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Week 1: How to form and pour foundation footings

form and pour footings

We  broke ground for our new house, and now week 1 we form and pour the foundation footings. The first step is excavation, then building the footings forms, and pouring the concrete in the forms. Here is a weekly progress of our house building process. 

form and pour footings

Excavation

This past week was all about getting ready to pour the foundation footings. By last week Thursday the hole was dug. We hired a local company to dig the hole for the foundation, and we will also get them do to the septic and civil work.(If you are new here, my name is Jessica! My husband and I built our own home, acting as our own general contractors. We live in rural Ontario, about an hour south of Ottawa)

Excavating for a raised bungalow

We are building a raised bungalow and we plan on using the basement as living space. Tony and I wanted the basement to be high with big windows, so the hole only needed to be 4 feet deep.

Excavating for an owner builder raised bungalow. How to form and pour footings

Building Footing Forms

Then all week this week Tony and our contractor, along with Tony’s father, worked on building the forms for the footings. We hired Dovetail Carpentry to do a lot of the work for us. He is a good friend of ours and he is very good at what he does. These are the finished forms.

Forming the foundation footings

Then we got some gravel around the edges of the forms so the concrete wouldn’t spill out the bottom of the forms.

Forming the foundation footings

Pour foundation footings

The next step was to pour the foundation footings. There were seven of us working there, and it still took most of the day. Tony and I are newbies when it comes to general contracting, so we’re still working on our estimating skills. At first we underestimated the amount of rebar we needed for in the concrete, then we overestimated the amount of concrete. Now we have some very expensive fill under our garage.

Pouring concrete for foundation footings

And this is how it looks at the end of this week. Next week we will start the foundation, as long as the weather cooperates!

Concrete foundation footings


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  1. How To Build A House | The Vanderveen House says:
    December 31, 2016 at 10:38 am

    […] the build on April 20, 2016. Over the next three weeks we worked on the foundation, including the footings and the insulated concrete forms. Our main contractors (Dovetail Carpentry) did most of the work […]

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  2. Week 2: Insulated Concrete Forms Foundation – The Vanderveen House says:
    January 13, 2017 at 2:22 am

    […] the foundation footing concrete was poured last week, it was left to dry for a day or two before removing the forms. This […]

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  3. How To Build A House • The Vanderveen House says:
    March 22, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    […] the build on April 20, 2016. Over the next three weeks we worked on the foundation, including the footings and the insulated concrete forms. Our main contractors (Dovetail Carpentry) did most of the work […]

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  4. Landscaping Around Our New House - What we've done so far • The Vanderveen House says:
    June 21, 2017 at 7:01 pm

    […] over a year ago we started building our raised bungalow on 30 acres of land in the country. Last fall and into the winter we finished […]

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