Posted: 8/19/2015 10:12:02 AM EDT
Last night while taking a walk around the neighborhood, one of the new homes being built caught my attention. The foundation looked fucky from a distance. The subfloor was already down, so what caught my eye were the foundation walls having "keys" sticking out for the garage slab to ride on once it's poured. When I walked up I realized the foundation walls for the garage/porch were 4" wide  There were ties bolted in the corners too, so first thought was pre-fab, but I've never seen a prefab foundation and this sucker was seamless at the corners. I walked around the side to admire the finished face on the walls, then felt the humidity pouring out from under the sub floor...slab was just poured...also weird to me, but I may be dumb. I looked in the opening where the stairs will go and saw the foundation walls had aluminum studs with foam board against the concrete, something didn't look right again so I stuck my hand in. The foundation walls were only 4" all the way around, plus the aluminum studs, and then capped off with concrete so looking from the outside it appears to be a proper width.
I'm no contractor, I just know enough to be real dangerous, what the hell was I looking at? Pre-fab? Some new green building bullshit? Or the cleanest foundation in history? |
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Pre-fab sections, probably. Google "Superior Foundations" and "Envirocast." Yup, looked just like the superior foundation, but there were no seems? At least nothing more obvious than what a form would leave. How the shit are they putting a 6" sill plate on a 4" wall? |
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Yup, looked just like the superior foundation, but there were no seems? At least nothing more obvious than what a form would leave. How the shit are they putting a 6" sill plate on a 4" wall? Quoted:
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Pre-fab sections, probably. Google "Superior Foundations" and "Envirocast." Yup, looked just like the superior foundation, but there were no seems? At least nothing more obvious than what a form would leave. How the shit are they putting a 6" sill plate on a 4" wall? They're not. I'm sure they're using 2x4 mud sills. |