Help On Digging Footings

afg

I don't understand. I saw a guy digging in a formed up area for slab. He was digging trenches across middle, but stopping about 4' before he got to form, and just pilling dirt along trench as he dug. Wouldn't he dig footing along outer edge next to form first, because now he will half to cross the middle trenches he already dug, and how is he gonna pickup the dirt piled up in the middle in between the middle cross trenches.

denick

afg,

Could he have been digging trenches for plumbing or conduit or heat ducts?

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tgeb

Could be a lot of different reasons for how he was doing this.

It is difficult to tell from here.

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joasis

I bet you were seeing the hvac ducts going in...however, I read about another method of placing footings...using a "rat footing" for the perimeter, and the heavy footings supporting the slab. Since to my thinking, compaction makes the slab, footings are still on the outside.

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