FOUNDATION QUIZ for 14 AUG 04

[Ralph Jones]

Good Evening Friends,
You are going to construct a new house and the footing bottom is 40" below finished grade, and you are going to pour 8" of concrete for the footer.

How many concrete block will you need to have two block exposed above finished grade?

Respectfully, :)

[fxst]

about 35 minutes
Pete

[duckman]

Depends on the size of the concrete blocks Ralph. I assume from the wording of your question that this style of footing is common place in the US and that the blocks are always the same size?

[Bob Willson]

7

[ozwinner]

42


Al

[Ralph Jones]

Good Evening Friends,
I keep forgetting that you blokes do things a little differently than we do up here.
Yes, the blocks for foundation walls are mostly 8" x 8" x 16 up here.
So if the bottom of the footing is 40" below finished grade and you pour an 8" footer then it would take 6 courses of block to be two blocks above finished grade.
Example; 40" - 8"footer = 32" to finish grade, so 32/8= 4 + 2 = 6 Blocks.

Thank you for your support.

Respectfully, :)

[Ivan in Oz]

Nah!!
box it up and Concrete it.
That's what I did for the Bath/ Laundry/ Rumpus Room

The soil out here is Very [and sometimes] Ultra Reactive.
Dry as billio and Cracks,
or wet as a flood and swells

Ivan in Oz

[duckman]

You didn't happen to throw a body in first did you Ivan? You seem to really like your concrete. :D :D

[Ralph Jones]

Hey Duckman,
That is the reason he has no one against him as he already has them in his concrete. LOL.

[Bob Willson]

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