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| Do-It-Yourself Concrete Room Addition
Foundation |
| By Greg Vanden Berge |
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This information can also be very important to do-it-yourselfers that
will be building other projects, for future home improvements. How can a
do-it-yourselfer learn to build a concrete room addition foundation.
Let's get started.
The first thing that you're going to need is a set of plans or building
blueprints and they should have been approved by your local building
department and planning department. There should be specific
architectural details, that you will need to examine carefully, to build
your new concrete room addition foundation correctly.
Let's get started with the digging. You're building plans, should give
you the width and depth and the exact location, of the building footings
that will need to be dug. Grab your shovels and get started. Make sure
that all of the dirt is removed properly, before you start to form the
room addition foundation footings. |
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Next you will need to form the foundation. This can
be done using 2 x 10 or 2 x 12 form boards. You can easily apply these
form boards, in the exact location, that the building plans are
suggesting. You can use 1 x 3 wood or metal stakes that can be purchased
at any home improvement or lumber yard, to hold up your form boards in
the correct position.
The sole purpose of the form boards, will be to hold the concrete in,
once it is poured. Next you will need to install all of the rebar and
building hardware, that will also be required on your building
blueprints. Make sure that you examine these building plans to find the
exact location, for all of your anchor bolts, hold down bolts and all of
your structural rebar.
Once this is done, you're ready to pour your concrete, but don't pour
your concrete, until you have contacted your local building inspector to
examine your new room addition building foundation. |
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