How To Add Crawlspace Foundation For Home Addition To Existing House With Raised Foundation

[kdubs]

we just did this to our home, basically exactly as you described. mixed the concrete by hand with my 90yr old father in law. turned out perfect. (he's a retired mason, so that helped). great vid.

[unamor]

Every time I look for information on construction in general I always end up in one of your videos.

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[steveeyler]

Greg, do you have a video similar to this one that offers insight into an addition to a home that has a basement and whether or not the new room addition should also be a basement or if crawlspace will work? Thanks.

[gordoh]

Thank you Greg keep them coming I'm going to be doing something like this off of my garage. Watching intently.

[Eastbaypisces]

Do a video on how to add bathroom to house with crawlspace. step by step with plumbing and water lines close by

[josecorona]

Muy buenos videos anigo
Podrías subtitular tus videos
Meserian de mucha ayuda gracias

[veronicaplascencia]

Very informative, thank you. I just saw an older video, "How exterior wall stucco can absorb moisture from soil..." & am wondering...I am redoing a planter in front of my house & the soil is against the exterior wall stucco. What should I add to the wall to protect it from water in the soil? A couple of inches of concrete? Or two coats of Liquid Rubber (waterproof foundation sealant)? I would so appreciate your help, thank you!

[richrainer]

Sir, building a 14x20 sunroom addition to the back of my house where my deck was. We’re using cinder block on top of our footer to match our existing house. We also plan to use 2x6 joists for our subfloor. To match the existing floor height it will only require 1 course of cinder block. Do you see any issues with just using I course of block? Are there any special considerations I need to be aware of?

[suadajelic]

Hi Greg I have 50 years old cottage build on flooding 4 inch slab .I would liken to add two story addition to tis existing building .Do you have any video or suggestion what is better to do engineered slab or other suggestion.
Thank you suada

[MerchantNation]

what if the original foundation/crawlspace-wall is brick? would this effect effect the method of connecting the two foundations together.

seems to me that doweling into brick wall would not be as effective to shifting and moving🤔

[nursecuenca]

Great video and great description. I'm somewhat handy do you think anyone could do this following your steps?

[mattgrizz]

I am currently trying to pour a foundation under a add on at the rear of a house I just bought. 2/3 of the house is basement and the other 1/3 is crawspace. The problem is this house is 100 years old and they didn’t use concrete footers. The exterior wall is only brick and the brick has sunk 2 inches down in red clay! The stem walls that are brick as well are falling apart. So I’m trying to figure out how to jack up the brick with no concrete foundation to keep it in place without destroying it and pour a footer under it and then block up to the sill board. By the way the sill board is only a true 2x4 that’s rotten and needing replaced and there’s no fascial board either. I need some serious help and your videos are the only thing on here that comes close to helping! This is only for the crawspace area the basement area is perfect.

[Dominic-nklc]

Hi

Thanks for your video

I have 10inchd concrete blocks I need to put 2x8 on top with anker bolts nut there is one inch gap between blocks and 2x8 to level to the house can I use shems every 3 feet??

[oliverwang]

Thank you for this video. So how can we minimize the risk of new addition foundation settling?

[psmith]

With settling does it cause existing foundation to crack?

[darrengunnell]

I'm doing a bathroom addition on the back of my home just like your video. My new footers will be 12"x18" per code. My plans are approved, but my dilemma is that as I have dug the new footers I'm discovering that my existing footers don't go down that far, maybe 6"-8" deep. What would be some guidance you could provide in tying in the two foundations? Thanks in advance.

[rachaeldauteuil]

Hello - we appreciate all your videos, thank you, thank you for your dedication to the community.
I was hoping you might complete a video, regarding raising a over hang with a room above. We have a colonial Dutch home, that has two bedrooms on each side over the porch.
The problem is that each bedroom has a bump/hump along the wood floor area where the room separates from the house over the porch. We made attempts to raise the over hang, unfortunately this issue remains.

[mikejohnson]

What do you call it when you have the same construction. But pour an insulated slab on the inside. Is it a short cellar or a enclosed crawl space?

[ronmusk]

We're building something similar with a contractor, do you recommend installing a vapor barrier/ gravel in the crawl space?

[HaploBartow]

Where is 6-inch thick foundation accepted? isn't it all 8-inch at minimum?