In a new house that I’m building this year I plan to pour the basement slab before framing commences [structural walls will sit on it]. I plan to pour the interior footings in a monolithic pour at the same time that the slab is poured and finished. The basement structural members are 2×6 framed walls so there are no column isolation issues.
Waddya think? Good idea?
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we do it everyday, in fact 90% are done this way around here.
Weather permitting, we do too.
The only problem can be backfill. To approach close to the hole witha concrete truck, you want the backfill in at one or two corners. We don't like to backfill all the way around unless the floor framing is in place. otherwise an aggressive trac driver can push the wall right in
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amazing.
twenty years in this and i have never seen such a thing.
all i can say is you guys sure make it hard for us repair people.
we do enough oil spill cleanups where the basement floor slab has to come out to know that we wouldn't encourage anyone to do it this way.
we like things as separate components.
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What types of things have you seen that would cause you advise agsinst it?
If you had to remove this slab with radiant heat tubing in it, separating the salb from thickness footing would be the least part of the cost.
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Will your slab be inspected separately from your basement wall footings?
Your inspector might like to see those interior wall bearing footings dug, set with steel, and poured with the footings for your foundation walls. If not, I'd say you should proceed as planned.
good point! I suppose if I have them dug and reinforced at the time of the footing inspection I should be OK. 'Round here the inspections are prety perfuctory though.