Quebec, Canada here. Standard here are 8 foot basements. Lots of dirt. Lots of concrete. Lots of forms. I hate forming but my god is it satisfying when you peel everything off and have nice square and level foundation walls and footings!
I’m a novice so I don’t have a method to share. I really enjoy watching you guys and learning who houses are build. It has helped me deal with contractors working on renovation projects.
Hi Tim. We (TC General & Stiles Construction) have built in many regions and they all have extremely different foundation designs that are required to support the structure sitting on the type of soil (or lack of…) in each area of the country. Pacific Northwest: footing & stemwall. Southeast Texas: slab on grade with concrete grade beams and post tension cables. Northwest Alaska: pilings driven into permafrost and/ or pressure-treated pads under posts supporting the structure. Hawaii: slab on grade or posts on concrete piers depending on if we’re building on sand or bedrock. We are currently working in Grand Bahamas “learning” how they design and build to support their structures. Working in so many areas with extremely different geology and climates, one has to adapt and build to the local conditions and styles. It’s very interesting to see how different things are done different parts of the world.
In Idaho here we do the same as you, only thing different at least in the company I work for is that we string everything one side and we don’t use cleats for footings. Honestly your way of putting everything together and only stringing two sides looks way more efficient.
Nova Scotia, Canada. We do ICF foundations for our jobs. Sometimes we flatten out the whole hole but not always the case so we at least ask the excavators to give us 5’ to work with so we can walk around🎉 comfortably!
I'm not a builder but one that is in the middle of building a home with a GC. Appreciate watching your videos as we go through the process ourselves. We are in the northeast and have a full 8' basement under the entire house (not garage). One thing I noticed on our build is the excavation contractor used a flat attachment on the bucket to scrape the land for the foundation so there is zero loose dirt (vs. having teeth on the bucket).
Your videos are so insightful! As an apprentice in the carpenters union here in Philadelphia, your videos help me stay sharp when it comes to residential building. Keep em coming Perkins!! …. I mean, Tim 😅
In the SF Bay Area we usually trench for the footing and build up forms for a minimum of 8" from grade. Most sites are sloped and the foundation walls tend to be stepped. In the Berkeley hills there are slide zones and the Hayward fault Runs through as well. There caissons with granite penetration are required, or you are required to build essentially a boat out of a rebar cage and concrete. On retrofits that becomes especially fun. We dug out one side, did half then dug out the other side and did the other half. It's the closest thing to freeway overpass construction we normal carpenters do. Foundation wall rebar tends to be 60 grade #4, #6 is not unheard of, 12" OC. Lots of anchor bolts sometimes 2' OC, 4' OC is standard cast in place and holddowns downs. It helps to lay out the framing on the outer form board. Inspectors and engineers like to see J anchor bolt ends under the rebar even though we tend to be ~6" below the top rebar. Oh, 3x mud plates are more and more common. Then a monolithic pour. Either plywood or 2x12 form boards. Then 4,000 or 5,000 psi concrete.
We are building a house in northern NB in canada in the spring on a True Foam fast slab foundation system. Its a FPSF or frost protected shallow foundation. no need for footings and only need to dig down around 18 to 24". very reasonably priced and easy to do. R values range from R-10 up to R-50 depending on what kit
Great job guys!!! 👍👍👍 As a builder on the East End of LI New York most of the new homes are built with 12” D x 24”W footings, 10”W x 8’ to 10’ high foundation walls for full basement construction. Full unfinished basements are the biggest bang for your buck for new construction,it’s not taxed as living space in NY. We install egress windows and an outdoor basement entrance when possible for future finishing off of basement if desired. Size of footings always depends if you hit good sand. If not on good sand ,engineers usually spec a spread footing, which could be anywhere to 3 to 4 feet wide with engineered calculations of rebar sizes. Step footings are built up for garage, which do not have full basements underneath.
We're about to do the same. Just deeper and wider because of frost and soil. Crested Butte, CO. One thing we're going to try is the Form-a-Drain footing and drainage. See how we like it. Then ICF's up to the first floor. Cheers for what you do. I love the humor and knowledge you intricately weave into you videos.
