On Jun 21, 10:43*am, Steve Barker wrote:
On 6/21/2011 9:27 AM, jamesgangnc wrote:
On Jun 21, 10:21 am, Steve *wrote:
On 6/20/2011 7:50 PM, EXT wrote:
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On 6/20/2011 12:25 PM, willshak wrote:
The house was already constructed, but...
http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2011/06/20/real-estate-disclosure-what...dl3|sec1_lnk2|71747
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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
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well, duh. they put yuppie subdivisions on top of landfills all the time.
Yeah, cheap 12" deep foundations don't provide much support, nor reveal
much underground information. So you could end up overlooking a lot of
potential problems. Up here in the cold north minimum depth is 4 feet,
many foundations go 5 to 7 feet deep to allow for a basement.
I'm a wondering two things:
1. what lo life jurisdiction only requires a 12" footing?
2. What dumass would build a house without a basement? *It's only a
couple thousand more than a crawl or a slab.
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Steve Barker
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Southern half of Florida. *No frost heave. *Lots of areas are not good
places to build basements. *Areas with poor drainage or water close to
the surface. *Like Florida. *You do not find many here in NC either..
Poor drainage and lots of heavy rain. *A few where the land slopes
enough that most of the basement is out of the ground anyway. *Don't
make assupmtions based on your locality.
I'm not making any assumptions at all. *It's just commonsense to build a
basement. *regardless of soil conditions. *It's all workable. AND the
IBC requires footings to be deeper than 12" regardless of location.
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Wrong and wrong.
There are many places in Florida where if you dig 4 feet down your
hole will fill up with water. A basement in those conditions is just
plain stupid. You can't solve that with drainage. It's not
"workable".
And building codes are local, not ibc. Ibc is a model that local
juristictions can start from. They adapt as needed. Since there are
no geological issues or frost in southern florida they don't need a
deep footing. What's under the footing in florida is almost always
sand. You dig deeper you just find more sand. So it's not like you
can dig to a more stable stratum either. And if you dig too deep and
your footing starts filling up with water now you've got a headache on
your hands.