How To Lay Out A Foundation 

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Awesome seeing someone who cherishes their parent bro much respect 🙌

You're the guys and keep doing that great job now um a trade man because of your videos and say thanks to Grandpa too

The best video I’ve watched on squaring a foundation ✊....thank you guys

So awesome. This is exactly how I learned to layout a stemwall but we didn’t haven’t the laser with tone so we used an optical. I remember coming onto a new crew shortly after moving to Cali and they were completely lost on this technique so they were taking 2-3 days just to layout a foundation using torpedoes, batter boards and a string. I took the foreman’s tape, cut it off at 24 inches, used a pair of Zip ties to hold it to a 2ft level and pulled my transit from the trunk of my car and we proceeded to find the low point, marked it all out after measuring the diagonals and runs from the lowest corner, then I had them set the foundation stakes 8 inches outside the corners so we could pull line, spray the dig lines for the 24” bucket. We had the trenches dug and corner pins in before lunch! I got a 2$/hr raise out of that! And I got to sit on my cooler looking through the transit for all of our builds after that! Good on y’all and keep up the good work!

That's awesome. Thanks for sharing❤

These vids are about as real you can get. They don’t skip steps. This is tried and true. Brings back 30 yrs ago when I first saw this process. Keep up the good work guys You need to up that pump hose size huh.

I’m learning layout and studying it and thank you for the awesome help. I took down notes for the future!!!

Wondering if I’m the only one watching this because I’m trying to apply for construction jobs ??

Good video especially like the pump truck blow out at the end

Love your video! Nice respect to Dad!

Loving the videos I do the very same thing in Dublin Ireland and its mutch of the same just more and deeper but thanks for taking the time to share this with us all 🧱👷‍♂️⚒👍

Plot twist when he said “ looks good nothing wrong with that he was actually just trying to keep ur mood up 😂😅 jk amazing to have a dad like urs great work and very helpful video. As a minority apprentice carpenter I want to be the best in my field. Thanks for this very helpful

Awesome to see your dad in a video! Looks like his work has paid off :P

Impressive.. Thanks for the video.

Been in the commercial side of construction for 30 + years. This is a simple way to lay out a foundation that I've used for years. Awesome to still see old school work.

Awesomely explained!!!

😊❤ Very helpful

Great video! Thank you for the solid content.

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In my experience on the commercial side of things a set of Legs for your laser level is worth it and much more stable than having it sit on something, just a thought! Love your videos

cool video. great shots.

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Great video very easy to understand 😃

I really enjoyed this video, thanks

Looking forward to the laser level video

7:15 Break for Crocete! Thanks for the vid! :D

Nice lay out procedure bro.

Thank you bro. Am learning something new

Awesome, really helpful

Did you do another video to show how you establish the initial starting point for the first corner and establish the second point for setting up your 90 degrees?

Love the UC shirt. Go Bearcats!

Jamie is identical to his dad! 👏👏👍👍😃😃

Surprised you use your nail hammer on rebar. Great channel,always lots of good info

Realy awesome...good bro

This is why your math teacher said to pay attention in class.🤓 🚧The Pythagorean theorem is very important in construction boys and girls.🚧🏠

EXCELENTE VIDEO, ME GUSTA

Good job.

Great video! What program do you use for you design layouts?

Best video ever. How many rebars would you need for an area 24" widex 16" thick and 6 foot long? Thank you

You guys are doing awesome. Thanks for sharing the tips! There’s not many of us builders out there anymore.

Thank you

Form-A-Drain is the way to go 👍

Great videos. Question. You mention "when J-bars are tied in from the steel in the footer". Where can I learn about what this means? Do you have a video on installing the rebar for the footer?

Good stuff

You’re awesome so smart

Really had to mention Pythagorean’s theory 😂😂👌👌that was my funniest part Great job.

Very nice

We just drove pieces of rebar into the inside of the trench and shot the top of the rebar with the transit, then we would pull string from one piece to the other and tighten string and drive rebar to string,

Awesome bud . You do great job of making something complicated look simple. Essentially you drove the rebar into proper height to level the footing . Any benefit using that method over Using grade pegs ?

I need to be part of purkin brothers!

Mr. Perkins, between 5:09 and 5:19 you mention two depths. One 8" below and the other 12" below bottom. Are these code depth, or where do those depths come from? Is that bottom, top of middle of footer? I'm a laying my own foundation in FL. Thanks in advance

What program do you like for designing plans on your computer?

Have you ever tried water in a clear vinyl tubing to keep level across big spans?

Do you later hand dig a french drain trench around the footer's perimeter?

This is the vid I need

Nice videos

What computer software do you use to draw plans? Anybody have a good suggestion on building pools or pool enclosures/ framin

Plz do u have any video on setting out of foundation using the batten board?

Wow your dad looks cool

Ha, Jamie is a spitting image of dad.

