BeelMX
11-12-2003, 05:30 PM
Forum,
We'll be putting our 2-story home's footer on rough rocky soil in the Hill Country of Texas (known as Edward's Plateau). We'll have a crawlspace. There is a lot of limestone in the area.
1.) Without a sub-zero temp. concern in this part of TX, is there a particular depth I should go down? (We're not in a city with a building code.)
2.) If we hit a limestone bed, which we've seen on other parts of our property, do we: Cut into it, level it out, and pour the footer there? Try to get through to the bottom of it? Go with it as-is, not level, putting rebar down into it vertically to 'tie it in' to our footer? Or other?
As always, thanks for any advice!
BeelMX
We'll be putting our 2-story home's footer on rough rocky soil in the Hill Country of Texas (known as Edward's Plateau). We'll have a crawlspace. There is a lot of limestone in the area.
1.) Without a sub-zero temp. concern in this part of TX, is there a particular depth I should go down? (We're not in a city with a building code.)
2.) If we hit a limestone bed, which we've seen on other parts of our property, do we: Cut into it, level it out, and pour the footer there? Try to get through to the bottom of it? Go with it as-is, not level, putting rebar down into it vertically to 'tie it in' to our footer? Or other?
As always, thanks for any advice!
BeelMX