How Footings Work In A Foundation

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A footing in construction is the lowest part of the foundation that makes contact with the ground.
Without it the structure will eventually settle and fall apart.
Usually made with concrete and rebar, they are placed underneath loadbearing walls to distribute the weight of a house or a building.
Trench footers like these are dug into the ground using a backhoe or an excavator.
The ditch itself becomes the form for the concrete.
Footings, sometimes called footers, can also be formed using 2 x 10 s or other materials like Form-a-drain.
It’s critical that footings be placed on original undisturbed ground that can support the weight of the structure.
The bottom of the footing must be lower than the lowest depth that the ground can freeze in your region.
If the ground freezes below the footing it can actually lift the entire house and cause major structural damage.
Rebar is placed horizontally in footings to give the concrete tensile strength and is held up off the ground with chairs.
Vertical rebar can also be placed into footings leaving part of it sticking out. This part eventually becomes poured into the foundation walls tying the two together.
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@The89delta 7 месяцев назад

The orange stoppers are for if you fall, you won’t get empaled. In case anyone was wondering.

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

True

@nicholastoovey1925 7 месяцев назад

You think a little plastic mushroom is going to stop that rebar from going through you 😅

@coreywixsom6278 7 месяцев назад

@@nicholastoovey1925absolutely- I’ve seen it demonstrated

@steveniksid5874 7 месяцев назад

@@nicholastoovey1925 The plastic rebar caps are embedded with steel.

@RandoHandle 7 месяцев назад

@@nicholastoovey1925I would say it depends on force you’re falling with. They’re still a positive though.

@REALBanannaman 7 месяцев назад

Construction is the most important thing today. Too much junk is being built so doing it right deserves applause!

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

👍👍

@RealZachAttack28 7 месяцев назад

Yep darn right

@ChipChurp 7 месяцев назад

Cheapo scummy builders hiring drunks druggies and under the table illegal immigrants labor and charge premium prices. It's not a new problem has been since around the 1980s but worse since after the 2008 crisis. Always always get your own home inspector don't listen to the realtor they are in cahoots to get the closing done and get paid. It's your money carry due diligence and act accordingly. There are GREAT AMERICAN BUILDERS still. Research.this Guy has solid builds love from Nebraska

@tztezza 7 месяцев назад

@@RealZachAttack28but that wasn’t correct it was sloppy and lazy and the starters only pushed into the concrete..that is what’s meant to lock your building together and they didn’t even do that

@jonslg240 7 месяцев назад

@@tztezza I'm pretty sure you're right and thus your comment will get deleted 😂 mine too I'm sure

@the_steamtrain1642 Месяц назад

Dunno if you're still reading these but fun fact, here in the Netherlands (EU) the solid ground you're talking about is so deep that all buildings except basic sheds are built on metal pillars driven into the ground and filled with concrete, basically all houses here are built on poles. And they go pretty deep as well, multiple segments are just slammed into the ground by special machines, sorry, don't know the english terminology, these "heimachines" can get several stories tall as well and make a constant klanking noise as they drive the "heipalen" in. Even for our house extention we had to rent a crane to get 1 of these in our backyard

@Telogor Месяц назад

In English, those "poles" are called piles, and the machines are piledrivers.

@dutchgiggler4824 Месяц назад

The footings are different depending on the soil, at least they should be. Some places in London have shallow footings when the ground is lime

@devinhall1631 Месяц назад

Different Pilings for different reasons , nothing is forever everything moves eventually

@emircona5649 Месяц назад

Thats only in some parts of the netherlands. In the South of the netherlands you have the same scenario as in the video.

@michaeldavid2894 Месяц назад

It's called piles hence the term pile drivers

@anim8torfiddler871 5 месяцев назад

I know I'm not the only person who has dug a footing for an addition with a shovel, NOT a Backhoe. Glad to say, I only had to do that a few days of the time I was doing construction. Valuable experience, so I had skills I could use for my own projects decades later.

@oftin_wong Месяц назад

I did that also and after about 48 huge barrows of mud I had finished my footing ..I then wore out a shovel building that project, limestone shed

@Bob-cp2eg Месяц назад

You are not alone. I mixed the concrete in a wheelbarrow.

