Digging Out For A Basement : Large 2 Story Addition

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[@EastRiverHomestead]

Loved this video. Very informative. My house is built on gumbo. What would the specs be for the footers for the posts to jack up the house?

[@RCHBuilders]

Glad you enjoyed the video. Gumbo and Red Clay are both pretty similar except that Gumbo tends to dry out a little finer. For this I would probably dig a footer about 24"x24" and 18" deep. It would take approximately 9=80lb bags of concrete or 12=60lb bags. Depending on how hard the ground ends up being as you dig down, 12" deep maybe fine.