Hiya, jim from England 🏴 here loving your videos and the way you do things over there. Most of are strip footings are 900mm deep 😮 yes 900mm deep
This is awesome, Tim! Thank you so much for making these videos that are making our industry better! I've used some of your videos with my students in my Construction Technology program. Keep up the great work!
Here in northern Michigan I work for a company building custom homes. We do a lot of our foundations with a pre fabricated insulated steel and concrete foundation system called Superior Walls they are made off site and trucked in and set with a crain. The excavator typically excavates everything out flat except for the garage area they usually leave dirt in the middle. We have to go down deep to get the footings below the frost line. The footings for the superior wall system are built-in to the wall and sit on a bed of crushed stone. If we do a poured wall foundation we typically have the excavator dig everything out flat but sometimes in the garage they dig a trench and leave dirt in the middle.
In Southeastern PA. 24”x12”/16” footings 42-48” from frostline. Typically form and pour with rebar verts and horizontals. Some CMU walls but quickly going out of production. Cardinal Coffee!!! IFYKYK
I’m in north east pa. We pour 24w x12 thick footings 42” deep for frost. Poured walls on top with connecting rebar. Precast foundations are also popular here. No footings required. Just tamped gravel bed. Love the videos.
Okanagan Valley. Commercial townhouses we do 2x10 footings (10” height ) and for residential projects 2x6 footings (8” height). And we used 2’ wide easy strip forms from the concrete companies depending where you get your concrete. They are very greasy
Fl panhandle is 95% slab on grade with 12x18 footers or larger on poorly compacted fill dirt. Other 5% is footer/cmu wall. .01% icf which doesnt male sense due to wood cost, our wind code, and huge temp swings between summer and winter. This year we had 104° down to 15. Last icf project i saw the footers looked 28-30" wide.
in central British Columbia we use icf and we pre fab our footings for the most part some we just leave a little long and cut it in place but ill typically pre fab the entire perimeter and cut the strip footings in place we've found it to be faster most times we could do all our footings in a 12-15 hours of work with 3-4 guys and be ready to pour
In Canada I’ve used icf and panels but we use to do 2 foot wide footers are rule of thumb was, 8 inches outside the wall and 8 inches inside, plus the wall thickness, which usually makes it 24 inch, but I’ve done some footers that were 4ft wide with 3 rolls of rebar! But that was a special kind of job tho!
East Tennessee we do concrete footers but we dig a ditch for ours, we never form unless it’s just necessary on the job or a monolithic slab. Sometimes on basements pre cast concrete walls are used. Just depends on the project.
You guys do great work. I was just wondering would it be better to spend the extra money and make a basement if you’re building a new house. Not sure if in your area you’re able to do that.
Here in southern Ontario, it's poured footings and poured foundation. Mostly 8' basements. Footings have to be at least 4' below grade to be below frost line
We dig out flat for the crawlspace or basement and then we dig the footings in the ground to the desired depth and width, using the dirt as forms instead of forming with the wood.
Greetings from the central Oregon coast. Love watching your videos as I prepare to build my dream house on a sloped site high above the Pacific Ocean later this year. I was looking into using ICF for the walkout basement and possibly even a sealed ventilated crawl space but was really bothered by all the plastic waste that’s generated by cutting and handling the foam forms, especially if you plan to apply a parge coat to the surface (the “roughing up” process). There’s already too much plastic waste in the environment and specifically in the ocean and I don’t see any way to keep all those foam particles from just blowing’ in the wind (apologies to Bob Dylan) of which there’s a lot of on the Oregon and Washington coast (wind AND plastic waste, that is). What are your thoughts on this subject? Much appreciation for your dedication to construction education 🙏.
Our method is the same but we monopour with the stem wall. We've even done 10' basement walls at the same time as the footing. That was pushing it a bit.
I'm not a builder, but I recently watched a house foundation being built further down the street and it was a steel mesh re-inforced monolithic concrete slab on compacted non-washed granit/basalt gravel. Probably about 8m x 8m. Climate Zone: Central Germany ~300m elevation.
