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The size of the footings will vary according to your local building codes. Typically wider than the walls that they support, the footings will have variations in size according to the number of stories that they support.
Before concrete is poured into the footing, rebar is set to reinforce the foundation. The footings are then filled with poured concrete and allowed to harden for a few days.
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The foundation crew spent a day forming the footings, often just using their hands where it wasn't required for them to be smooth.
They used two batter boards for the garage walls, as the top of the footing would be visible in the finished house. |
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Our foundation contractor said that he's never seen so much concrete in the footings of a house in Trinity County! He thought they must have been having fun when they were red-lining our plans.
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Here you can see that they only installed one batter board around the perimeter of the house for a smooth outside edge of our foundation.
In our second house that we are building on a raised foundation, no batter boards were used at all except for the garage walls. The rest of the footings will all be hidden with backfill. |
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Here you can see where they stubbed in the water line for the hose bib at the back of the house. The rebar that's sticking up from the footings is for the bolts and hold downs that are required in California. |
