This has plagued me for years, and I just have to get to the bottom of it …
When is a footer a footing … or is it the other way around?
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Veeeerrry Interrresssttting but... I believe the answer may lie in the original terminology's word source and would need the analytic and historical pursuit of precision from Phil.
Let the thunder crack and the waves roar.
We're going on.
Edited 12/1/2002 11:48:57 AM ET by rez
Maybe it has something to do with whether it is under a shoulder wall, or a kneewall ?
: )
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Footings are a support structure
Footers are a measurement of wave height ;-PSteelkilt Lives!
The question should be "Where" not "When". In California it is a footing.