@isaacdiaz6153 Месяц назад

Work for a concrete company and that shit sucks

@GHMYahooka 11 дней назад

I used to do whole houses. We had a little help from heavy equipment sometimes but a lot of times we hand did it especially for interior. I find it odd there is no visquine or big spray being done before the pour

@kip8790 7 месяцев назад

Fun fact…the term footings comes from the early days of brick houses which were often built in shallow trenches and the bricks laid straight onto dirt but 3 bricks wide, which measures a foot. After 2 or 3 courses this would be reduced to the normal (in the uk) 2 bricks width before reaching above ground. This was called a foot-in and was done simply to spread the load and reduce the chance of movement.

@bashkillszombies 2 месяца назад

Pretty sure it's because it's the foot of the house. I've lived in 1,000+ year old houses in the UK and their footing is absolutely not a foot, they're huge. Hell most houses over 200-300 years old have 3-4 foot walls, so that makes no sense. 2 brick width walls is a post industrial revolution thing, way after footings became a term. Just because something sounds like something doesn't mean it's related.

@magicbox9371 2 месяца назад

And a grade beam drinks Jim Beam =p

@magicbox9371 2 месяца назад

@@bashkillszombiessoil conditions and load dictate minimum requirements but if you like big feet…..

@Jonathan_Doe_ Месяц назад

Movement was also slightly less of an issue during Victorian times, as more flexible lime mortar was used, so cracking was less likely.

@d0ksa Месяц назад

Nephilim foot

@ripcut28 7 месяцев назад

In the old days, we dug footers with square shovels. It was terrible work, especially with a hangover.

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

I bet

@Fargoleafy Месяц назад

Now we dig footings with Mexicans

@GHMYahooka 11 дней назад

haha nothing like staying up till 2am drinking and doin blow and that truck pulls up at 5am. Good thing we were usually done by 2 so we could go home and sleep.

@hansdampf6777 7 месяцев назад

will never ever in my life forget digging trenches in australia. the clay was rock hard and at one point my blisters had blisters 😂

@frankievassallo552 7 месяцев назад

Same here back in the 90s in Puerto Rico. Now in the present you will not convince me to do this with a pickaxe and a shovel 😅

@alfa_romeo55yush82 7 месяцев назад

known as sand stone.

@yolo_burrito 7 месяцев назад

You probably didn’t have to worry about the ground ever freezing though.

@davidgray8089 7 месяцев назад

@@alfa_romeo55yush82 Sand stone isn't clay, buddy, though it can sometimes contain clay.

@davidgray8089 7 месяцев назад

Built a hospital on river till clay once. When we dug footings we had to use a spade bit jackhammer to square the corners as you couldn't get a shovel or pick into it.

@spacecreep007 7 месяцев назад

As an electrical engineer, its cool to learn more about the structural side of the job. I had no idea about all of the thought that went into concrete footings, I always thought you guys did that just to get in the way of my conduit runs 😅

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

We usually have a secret meeting before we start a job and plan how we can make everything super difficult for the electricians 😂😂👍

@RealZachAttack28 7 месяцев назад

@@hausplansLOL😂😂

@trickyricky12147 7 месяцев назад

@@hausplansYep and you guys meet up at the brick mason's house 😂👍

@Quackerstacker1973 7 месяцев назад

Nobody likes electricians .

@teaganthornbrue 7 месяцев назад

@@trickyricky12147 true, the mortar is harder for the sparkys to make excessive holes in

@tubalcain1 Месяц назад

"Without a footing a structure will settle and eventually fall apart"..... My house was built in 1921 out of Adobe and placed DIRECTLY on the ground with NO FOOTING. It still stands strong today in the year 2024!!

@balukus1107 14 дней назад

Mine too… 1901 and no footing 👍🏻

@DueySR 10 дней назад

Survivorship bias

@tubalcain1 10 дней назад

@@DueySR I don't know what that means... im sorry.

@ronaldlebeck9577 7 месяцев назад

We have to use different techniques up here in Alaska due to the permafrost. I don't think you'd want to dig down as far as 2,000 ft to get below it. That might be worth showing sometime.

@imonthewinningside8281 6 месяцев назад

You got me. 😮😮😮 I saw your comment and immediately Googled - permafrost in Alaska. 😮😮😮 I guess the top of the world is just completely frozen!