In L.A. also has the Quakey codes it's either slab or raised foundation, unless you opt for the extra funds for a rare basement,okay Eric, what'd you do to Jamie to keep him quiet?
good look at footings and foundation layout - i tend to think icf forms are taking over - set them and forget them - less labor and insulation built in
•Why not make just one footing under the master bedroom & bath wall and continue it to the back of the foundation, essentially splitting the house in half. Then turn the joist 180 degrees using trussed or TGI joist? •This will eliminate thousands of dollars in footings and you will be able to have a full basement with just one bearing wall down the middle. • figure where your load points are, and put 2 x 2 footings under them, and just and a offset joist & blocking and post to carry the load. • Where the post are is where you will figure your partition walls in your now 8’ basement. • You’re gaining free space that used to cost you money, and now you can actually sell the house for more.
In Atlantic Canada, it is traditionally 8'-0' high cast in place walls or 4'-0" frost walls / with slab - obviously, we need to be below frost. My question to you is why not the FastFoot (Fab-Form) on this job?
I know Kyle personally, he made good money on his post frames before social media and they are high quality. Maybe people are just overusing "perfectionist"?
I am just a hour or two north of you in Vancouver, Canada, We are pretty much always 2ft wide 12''-16'' footings, differences from you are, always a full in ground basement(8ft minimum have gone as deep at 14ft recently) Same 1 1/8x2x10 HDO form panels vertical Biggest difference from you and anywhere I've ever worked is that we always mono pour footings and walls, 2x4 spreaders and panels on top of them. I hate doing it this way, don't like casting 2x4's into the pour and its much harder to get things square on the top edge vs footings first than panels.
Never done footings. Could you pre-build the corners for the forms and use them to do layout? Then you'd just need to cut the straight form boards and the measurements might be quicker.
Hmm, that's interesting. My first reaction is yes, but you would have the extra time in connecting them to the main runs. BUT that may not be an issue at all. I like that idea.
I live in canada so your no where near deep enough for how stuff is built in my world. i kinda like basements so i wouldnt really like alot of american houses
loved the overlay of the plans on the drone shot
I need to do that more often, its a good way to visualize.
I second that!
Quebec, Canada here. Standard here are 8 foot basements. Lots of dirt. Lots of concrete. Lots of forms. I hate forming but my god is it satisfying when you peel everything off and have nice square and level foundation walls and footings!
Cardinal Coffee! 😊
I got to visit those guys and we did indeed get Cardinal Coffee
@@AwesomeFramers That's awesome!
IYKYK
I’m a novice so I don’t have a method to share. I really enjoy watching you guys and learning who houses are build. It has helped me deal with contractors working on renovation projects.
These type of build series is exactly what brought me to you tube cardinal coffee I'm sure many watching this is very familiar with it
Appreciate the shout out to Cardinal Coffee 🤙❤️
Hi Tim. We (TC General & Stiles Construction) have built in many regions and they all have extremely different foundation designs that are required to support the structure sitting on the type of soil (or lack of…) in each area of the country.
Pacific Northwest: footing & stemwall.
Southeast Texas: slab on grade with concrete grade beams and post tension cables.
Northwest Alaska: pilings driven into permafrost and/ or pressure-treated pads under posts supporting the structure.
Hawaii: slab on grade or posts on concrete piers depending on if we’re building on sand or bedrock.
We are currently working in Grand Bahamas “learning” how they design and build to support their structures.
Working in so many areas with extremely different geology and climates, one has to adapt and build to the local conditions and styles.
It’s very interesting to see how different things are done different parts of the world.
I live on a sandbar. Pretty much every home is built on 8x8 pilings. Watching y'all build on foundations is unique to me
I like watching your longer videos the best. Soooo much information.
I'm sitting here editing one that is close to 50 minutes 🙂
You truly are an awesome framer. Thanks for taking the time to create these videos.
In Idaho here we do the same as you, only thing different at least in the company I work for is that we string everything one side and we don’t use cleats for footings. Honestly your way of putting everything together and only stringing two sides looks way more efficient.
Nova Scotia, Canada. We do ICF foundations for our jobs. Sometimes we flatten out the whole hole but not always the case so we at least ask the excavators to give us 5’ to work with so we can walk around🎉 comfortably!
I'm not a builder but one that is in the middle of building a home with a GC. Appreciate watching your videos as we go through the process ourselves.
