NEW GARAGE EXCAVATION FOOTINGS & FOUNDATION WALLS | JCB and SONS
New Garage excavation, footings, & foundation walls | JCB & SONS. We had
come excavate and put a brand new foundation in for our 24'-0" x 36'-0" Garage in
This big Hi-Hoe made short work of excavating for the new footings.
The footings are poured wider than the wall to make a strong base to carry the new building, and are dug down below the frost line. The groove in the centre is called the key and is used to tie the walls into the footings.
Here are the new foundation walls formed and poured with fresh concrete. The bolts sticking up are the
used to fasten down the new garage we are building.
Gabriel came to inspect our work. We found the main run for a weeping bed that didn't exist in the original permit for the septic during excavating. When we had our footing inspection we discussed it with the building inspector. We went with his recommendation to use a
of 4" ABS under the new garage and than to run the white 3" PVC inside of that for the
for the septic. This sleeve will help protect the white 3" PVC but will also allow for the weeping bed pipe to be replaced if necessary in the future without having to remove the garage floor.
WEST GREY, ONTARIO NEW 24' X 36' GARAGE PREPERATION
West Grey, Ontario new 24' x 36' Garage preparation. We spent this week getting ready for a new foundation from
for our new garage project. We had to move the 14' x 24' garage seen pictured here from the property to make room for our new project.
We removed this building as one piece to utilize it in another location, and so it will be saved and re-used.
The old concrete slab was 10" thick so we enlisted the help of this skid steer and hydraulic breaker from