@ronaldlebeck9577 6 месяцев назад

@@imonthewinningside8281 The "Physics Girl" channel did a video on the permafrost up here. One scene shows a small apartment building that's sinking in the center...it's not far from where I live. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VMJPHqwv41U.htmlsi=smB1dHNnsbVGXVIX

@clivewilliams3661 6 месяцев назад

Also, in UK non-reinforced trench fill foundations are the norm

@estariomartis7955 6 месяцев назад

That foundation is not properly constructed. The rebarbs are lacking cross stirrups every 6" apart.

@trazcotraz2798 6 месяцев назад

For this reason are the ways to make the footing that "cheat" the freazing depth. Also, when you have a shalow granit plate in the cd climate, you don't want to dig in the rock

@ECO-AFRO 6 месяцев назад

I place RU-vid among the 10 top inventions of all time. Wow! Knowledge like this. Priceless❤

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

Agree, we were in Moldova and met a man who built an entire American style house just from watching RU-vid videos. Super impressive!

@dale8809 7 месяцев назад

I know of three friends who bought new houses within the last 15 years in developments whose houses have settled creating cracks in the foundation, brick and drywall issues. Sounds like an important step to get right!

@chaderickson5647 6 месяцев назад

What can a home owner do? If find issues

@allenbowick4716 6 месяцев назад

Here round Charleston, builders & engineers design these house pads where I have personally seen up to 8 foot of wet clay dirt used for the building pad. Even though they pass compaction tests they still pump or move. It will take years to settle out. All this filling of swamps to pack as many houses per acre they can fit.

@jacob1121 6 месяцев назад

@@chaderickson5647 Survey the land and take drill samples before building to check if you need poles in the ground. Amending issues after the house is built is prohibitively expensive as you have to raise the house on jacks to even it out and put poles in.

@WallaceChamberlain-b2e 6 месяцев назад

They could be monolithic slabs. They don't have a separate footing you tie into.

@gregswank4912 6 месяцев назад

@@WallaceChamberlain-b2ewhere do they do that? That wouldn’t meet code requirements for any residential or commercial building in Colorado. That might pass for a shed here, but it would be guaranteed to crack and move for anything larger. The slabs for my driveway and patio both cracked and moved, but my foundation footers 8’ below grade haven’t moved a millimeter.

@GuyTaber 7 месяцев назад

Straight to the point great job

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

Thanks

@28Krocker 2 месяца назад

Great video, short, precise information with zero opinion or unnecessary explanations.

@hausplans 2 месяца назад

Thanks

@tricktap8502 Месяц назад

Actually learned a lot..thanks to all the folks who keep society functioning and building houses for people.

@loridave1962 7 месяцев назад

As one person stated, drainage is important, and pour soil must be removed. Please do not assume natural undisturbed soil will adequately support your structure. And, natural soil can have varying degrees of firmness. After excavating any bad soil and the footing trench, use a vibratory compactor to compress the exposed soil. Place some fractured rock or fractured gravel (similar to what is used to make highway asphalt or high quality concrete) over your compacted soil. Then compact that rook/gravel. Then start forming.

@cameronhamer9432 7 месяцев назад

He’s showing footings being poured without form work , poor construction technique when settlement occurs the uneven concrete won’t settle evenly , the excavation must allow for drain tile and crushed stone for drainage even with the bottom of the footing . I worked as a inspector , retired now . I wouldn’t pass those footings . 👍🇨🇦

@joshperrythree 7 месяцев назад

This technique is acceptable depending on the soil composition. This is the same technique used when building roadway bridges and culverts all over the world. (I've designed them for over 20 years).

@cameronhamer9432 7 месяцев назад

@@joshperrythree I’ve got a lifetime of experience , concrete without form work dries to quickly and has rough uneven edges that not only reduce strength , but it deteriorates without a smooth finish . Drainage is so important , maybe you live in a desert , but here in wet coastal conditions your going to have different types of problems without any . 👍🇨🇦

@MrJohnboyofsj 7 месяцев назад

My homes footings have drain tile beside them, and I noticed this video the footers do not

@michaelmcgee2026 7 месяцев назад

@cameronhamer9432 you nailed it when you described the region. You don't know the code for desert so don't just assume it'd fail inspection. You guys are just a bunch of Karens these days.

