slope would be challenging for them as well.)
for the cost of a big pump and labor of pumping i would rent a few mixers, hire 3-4 guys and mix your concrete on site and pour. its not easy work but very doable.
Post and pier...
Post and pier can work. So can a block wall foundation.
There are small concrete trucks, they're roughly 3-1/2 yard trucks. Might be an option for your footings if you did a CMU foundation, and it might even be an option for poured walls. One company near me has "Shortstop" trucks. They have a couple of different sizes, 2 yards and 3-1/2 yards.
You can use a mini-truck and a full-sized truck. The full-sized truck stays on the street. The mini runs back and forth from the street back to the construction site, relaying the concrete from the large trucks.
Been leaning towards option of using 24" x 24"cinder block piers sitting on footers below fost line, running water in floor joist and then skirting.
The remoteness of the location is going to make getting the 300+ block and 150+ 80 lb bags of concrete that would be used for tradtional block wall with footer very daunting.
Been leaning towards option of using 24" x 24"cinder block piers sitting on footers below fost line, running water in floor joist and then skirting.
The remoteness of the location is going to make getting the 300+ block and 150+ 80 lb bags of concrete that would be used for tradtional block wall with footer very daunting.