Well your dad might be old, but im much older at 87. I started in the home building industry in the mid 50s. So with your second set of pins you are actually mimicking what a batter board does. We as a rule didnt use batter boards either for staking out the homes we built. We simply used 2x4 stakes with a nail driven in them for the wall lines. But we used a 10’ off set on the stakes to allow for more distance for the excavating equipment without disturbing the stakes. We would establish an exact corner first by measuring from the property lines. We would then set up a very good surveyor type transit over a nail in the top of that stake by hanging a plumb bob from the transit. We would then turn 90s with the transit, which would give us all but one corner location, again setting the stakes 10’ out from the actual corner. The final corner would be found by pulling a tape from the others. If there were offsets in the house requiring more than one stake, then we would use a standard batter board setup for that which allows for more nails for the different wall lines. With a good helper i could stake out several large houses in a day. Without permanent stakes set back from the wall lines by enough distance, you will lose them during the excavation process, requiring more stake out time to reestablish the wall lines for the foundation after the footings are poured.

Nice video

Exactly what I was looking for at 2:40. I reckoned 2 tapes was the way to go, but I was thinking about the right angle, not the hypotenuse. Seems so obvious now!

Awesome

I really love this channel it's not like your average construction channel. You go into real depth of codes and certain tips and tricks to making your job done much easier!!

Which program do you use to design that house?? Looking for a good design program that also does take offs

At 3:30 regarding your reference stakes, isn't that really what the precisely-located nails on the batter boards do? I do like my stakes a bit further back and well out of the way of the machinery.

Waww..nicee..

I've dug plenty of footings for foundations but we've always used batter boards and a transit, but how was it done without a transit

What the tool called that you used to poke the soil. I'm assuming to test soil compression?

What program did you use to design the house ?

I want to build my own home. No construction experience, I went to college to be a teacher. I was interested in learning to prep the foundation for a rancher or cape cod home. Are there home construction trade schools for older adults?

May i know, what is the receiver you clip on that water balance? Any reference link so that i can have the review?

sir correct me if im wrong. so your laser was set at 12" above grade,at your lowest point you got 16" so your lowest point was 4"below the top of the footing, the 12" inches that your laser is set at plus the 4" from you low point is 16" to reach the 12" footing below grade you would need to add 8" more for a total of 24". wich is what you adjusted your marker to plus 8" Right?

How did you determine the rebar locations so they fall between the web of the block?

Yes . What was that thingy you used to poke holes or marks in the dirt and why you were doing that. Thanks

Which CAD are you using for the designs?

Thank you. What is the yellow tee thing you were stabbing into the ground at the 7:15 mark my friend?

Which app did you use to design the plan?

When you pull the tape measure off the string line to make the footer 2’ wide. How do you know you’re pulling off square. Or does it not really matter?

what software did you use to design the layout of the house? cad?

İ need to lift one corner of the house then put some support underneath the footing. My question is, after lifting up the house, how am l supposed to fill the gap between footing and soil? Or it should be ok just the way it is? Can you guys gimme some ideas please thank you.

Honestly.... Best video so far. Out of all the videos I have watched the past week this one goes in very good detail. This video made it easy to understand, not only the importance of each step, but also had great detail of what each step entails. GREAT VIDEO.

It seems weird. Here in Illinois we did the grade to the bottom of the footing the whole thing. Then stone with 3/4 stone and drain tile usually the outside. Now we do radon vents inside the pad it makes it easier if there are columns in the middle

Could you explain more in depth how to set up a starting point of a footing/corner

Hey mate love your videos. Quick question. Why not just measure 3 feet further for the reference pins the first time. Instead of resetting 3 feet off? You could still draw 3 feet outside on your plans and use Pythagorean’s T to do the same?

On which software you design this plan.

What app are you using for that calculator you were using on your phone in thr video

Footing not footer , just saying, and old school that’s for sure every time, great jobs mate .

Often wondered. If someone wanted a block foundation that is exactly 25’x60’ (outside corners) would that interfere with the block size? So that you understand what I’m asking, 25’ = 300” / 300” divided by 16” = 19.75 not quite a full block. Or is this a non-issue for a good block layer? Please help so I can sleep at night. Thanks, love the videos!

Oh OK wow Rand Perkins in the flash ha ha I haven’t seen him in Good night over 10 years

How does 8 inches from the ouside and 16 from the inside center the wall over the 2 foot footing? 2x6 thickness + 1/2 drywall + 1/2 sheathing is only 6.5 inches. Shouldn't it be 8 or am I missing something?

Always use steel tape to layout a foundation.

We're you in Canada today? I saw a truck with brothers on it bit couldnt read the rest

No temporary forms for those dirt walls. Depth?

thanks for the video! just a question! you mentioned after finding the ground's lowest point you needed to dig 8 inches below that level to get to the top of the footer , then you fixed your reciever on (lowest point + 8") . so my question is why the footer depth itself was not also part of the calculation for digging? thanks