We are in the northeast and have a full 8' basement under the entire house (not garage).
One thing I noticed on our build is the excavation contractor used a flat attachment on the bucket to scrape the land for the foundation so there is zero loose dirt (vs. having teeth on the bucket).
Your videos are so insightful! As an apprentice in the carpenters union here in Philadelphia, your videos help me stay sharp when it comes to residential building. Keep em coming Perkins!! …. I mean, Tim 😅
I need a Jaimie on my crew
In the SF Bay Area we usually trench for the footing and build up forms for a minimum of 8" from grade. Most sites are sloped and the foundation walls tend to be stepped. In the Berkeley hills there are slide zones and the Hayward fault Runs through as well. There caissons with granite penetration are required, or you are required to build essentially a boat out of a rebar cage and concrete. On retrofits that becomes especially fun. We dug out one side, did half then dug out the other side and did the other half. It's the closest thing to freeway overpass construction we normal carpenters do.
Foundation wall rebar tends to be 60 grade #4, #6 is not unheard of, 12" OC. Lots of anchor bolts sometimes 2' OC, 4' OC is standard cast in place and holddowns downs. It helps to lay out the framing on the outer form board. Inspectors and engineers like to see J anchor bolt ends under the rebar even though we tend to be ~6" below the top rebar. Oh, 3x mud plates are more and more common. Then a monolithic pour. Either plywood or 2x12 form boards. Then 4,000 or 5,000 psi concrete.
We are building a house in northern NB in canada in the spring on a True Foam fast slab foundation system. Its a FPSF or frost protected shallow foundation. no need for footings and only need to dig down around 18 to 24". very reasonably priced and easy to do. R values range from R-10 up to R-50 depending on what kit
Do you need a hand? 🙂
Great job guys!!! 👍👍👍 As a builder on the East End of LI New York most of the new homes are built with 12” D x 24”W footings, 10”W x 8’ to 10’ high foundation walls for full basement construction. Full unfinished basements are the biggest bang for your buck for new construction,it’s not taxed as living space in NY. We install egress windows and an outdoor basement entrance when possible for future finishing off of basement if desired. Size of footings always depends if you hit good sand. If not on good sand ,engineers usually spec a spread footing, which could be anywhere to 3 to 4 feet wide with engineered calculations of rebar sizes. Step footings are built up for garage, which do not have full basements underneath.
Thanks Tim! Always look forward to seeing your next videos. Great narration as always!
We're about to do the same. Just deeper and wider because of frost and soil. Crested Butte, CO. One thing we're going to try is the Form-a-Drain footing and drainage. See how we like it. Then ICF's up to the first floor. Cheers for what you do. I love the humor and knowledge you intricately weave into you videos.
Hiya, jim from England 🏴 here loving your videos and the way you do things over there. Most of are strip footings are 900mm deep 😮 yes 900mm deep
As a builder from the uk I find it quite embarrassing the building practices that are allowed in the USA
@@pauldavies7251that’s why the buildings blow away in a storm 😂 but ill just enjoy the content and learn new things
Really enjoyed the format and editing style in this one
Thank you! I'm trying to get better.
SW Missouri. Trench footing and 12in turndown monolithic slab.
This is awesome, Tim! Thank you so much for making these videos that are making our industry better! I've used some of your videos with my students in my Construction Technology program. Keep up the great work!
Here in northern Michigan I work for a company building custom homes. We do a lot of our foundations with a pre fabricated insulated steel and concrete foundation system called Superior Walls they are made off site and trucked in and set with a crain. The excavator typically excavates everything out flat except for the garage area they usually leave dirt in the middle. We have to go down deep to get the footings below the frost line. The footings for the superior wall system are built-in to the wall and sit on a bed of crushed stone. If we do a poured wall foundation we typically have the excavator dig everything out flat but sometimes in the garage they dig a trench and leave dirt in the middle.
Beautiful (form)work! It may not be pretty, but if its square, straight and level its a beautiful thing!
Great video. Helps while we're looking for our first home buy. ❤
I like all video from this guy....
Thanks!!
Timmy the Maestro! Thank for Sharing
In Southeastern PA.