@Justleeconstruction 7 месяцев назад

Only thing I would change is the chairs. Should use plastic or concrete chairs to support the rebar to avoid rust reaching the rebar. Also when placing the dowels you should make sure that none of them are touching the ground below. Other than that, this is beautiful work

@joshperrythree 7 месяцев назад

Steel chairs are pretty typical. Water is going to get to the rebar through the concrete no matter what.

@havardpedersen1138 7 месяцев назад

@@joshperrythree Rebars wont rust inside concrete due to the high ph, but over time, carbon from the atmosphere will penetrate, lowering the ph and allow the rebar to rust.

@metalrooves3651 7 месяцев назад

in missouri clay the number a square foot will hold up is 2100 pounds..this is good to know as a footing 2 feet wide will support 4000 pounds per running foot,,thats alot,but pole buildings must have a cookie under each post.

@metalrooves3651 7 месяцев назад

i wouldnt woory about that 150 year rust problem!It would be more important that it gets VIBRATED..SUCH an easy way to get the voids out and add unreal strengh...an easy gain of 13%!

@georgesoso4907 7 месяцев назад

I think I can help with this argument, I identify as a Steel Chair. I like it when I get a load on me.

@WesleyAPEX Месяц назад

I live in Texas. The ground freezes about 1” only during the coldest cold snaps and it lasts about 8 hours.

@jjthor407 5 месяцев назад

I plan on doing a small amount of concrete work on my own . This was a good video to watch to see how rebar works and how it should be placed !

@hausplans 5 месяцев назад

👍

@myronperish1778 Месяц назад

Well spoken. Very simple explanation with no fluff! Plus a huge benefit you didn't stand in front of the camera blocking the view of the content! Well done

@hm6806 5 месяцев назад

My dad isn't an engineer but he had so much talent in construction work, for building our house he dug the whole area 2 meters deep, then made footing with what he called cement cookies, which he made himself, on the bottom of the footing to make the rebar not touch the ground, even though I knew very little on construction works but his work was nothing but beautiful and clean.

@DennisSmith-dq6iu 3 месяца назад

What’s a meter

@hm6806 3 месяца назад

@@DennisSmith-dq6iu its something convenient that you can use with every country in the world except for the US

@DennisSmith-dq6iu 3 месяца назад

@@hm6806 exactly why we are #1 in the world

@hm6806 3 месяца назад

@@DennisSmith-dq6iu economically and military speaking yes, as for everything else, no.

@michiganborn8303 Месяц назад

Cement cookies don't sound very delicious..even with milk. 😂

@probuilder961 7 месяцев назад

This is so relaxing for me to watch. I love watching things being done correctly.

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

👍

@rthedberg 7 месяцев назад

I model foundations and like to think of them as either strip footings or pad footings. Strip footings typically hold walls and pad footings typically have piers and hold the vertical steel. Everything in life requires a strong foundation!

@TEKTONTIM1956 Месяц назад

Exceptional post. After 40+ years in construction…… it is always great to hear “CONCRETE” and not cement. …. People… cement is only a component of THE CONCRETE.

@FrankTheTank417 7 месяцев назад

Please make more videos like this, so I can save them to a playlist when I start building my own house/commercial building. Cheers!

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

👍

@WilliamHollinger2019 7 месяцев назад

Yeah get lots of permits too from local government.

@657spy 7 месяцев назад

If you want to so it wrong. Not smart.

@rickgeller2751 7 месяцев назад

Finally someone knows the proper processes for concrete footing. Those footings were big enough to handle the weight of a structure

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

Thanks

@Watthead80 7 месяцев назад

Footings can be placed on fill material, so long as it was compacted to the engineers specifications.

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

That is correct, it’s hard to fit in all the different scenarios and details into a short video

@estebanrivera8820 6 месяцев назад

Our ground is too unstable. We always over excavate and then fill and compact for any type of building.

@Ali-7676 6 месяцев назад

Thanks, was just about to ask something related to this as we want to raise the elevation of the lot by a few feet before we start to build.

