Laying Out and Digging Footings for a House | Building The Nantahala Retreat #1

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In South Louisiana, our footings are deeper than they are digging. Their building codes are obviously different than ours, too! You're in Brazil - wow!!

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Bike park!

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Me and my dad used to dig all our own footers. Cool to see another builder doing their own work too

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We used lime spread with a coffee can spread right on the line when digging footings. Then we just held one tooth on the bucket outside of the line. Hold 2 teeth if that makes you happier. lol As for the line, use a stick or better yet a 3/4x3/4 pc. for wrapping the line. top to bottom wrap, not round and round. Our lines lasted for years. We didnt check every stake with a lazer or transit/level. We pulled lines from one to another and drove them to the line. With a nail driven in the top and using a line, one guy can do it himself even without using the lazer. And we used wood stakes in order to do that. Thats how we poured our concrete floors also, no screeds. Wood stakes about 5’ apart, we raked the concrete to the stakes then used a 4’ jitterbug to flatten it out. Then bullfloat it and hand trowel when ready for finishing. Drive the stakes down a bit while finishing. We did machine trowel the larger areas. The percentage we saved on doing our own concrete was larger than the percentage we made by building the house. Same was not true by laying our own block however. OK if your just doing one house at a time, but otherwise, sub it out. Yes, you can use rebar for stakes if you prefer. lol Yes also to the highest elevation on the East coast being near Asheville NC. Even higher than Mount Washington in New Hampshire. But, if youve ever driven to the top of Mount Washington on a clear day, you will never believe thats true.

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Vinyl tapes like that can also stretch over time I've been told. We always use steel 100 footers.

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driving down thru this part of the world, perhaps some of the prettiest area in North Carolina

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