24”x12”/16” footings 42-48” from frostline. Typically form and pour with rebar verts and horizontals. Some CMU walls but quickly going out of production.
Cardinal Coffee!!! IFYKYK
Thank you for the education!
Great videos.
I’m in north east pa. We pour 24w x12 thick footings 42” deep for frost. Poured walls on top with connecting rebar. Precast foundations are also popular here. No footings required. Just tamped gravel bed. Love the videos.
great effect at 9:35
Great production. Very educational. Thank you
Thank you for all the detailed videos!
Okanagan Valley. Commercial townhouses we do 2x10 footings (10” height ) and for residential projects 2x6 footings (8” height). And we used 2’ wide easy strip forms from the concrete companies depending where you get your concrete. They are very greasy
Amazing content as always 👍🏻
Thanks Tim.
Cardinal Coffee - nice reference! lol
Perfect is understanding the appropriate tolerance for a given task. Those footings are in practice “perfect”.
Fl panhandle is 95% slab on grade with 12x18 footers or larger on poorly compacted fill dirt. Other 5% is footer/cmu wall. .01% icf which doesnt male sense due to wood cost, our wind code, and huge temp swings between summer and winter. This year we had 104° down to 15. Last icf project i saw the footers looked 28-30" wide.
in central British Columbia we use icf and we pre fab our footings for the most part some we just leave a little long and cut it in place but ill typically pre fab the entire perimeter and cut the strip footings in place we've found it to be faster most times we could do all our footings in a 12-15 hours of work with 3-4 guys and be ready to pour
In Canada I’ve used icf and panels but we use to do 2 foot wide footers are rule of thumb was, 8 inches outside the wall and 8 inches inside, plus the wall thickness, which usually makes it 24 inch, but I’ve done some footers that were 4ft wide with 3 rolls of rebar! But that was a special kind of job tho!
nicely explained sir
Central California is slab on grade foundations with perimeter footings.
Perfect is the enemy of good
East Tennessee we do concrete footers but we dig a ditch for ours, we never form unless it’s just necessary on the job or a monolithic slab. Sometimes on basements pre cast concrete walls are used. Just depends on the project.
Here in Kansas.. mostly poured concrete full basement.
Alberta Canada. Poured foundation basment
You guys do great work. I was just wondering would it be better to spend the extra money and make a basement if you’re building a new house. Not sure if in your area you’re able to do that.
Here in southern Ontario, it's poured footings and poured foundation. Mostly 8' basements. Footings have to be at least 4' below grade to be below frost line
We dig out flat for the crawlspace or basement and then we dig the footings in the ground to the desired depth and width, using the dirt as forms instead of forming with the wood.
Just along for the ride...
Greetings from the central Oregon coast. Love watching your videos as I prepare to build my dream house on a sloped site high above the Pacific Ocean later this year. I was looking into using ICF for the walkout basement and possibly even a sealed ventilated crawl space but was really bothered by all the plastic waste that’s generated by cutting and handling the foam forms, especially if you plan to apply a parge coat to the surface (the “roughing up” process). There’s already too much plastic waste in the environment and specifically in the ocean and I don’t see any way to keep all those foam particles from just blowing’ in the wind (apologies to Bob Dylan) of which there’s a lot of on the Oregon and Washington coast (wind AND plastic waste, that is). What are your thoughts on this subject?
Much appreciation for your dedication to construction education 🙏.
We dig our footings in Cali no crawl space, slab on grade. The garage gets a stem wall.
Our method is the same but we monopour with the stem wall.
We've even done 10' basement walls at the same time as the footing. That was pushing it a bit.
I'm not a builder, but I recently watched a house foundation being built further down the street and it was a steel mesh re-inforced monolithic concrete slab on compacted non-washed granit/basalt gravel. Probably about 8m x 8m. Climate Zone: Central Germany ~300m elevation.
Lol Cardinal Coffee, I got that reference
In L.A. also has the Quakey codes it's either slab or raised foundation, unless you opt for the extra funds for a rare basement,okay Eric, what'd you do to Jamie to keep him quiet?
The standard foundation in Texas is post-tension slab on grade. That soil bucks like a bull and basements just don’t handle it well.