@jamesjackson5075 6 месяцев назад

Soil bearing capacity

@AveragePatriarchy 6 месяцев назад

Native soil is always better and ideal but sometimes that isn't available.

@BumperStickerSuperstore Месяц назад

Everyone should work construction atleast a season or two in their life. There's so much free knowledge tossed around that i use even to this day that i learned in a short few years working construction.

@JohnCoffins 7 месяцев назад

That's what I do for a living. Everyone does it a little bit differently but yup that's a footing.

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

👍👍

@power2thepeople53 7 месяцев назад

IW 498 Rockford Il. 147 B#

@Mirendil1 6 месяцев назад

Would it be useful to put some kind of insulation from humidity behind the footing?

@JohnCoffins 6 месяцев назад

@@Mirendil1 well different people will tell you different things but we've never done that and we've never had a failure in 25 years. Pretty much everyone puts plastic on top of the dirt on their slab though before they pour concrete. Even if you put a layer in the footing, water will still get to it when it rains and it'll probably just collect in the plastic.

@jerryrigsit5400 7 месяцев назад

Yup, nice and simple explanation. I've got a cabin to build but will be using piers

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

Good luck!

@darrellroeters4951 7 месяцев назад

That will likely heave and settle

@jerryrigsit5400 7 месяцев назад

@@darrellroeters4951 lots of houses built on piers

@jerryrigsit5400 7 месяцев назад

@@darrellroeters4951 lots of people use piers

@catchasindog 6 месяцев назад

If you know when to stack the rocks,that will be fine. Old log homes I seen didn't have footing

@hitmanzerosix9978 7 месяцев назад

That's cute. Using a backhoe/excavator to dig the footers. I cannot remember how many I dug by hand growing up working with my dad. Y'all got it easy! And this was in Northern Michigan in gravel ground. We dug minimum 3' deep by 2' wide.

@bartomiejo.8303 6 месяцев назад

I could watch this all day long

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@Lord_OTD 2 месяца назад

Your cooking videos are so cool it’s easy to forget how great a construction worker you are 😅.

@hausplans 2 месяца назад

Thanks

@ryans6423 7 месяцев назад

Make more content like this plz!

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

Thanks, I appreciate that!

@657spy 7 месяцев назад

No, it's wrong.

@JohnDoe-xm9ql 7 месяцев назад

Great channel and content.. Real and important stuff.

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

Thanks

@christopherbell2091 7 месяцев назад

Not much steel in the pour

@jefferybowman1094 7 месяцев назад

Wall dowels should be in place prior to placement of concrete. Concrete should be vibrated to ensure consolidation of concrete around the dowels.

@Jonathan_Doe_ Месяц назад

That blue grey leather is stunning.

@raymaiden958 6 месяцев назад

Great to see rebar caps on every vertical bar.

@davidelliott5843 7 месяцев назад

Shallow footings need rebar. A deeper trench with thicker concrete does not. In areas not subjected to deep frosts need deeper footings. Clay subsoils are stable until an extended drought dries the clay. Dry clay shrinks and your house will crack up as parts of it sink.

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

All true, you know your stuff

@Highplainsdrifter44 7 месяцев назад

Yeah, I’m not sure where you that idea. But that is incorrect. I would never have a deeper trench without a grade beam or atleast a double mat of rebar. Just asking for trouble.

@davidward5607 7 месяцев назад

@Highplainsdrifter44 Depends what you are building but if it's a house I would say you are wrong. In the UK its called a trench foundation. You dig down to the specified depth, usually at least 1 metre, and then fill the whole trench with concrete. Uses more concrete but much faster than a strip and no messing around tying rebar

@RJ-sr5dv 7 месяцев назад

And once it gets saturated again it will swell and uplift, sometimes more than it was originally. That’s why pier and beam foundations along with post tension slabs are done in areas where clay is prevalent

@davidward5607 7 месяцев назад

@RJ-sr5dv not in London where most of the ground is London clay. So long as you go down 1-1.2 m you are fine.

@MaximusBacon 6 месяцев назад

Good video! Quick, informative, and helping people expand their general knowledge about things. Thanks for uploading.

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

👍

@halellujahmadida6873 29 дней назад

Amazing to see different standards for different regions. In South Africa we put cages for footings and also the ground has to be compacted and sometimes also replacing the soil with different materials in some areas.

