There will be a sewer pipe passing though my foundation about half
metre down a 1 metre deep mass concrete foundation. Would I just stop
the foundation trench either side of it, poor in leaving the
foundations non-continous, put a concrete lintel over and build up to
ground level ?
Then sort out the packing, pea gravel etc.
Or is there some other method of pouring the foundations around the
pipe ?
Cheers,
Simon.

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:32:33 -0700, sm_jamieson
wrote:

There will be a sewer pipe passing though my foundation about half
metre down a 1 metre deep mass concrete foundation. Would I just stop
the foundation trench either side of it, poor in leaving the
foundations non-continous, put a concrete lintel over and build up to
ground level ?
Then sort out the packing, pea gravel etc.

Shouldn't that be 'pee gravel', in the circumstances? :-)

--
Frank Erskine

On 13 Aug, 16:44, Frank Erskine wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:32:33 -0700, sm_jamieson

wrote:
There will be a sewer pipe passing though my foundation about half
metre down a 1 metre deep mass concrete foundation. Would I just stop
the foundation trench either side of it, poor in leaving the
foundations non-continous, put a concrete lintel over and build up to
ground level ?
Then sort out the packing, pea gravel etc.

Shouldn't that be 'pee gravel', in the circumstances? :-)

--
Frank Erskine

I suppose I needing some ****tering around the pipe before the
concrete pour ;-) Now thats not so nice !
Simon.

sm_jamieson wrote:
There will be a sewer pipe passing though my foundation about half
metre down a 1 metre deep mass concrete foundation. Would I just stop
the foundation trench either side of it, poor in leaving the
foundations non-continous, put a concrete lintel over and build up to
ground level ?

Yes..more or less.

Or you could simply wrap the pipe in polystyrene slabs tie wrapped on
and pour around it..

Then sort out the packing, pea gravel etc.
Or is there some other method of pouring the foundations around the
pipe ?

I am not quite sure WHY but pouring round pipes seems deprecated. I
suspect its an issue of crushing the thing, hence if you put a crushable
layer around it, it should work OK.


Cheers,
Simon.

On 13 Aug, 16:32, sm_jamieson wrote:
There will be a sewer pipe passing though my foundation about half
metre down a 1 metre deep mass concrete foundation. Would I just stop
the foundation trench either side of it, poor in leaving the
foundations non-continous, put a concrete lintel over and build up to
ground level ?
Then sort out the packing, pea gravel etc.
Or is there some other method of pouring the foundations around the
pipe ?
Cheers,
Simon.

One method I've seen used is to wrap a piece of 1 - 2" thick
polystyrene around the pipe before setting the shuttering.