Repairing the Foundation on a 50 Year Old Home 

When you are drilling holes in concrete or rock for pinning rebar... Drill your hole about 20° off the intended angle of your rebar. Drive the rebar in to bottom it out (the tone will change) then bend your rebar (if possible with a pipe pushed to the mating surface) to the intended angle or position. This increases your pull-out strength immensely. the angle hole in a wall like you are doing also gets MORE rebar into the wall. It makes separation at the joint almost impossible. The poured concrete will bite the texture of the rebar but the drilled hole needs some mechanical help. This angle process is even stronger than gluing the rebar in... which you could still do if you like overkill. I do.

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If I'm not mad mistaken that blackboard under that older model mobile home frame is asbestos board causes cancer you might want to look into it and wear a mask and a suit when handling that blackboard

16:16 no rebar in the pour? WTF?

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Building an additional wall inside the existing wall would likely be just more problems as it's unlikely the existing footing extends that far inside the building.

My thoughts exactly. Best to knock it down and start fresh.

Definitely should be the official motto of the channel lol! Should be on t-shirts by now haha

Doing it "not quite right" generates tons of comments, which loads the algorithm for more views and $$$$$...

oh so they should have dug it all out before they removed the mobile home floor, that makes sense once you stop and think about it.

@@Btstaz it’s the compaction and the weight of the equipment. You need to put more force on the dirt then what happens when it is just sitting there. If this was a new wall built to current code using small equipment, it would be fine at a single story but it isn’t. We always put our decks down before we backfill even shored walls unless we specifically engineer for the surcharge imposed by compaction and the equipment. This problem also comes up when we have soil engineers that insist we hit 95 percent compaction behind retaining walls vs. 90&. We always issue an RFI confirming the wall is engineered for it as we have had many walls knocked over or cracked getting that last 2 or 3 percent and need a CYA so we don’t pay to replace them.

Well, it would definitely help A LOT if the foundation walls were more than 8" thick! I don't think I have ever framed a house on a foundation less than 12" and they are using 14-18" thick, and I don't know what the rebar schedule was spec'ed out for but I doubt it was anywhere near what we would use today, which would have probably helped tremendously!

@@wesman7837 how does my 2 story house manage to not fall down on hollow 2x6 stem walls then?

​@@QwivWhy would you want that anyways? Insulation must be abysmal

one look at this house from the first video and could have guessed lol

No matter how you dress up a flawed idea, it remains fundamentally flawed. Should really tear it down and start over.

Yep. Building on a bad foundation is just a bad idea..

THAT CMU DOESNT QUALIFY AS A GARDEN WALL! Much less a retaining wall and not even close to foundation wall.

Cant say that sand is a good thing either...

@@chuckdavis7681 especially doing it in lifts with a compactor and water going to bow those walls right out. I said the same thing in a little different way earlier.

Andy a a riot!

Exactly my thought. I would not want that sketchy foundation. I hope the put that in the Realtors Disclosure Form!

I love their channel! That would be fun!

Each gutter down pipe can have its own drainage running away from the structure to the edge of the lawn. Bury about 1.5 feet down for zone 7 so it can be serviced.

Came to say the same thing. You don’t want to funnel your roof drains to the basement walls. They are having enough trouble staying dry. They don’t need a firehouse of additional water being directed to them.

@@justwordme I live in an adobe style, with no overhangs, a flat roof, and scuppers to take the water off the roof, and under the scuppers was drainage stone to direct that water away from the foundation to go over the concrete courtyard and into their drains which empty a good 50 feet away from the building. When I had gardeners out, they wanted to just create a HOLE to allow water to soak into the ground like 5 feet away from my foundation. I'm like, "Why aren't we using the existing drains? Undo all that and drain to there and don't let that water rest against the foundation!!" Grr.

​@@justwordmeyup that is true

Fully agree. That foundation was built cheaply 50 years ago to support a very cheap mobile home. No sense trying to make chicken salad out of chicken $h!+. Just do it correctly. It will be better and safer.

