Hi there again, if you've guessed that the holes are for the house footing then you're absolutely right!! Well, footing is one of the few types of foundation that is used in house construction... others are piling, use of concrete slab, or even a basement flooring as a construction (one of these days I might write about house foundations...i wish)
I remembered in my basic engineering lesson in school days, one of the method necessary to make a stable structure is to remove the land of equivalent mass to the structure (that's why is tall building, the holes are deeper i reckon)
Okay, enough of the nonsense, let's get to some pics
In the pic above, you can see that there are steel (a BS Y12 steel) use in this house construction. The steels are bunched in 6 as they're required to support the 2-storey house. Now on to the foot(ing) pic
The footing are made of concrete. you can still see the wood braces around the structure (they will soon remove it). The wood structure are there as to mold the concrete into its shape. The foot(ing) size is about 3' by 3' and the steels sit atop of the concrete and they're bound by it. (actually i think that this blog is moving pretty fast here...the construction itself only took one day and I'm at work :( during the process. I'm only taking pics b4 n after working hours unfortunately)
Laterz bro....
By way of (It's easier to just typed into the blog than using MS word, innit?) AAMMJ
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