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July 2023 #15288 Page #78
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Building Your Own Home – Part V Coming Out of the Ground
By Thomas McAnally TheJobLine.com
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ince breaking ground, the progress made by the foundation and framing crews has been amazing. I know everyone says the fastest part is drying it in, but still I was surprised with the speed everything happened.
The foundation crew, an Amish group out of Logotee Indiana, about 2 hours away, started digging on the 29th of May. Day one saw a complete crawl space and footers dug, formed, ready for concrete. They used a foundation forming system I had never seen called Form-a-Drain. It forms the footer and also is a plastic chase for any water to flow away from the foundation. It terminates in a pipe that runs away from the home, eliminating the need for a dedicated perimeter drain system as it is already built in. The next day footers were poured using a pumping truck, also an Amish company from Montgomery, IN, also 2 hours away. Because we are using a poured concrete foundation for a 3’ crawl space, forms were set on day three. That entailed a lot of steel fit together, pinned, prepped for concrete, and at 2 pm the concrete truck and pump truck came. While the concrete was local, the same Amish pump truck made the 2-hour trip. The end of day four had the foundation walls poured. Forms came down on day five, leaving a nice new concrete foundation (and, by then, the poured piers for the internal beams were in there too).
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