Forming Foundations in the Rock

When building a home, it can be difficult, time-consuming, and costly to build on a rocky site.
On this site we hit rock and had to figure out a better way to have the foundation poured rather than the typical way forming is usually conducted.

This new system we developed helped us save time and money. Check it out below!

[keekeemyfirstcat]

I have a piece of property with crumble rock the kind that you can build roads with. I wonder how you put a foundation on this?

[eliinthewolverinestate]

I use stone footers if the bedrock is harder than concrete. Code even says 24" in sand or loose soils for foundation. I found out why when I hit limestone bedrock U.p. north under 30" of sand of why code say that. Usually on glacial till it's 4 feet to frost line here and I go 6 feet on north walls where the sun don't shine. Your concrete guy is awesome. I used fgpr to pin stone footer to bedrock. Middle of rust belt and rebar fails even 6 inches from outside of concrete. Building a Richardsonian Romanesque masonry Earthship with 6/12 mono sloped roof. No berm no tires. No berm helps with ventilation. Why would I use tires when I do masonry work for a living? 8 inch concrete block filled with insulation, with rockwool, hardy board insulation, X2 one way vapor barriers sandwhich, and 8' rip rap limestone veneer. Building it off grid for retirement.