@Adick1994 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for this, I’m building a public art park and needed this knowledge for a massive wall where I need to dig below the freeze line 💪

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

👍

@hedzzup420 6 месяцев назад

I love that you used a Sawzall blade as a straight edge in your drawing.

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

👍

@thedumbaviator5536 2 месяца назад

Seeing stoppers is always a relief. My gramps once told me a story of a kid who climbed a wall, fell down and got impaled by rebar. Scary stuff.

@dougpeters1625 7 месяцев назад

Excellent video! Thank you for posting. So many people underestimate that the integrity of a house starts right here.

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

No doubt!

@RichardPerea-yo8rw Месяц назад

Just wanted to say I like how you explain stuff I’m a floor covering contractor since 08 my dad since 1977. I appreciate when people take the time and explain stuff because we have too much work out there. That is crap especially in California.

@mycookie011 6 месяцев назад

Did concrete for about 10years and now I do inside work as maintenance to go easy on my body but I sure as hell miss those days. Every day was exciting and would always get me pumped right before a pour. Now I gotta get pumped when new parts that I need arrive.....yay...😊

@kabarmering520 6 месяцев назад

Im im this business since last 10 years, and yet I learn something new ;)

@tjromero3195 7 месяцев назад

One day I'm shaking my head that you are cooking with tools and the next I'm learning shit I've never thought about. Good stuff!

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

😂

@dospinos1392 6 месяцев назад

I'm happy that I understood all of this because I worked as an engineering field technician for a company doing quality control on various projects for a couple years.

@JustinSeara 28 дней назад

This is actually fascinating.

@That-Google-Guy 5 месяцев назад

This was AWESOME!! I would kill for more cool stuff like this!

@twobrotherskayaking4736 7 месяцев назад

Built many houses. Every footer we installed with planks and rebar we also used a lazar level as this is somewhat critical. Didn't hear this mentioned but good video!

@Bolensgoldrush 7 месяцев назад

GREAT video. It is surprisingly hard to get into the construction lingo when youre coming at it from no experience whatsoever. These videos realy help that. Nice work keep it up.

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@paradisecove4146 6 месяцев назад

THANK YOU FOR THIS. YOU WILL AFFECT MANY PEOPLE IN POSITIVE WAYS WITH SUCH WISDOM. ❤

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

Thanks so much

@Maxson602 7 месяцев назад

A fundamental construction-based to hold the design building above with valid integrity.

@kurbtastic4436 6 месяцев назад

That footing looks so pretty.

@Pipmav 6 месяцев назад

I learn 3 years of educational course in this 30seconds video. Thank you

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@colinbucher2382 6 месяцев назад

I was wondering about that exact question how it works. Thanks man, u made my day better :)

@benmcclure1602 6 месяцев назад

My Grandmother said a giod education is a solid footing for life, my Grandfather said a good skill set was a good footing for life! They were Both right! Miss you both Grandma and Grandpa!

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

👍👍

@denisemurphy3915 6 месяцев назад

Clear explanation, thank you.

@vancemarten7178 6 месяцев назад

Great vid about the footings/foundation.

@myronstambaugh761 6 месяцев назад

I always thought it was the BOTTOM of the footing that must be below frost depth. Great video! Much appreciated!

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

That’s correct, only the bottom of the footing needs to be lower than the frost line. I realize my drawing was confusing and made it look like the top.

@MAJ0ROCEL0T Месяц назад

You are the 2nd channel ive actually subbed to off of shorts. As an aspiring engineer and dreams of building my own home one day. Stuff like this makes the concept of building a home aeem so much tangible and possible. Just learning general concepts over time makes understanding and applying the fine details so much easier. Great channel

@hausplans Месяц назад

I appreciate that 😊

@challis5513 7 месяцев назад

I just absorbed so much new information that my brain liked

@bosshogg3548 4 месяца назад

Never knew if it freezes below it will let the house up learn something new every day ❤

@hausplans 4 месяца назад

👍

@destinywythe9129 6 месяцев назад

Good info a clean and safe worksite is the best way to get the job done .

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@User_92020 6 месяцев назад

I'm not even a construction worker but this was educational and fascinating.

