My hubby is a retired residential contractor, & we were on our job sites every day making sure everything was clean & organized. That kept us, the homeowners & the neighbors happy!! We're in South Louisiana - if we dug crawl spaces, they'd be in water!! 😵💫😉 Can't wait to see this build!! 👍
Enjoying watching your build. I'm going to be building a new house on about an acre of land in Northeast Thailand. We actually need to raise the part where we put the house by just over one meter just so we don't have any flooding problems. I will be building a pond and a lot of that dirt will be used for the area that the house will is going to be.
We’re on a flat site and want a crawlspace for mechanicals, electrical and plumbing, AND still be close to the ground for ADA wheelchair access. So we dig the footings extra deep and the dig out just the space inside after the footings are in so that we don’t have to over-dig so much to get an excavator in to dig the footings if we were to bulldoze down first. This way, we have much less dirt to stockpile now and then deal with later (200 lf of foundation x 3 ft over dig x 2ft depth = 1200 cubic feet of dirt!)
@@HeirloomBuilders I just a video by Matt Risinger where the house is on a slab, and I think the floor is on sleepers, but they have a basement just in the center of the house for mechanicals, making it easier to retrofit plumbing. Seemed like a clever way to avoid plumbing and heating getting buried in concrete.
Are you watching on a tv? Most people watch UA-cam on their phone now, and even though, like you, I don’t like it, that’s the best viewing format for phones. 🥴
My hubby is a retired residential contractor, & we were on our job sites every day making sure everything was clean & organized. That kept us, the homeowners & the neighbors happy!! We're in South Louisiana - if we dug crawl spaces, they'd be in water!! 😵💫😉 Can't wait to see this build!! 👍
This is how professionals operate.
Enjoying watching your build. I'm going to be building a new house on about an acre of land in Northeast Thailand. We actually need to raise the part where we put the house by just over one meter just so we don't have any flooding problems. I will be building a pond and a lot of that dirt will be used for the area that the house will is going to be.
Perfect!
Those wood chips around will attract termites
I dont comment often but I'm learning alot from watching you folks.
Wouldn't it be easier to level the building site with a bulldozer and then dig the foundations ?
Seems like it's really slow doing it with a backhoe
We’re on a flat site and want a crawlspace for mechanicals, electrical and plumbing, AND still be close to the ground for ADA wheelchair access. So we dig the footings extra deep and the dig out just the space inside after the footings are in so that we don’t have to over-dig so much to get an excavator in to dig the footings if we were to bulldoze down first. This way, we have much less dirt to stockpile now and then deal with later (200 lf of foundation x 3 ft over dig x 2ft depth = 1200 cubic feet of dirt!)
@@HeirloomBuilders so it's almost like a 1/2 basement ?
How do you waterproof it ?
@@HeirloomBuilders I just a video by Matt Risinger where the house is on a slab, and I think the floor is on sleepers, but they have a basement just in the center of the house for mechanicals, making it easier to retrofit plumbing. Seemed like a clever way to avoid plumbing and heating getting buried in concrete.
@@tomlampros7122 good idea. Thanks for sharing.
I thot u werent suposed 2 dig below the footers?
We dig down to the TOP of the footings.
I will not watch a video in the format
Are you watching on a tv? Most people watch UA-cam on their phone now, and even though, like you, I don’t like it, that’s the best viewing format for phones. 🥴
@@HeirloomBuilders What, people can't turn their phone sideways?