The bearing wall footing you see now in the basement will support all this weight and transfer it over a wider area to the soil beneath the footing. To the untrained eye, ...

As shown in the 2015 International Residential Code (as well as previous versions) foundation walls are shown on footings and bearing directly on soil, Figure R403.1(1).

Slightly inside the old footings they sink new, deeper footings for the new basement walls and tie them into the original footings with rebar, or reinforcing bars. An I-beam, ...

When a foundation is poured, its footing—a wide flat base made from concrete and reinforced steel, designed to support the walls—is poured first, and then the walls are poured on top after ...

Frost heaving isn’t just a problem for lawns and gardens; it can also pose serious risks to your home’s basement foundation. This natural process, caused by the freezing and expansion of water ...

Improperly built foundation footings can bring down a house. So, building codes naturally have a few things to say about foundation footings. Like any code recommendations, these are not how-to ...

Footings and Foundations. Foundations are constructed of footings and foundation walls. A footing is the belowground mass, generally made of concrete or brick, that supports the foundation wall.

Q: I am looking for someone to fix a basement problem in our 1966 home. We now have a sump pump in the basement, but when we first moved here in 1975 we had a submersible pump. Every now and then ...

If there is a basement, it may be surrounded by a ledge of dirt that helps hold the walls in place. If people still lived in the houses as their ancestors did, such construction wouldn’t matter.