Curious on your thoughts on Form-a-Drain product.
In Belgium, most of the time just slab on grade without crawl space or basement. Outer rim or bearing walls footings go 80cm deep and 45cm wide.
good look at footings and foundation layout - i tend to think icf forms are taking over - set them and forget them - less labor and insulation built in
We keep pricing ICF here is it is just cost prohibitive. But we are a very mild climate.
•Why not make just one footing under the master bedroom & bath wall and continue it to the back of the foundation, essentially splitting the house in half. Then turn the joist 180 degrees using trussed or TGI joist?
•This will eliminate thousands of dollars in footings and you will be able to have a full basement with just one bearing wall down the middle.
• figure where your load points are, and put 2 x 2 footings under them, and just and a offset joist & blocking and post to carry the load.
• Where the post are is where you will figure your partition walls in your now 8’ basement.
• You’re gaining free space that used to cost you money, and now you can actually sell the house for more.
Are those Mylar plans?
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, you sir are a genius! 😂❤
Mostly crawlspaces where we area. Hopefully you are building an encapsulated conditioned crawlspace!
Let Jamie Talk!
Foundations are mostly slab on grade here in San Antonio.
In Atlantic Canada, it is traditionally 8'-0' high cast in place walls or 4'-0" frost walls / with slab - obviously, we need to be below frost. My question to you is why not the FastFoot (Fab-Form) on this job?
Any chance you would make those plans available. ( or for sale) We are looking to build a spec in central Mi with very similar construction.
“You’ll never make money as a perfectionist” *enter Kyle Stumpenhorst
I know Kyle personally, he made good money on his post frames before social media and they are high quality.
Maybe people are just overusing "perfectionist"?
Any chance for a video series about an underground bunker? Or is it a bit late for that now?
We probably will never build one.
I am just a hour or two north of you in Vancouver, Canada, We are pretty much always 2ft wide 12''-16'' footings, differences from you are,
always a full in ground basement(8ft minimum have gone as deep at 14ft recently)
Same 1 1/8x2x10 HDO form panels vertical
Biggest difference from you and anywhere I've ever worked is that we always mono pour footings and walls, 2x4 spreaders and panels on top of them. I hate doing it this way, don't like casting 2x4's into the pour and its much harder to get things square on the top edge vs footings first than panels.
Here it’s a solid slab of concrete, it there’s any form setting the concrete guys do it.
👍👍
Do you primarily build spec homes? I have heard horror stories about that model.
Yep, dad started in 1978. Always have done some custom, some spec. We are currently moving back into custom because interest rates are so high.
Like they say back in the old country (Canada), if you can frame a doghouse you can frame a house. I’d totally let Tim frame my doghouse
if you could make these videos about 3x longer, that would be greeaate
The next videos are all much longer. The video framing out the crawlspace I'm working as I type is about 48 minutes
This guy is the modern larry huan
Curious to know what a carpenter gets paid over your way? I'm based in Australia
SWFL: batter boards and trenches, that’s it
I liked the part where you built a house.
Never done footings. Could you pre-build the corners for the forms and use them to do layout? Then you'd just need to cut the straight form boards and the measurements might be quicker.
Hmm, that's interesting. My first reaction is yes, but you would have the extra time in connecting them to the main runs. BUT that may not be an issue at all. I like that idea.
What method do I use? Well, Lego interlock squarely to begin with, so, I let the Lego do all of the work. Perfect ninety-degree corners every time.
I hope you are on a big lot with no stream buffers for there to be no surveyor involved. 😬
6 3/4 acres, we are on top. We know what we're doing 👍
Great to see mushrooms on the stakes. A lot of UA-camrs don't do that.
Hey I think you might be my dad. Let’s play catch cmon
Nice troll has emerged.😂
The regret is, I can only subscribe once. I guess I could unsubscribe and resubscribe.
😁😁
I live in canada so your no where near deep enough for how stuff is built in my world. i kinda like basements so i wouldnt really like alot of american houses
LOOKS LIKE TRASH BUT THE GUYS WERE CUTE :)
It’s ok to send some money to Cardinal Coffee for the Perkins crew! 😎🔨🪜🪚🔩🪛🧰💸💵