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

Thanks

@agayevayxan 2 месяца назад

What a generous amounts of rebars in that foundation

@RyanandSharonWelch 6 месяцев назад

I like learning about construction it’s one of the few categories. I don’t know a lot about and I have a big interest in homesteading and learning how to build real long lasting structures, but I’m also smart enough to pay somebody when I’m notsure I can do it. I did not even fathom how much goes into just making a foundation. I understood the reinforcement part but I had no idea. They were two separate parts to the cement that become one.

@jersey3686 6 месяцев назад

As someone who wants to build my own home with the hands God gave me, videos like this are teaching me everything I need to know. I want the house out of brick with a concrete foundation. I was originally planning on using Roman designs for roads to build it, with a concrete shell, then placing the bricks on the concrete.

@travisyarbrough4033 7 месяцев назад

when I got to see what goes into the foundation at 10 years old when we doubled the size of our house ..... It is VERY important or the whole thing can be a total loss. Love to see this.

@M4KERB Месяц назад

Love learning about this stuff.

@paulj4155 6 месяцев назад

Nice explanation of footings

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

Thanks

@fluffy1973 5 месяцев назад

I remember drawing these during my CAD days

@2aprogressive626 3 месяца назад

Perfect description!

@hausplans 3 месяца назад

Thanks!

@lucademichele6400 6 месяцев назад

Trabajo perfecto, Dios los bendiga

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

Thanks 😊

@4wheelwarrior Месяц назад

Cool video, thanks! One detail ... the L of the vertical rebar goes UNDER the horizontals in the footing ... the guy in the video was doing it right, but the drawing shows the L above the horizontals.

@wcombs 7 месяцев назад

Learned more in this short video than I could have imagined. Great content. Subbed

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

Awesome, thank you!

@AG-yb1lm 7 месяцев назад

A Very Good Description 👍

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

Thanks 😁

@craigd9616 7 месяцев назад

1000 more videos like this and I will be building my own house. Keep em coming.

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

👍👍

@Justin-w6q1d 6 месяцев назад

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

@dabd8175 6 месяцев назад

I literally told my ex wife this after I slept with a coworker. She wasn't having it 😔

@dennismcconnaughey4155 6 месяцев назад

Ive poured concrete my whole life from footers to walls an everything between an love it

@Electric_City_RC 6 месяцев назад

Awesome video!!! So informative for the time given for the short. Didn't miss a single important piece of information

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

Thanks

@PIVfirestarkproducon 6 месяцев назад

my toxic trait is thinking this single video has equipped me with enough knowledge to build an entire house on a deserted island should i ever end up on a survival show

@WarpedStone Месяц назад

I love this content, sharing your knowledge as an admiable worker

@CarlosGarcia-yk2lk 7 месяцев назад

Very professional and safe

@frolfenuugen4lyfe 7 месяцев назад

It's like a snowshoe for your house. 👍

@hausplans 7 месяцев назад

That’s a good way of putting it

@CashmobDP 6 месяцев назад

I was a cement mason for a couple years. Can’t nothing happen without a solid foundation

@Justin-Outdoors 7 месяцев назад

Very informative and to the point.

@stickmandaninacan 18 дней назад

after seeing houses being built with 3d printed concrete and no rebar or frames held together by only stud sheets and prayers, and multiple other building offenses that appear on shorts. It is very refreshing to see someone actually building a solid house with good fundamental knowledge and not stupid gimmicks that will need to be completely re done after 5 years

@scottwells4007 7 месяцев назад

Great video! Informative which is always helpful!!

@MikeyFPV 6 месяцев назад

Quality educational content right here

@vaai_ltd 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for the excellent, informative content. Nicely done

@hausplans 6 месяцев назад

Thanks

@OhiodadOhiodad 2 месяца назад

Love this an old architectural draftsman...😊

@hausplans 2 месяца назад

👍

@csudd3 Месяц назад

Wonderful explanation

@JosefLarsen 6 месяцев назад

In Sweden, modern building standard is basically excavating the whole area down to below freezing, fill with drainage, then thick styrofoam for insulation and THEN concrete slab on top. Whole house is “anchor”, and drained and very insulated from underneath.