Any advice on sizing footers for load bearing walls in a basement. Building a new house and I want to design using walls instead of steel posts to support the first floor. I plan on using 2×6 for these walls.
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footings are sized according to the load.
If you made them the same as the perimeter footings...............................you'd probably be fine.
But, surrounding those posts with a wall would do the same, lower the amount of concrete you'd need for footings.
With a 2x6 wall, you'd have no problem covering the tilt of those posts.
So, your cost difference, minus the labor, would be the difference in a beam or a continuous footing.
And of course, when you pour the floor. If no beam, then you'd have to pour and build the wall vs. post and beam.