Uh this is not Europe. This is land that is actively settling eroding and burning. This is a manufactured home intended for a 30yr lifecycle. This is a turd in the forest.

I was thinking what happened to 12 inch concrete block for the basement walls.

@@RobertMillerJustme - I guess no one thought that was necessary under a mobile home. Or…. no one thought.

You're not the only one to have spotted that one (and I'm sure many more). This project has become, more than anything else, illustrative of what happens whey you charge ahead without proper planning. Not everything can be resolved by watching RU-vid videos and hopefully the only result will be dealing with the false economies and not serious medical emergencies or death.

Seen it in real life, poor sap who entered a ditch to to have a smoke didn't come out alive.

There's ya problem, "universities", people learn from doing real work, not from sitting around in stuffy lecture theaters listening to lecturers droning on.....

@@MegaDirtyberty I suppose you wouldn't want a university trained Dentist or MD? How about a structural engineer for bridges or high rise buildings... 😂

@@danieloliver20 I suppose you only want someone working on your teeth or your venereal disease who has only ever learnt from books and watching youtube? How about if they have a book beside them reading what they should do when they are cutting your cancer out... 😂

ha! I just saw your comment after I wrote mine.. Yep Definitely a Perkins Brothers Builders things when i saw Ambition strikes lay down the brick stuff..

Same!

They're a great crew - and know what they're doing.

I don't think the original solid wall has rebar either. The old house was holding it up but this looks pretty sketch. I love watching these two but now I'm worried.

I’m still finding that tar mixture around our house! 😬

Perkins builder brothers for the win!

Agree 💯 … 1)push the old concrete walls over with excavator and remove them with the thumb. 2) Place 8” (inside) ICF blocks with rebar and outside reinforcements to hold the new concrete pour. 3) Pour and vibrate carefully the new concrete. 4) roll on rubberized ICF coating 5) place Big O sock covered weeping tile topped with pea gravel

Blocks like this built the Philippines

Yeah, some bad decisions being made….

The European working with him on it doesn’t seem to think so 😂

Totally agree 👍

All that aside, the end result is so much better than what you started with. Nice work!

No they are not baby goats, they are humans...

honest question, does permitting get lax when you're out in the wilderness. I can understand needing it for the city but out in the woods when it's just you.. I could see why it might not be required?

@@johnnybgoode8104 It depends on the ‘politics’ of your area, no two areas alike it seems. I’ve lived in farm country back woods with strict zoning regs because they were hell bent on keeping it rural, while the county next door you could live under a couple shingles with a cot and an outhouse and invite your whole clan to build and join in. People always say better to ask forgiveness than permission, but when you are forced to tear down an unpermitted building pretty costly. I had a neighbor dig an unpermitted 4 acre pond on his land- he hit the water table and 6 wells nearby went dry. That was an expensive pond for him, lol. Most people don’t want government in their business on private property and I believe govt is too darn intrusive, but there are also cases where it is necessary to protect everyone’s property.

I can tell you building permits are still required in the location this is taking place, but as somebody who has family in the same area this video is taking place in, a lot of building happens without permits. I can tell you that this location is outside city limits but still falls within the restrictions of the county they live in, but is very, very lax about permit enforcement. ​@@johnnybgoode8104

@@johnnybgoode8104 He mentioned once on a past video that his county didn't require permits on that particular area

The rules depend a lot on where (state, province, county, etc.) you are. As an example, we built a 150 sqft cabin in the woods and we needed a building permit. However if that same cabin would have been built on a property with an existing main house, we would have been allowed to build it without a permit. Just an example of how weird the rules sometimes are.

tf are you smking? xD there is no house, no roof and no rain water. thats not a downspout 🤣

Those are clean outs for the French drain. We will be running a separate gutter drain.

It's likely they had to much water to begin with.

@@johnwinner8511 agree

I worked for a major sewage treatment plant installment, maintenance and drainage company. I would have to second that assessment.

The tree roots popped the wall. Only thing stronger than water is ice... which kind of is water!

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