Hey,
I am getting ready to build a new home in NE texas and had an geotechnical evaluation done. The result that they recommended a foundation exactly as I had been planning (pier and beam full walkout basement) but specified to design my spread footings for 1500 psf soil bearing and isolated footings at 2000 psf. I read the small print on my plans and they were designed for 2500psf. I cross checked my prints against the CABO residential 2 family dwelling code and they far exceed that.
Cabo says 1 story brick house at 2500 psf only needs 12" footing
My print specifys 20" footing and 10" wall. It looks like the print always has the footing at 2x the wall thickness resulting in overkill for footing width based on soil bearing.
Cabo also says 1 story brick house at 1500 psf (this is what the soil test found) needs 19" footing.
Does this mean that I can leave my building plans unchanged or do I have to find a strucural engineer to figure out what the soil engineer determined? Haven't hire the basement contractor yet, would he know or do they just pour to print?
Already spent $2700 to find out sandy on top, the clay is 16' down and shouldn't cause a problem as long as water is properly drained from finshed grade.
DC
I am getting ready to build a new home in NE texas and had an geotechnical evaluation done. The result that they recommended a foundation exactly as I had been planning (pier and beam full walkout basement) but specified to design my spread footings for 1500 psf soil bearing and isolated footings at 2000 psf. I read the small print on my plans and they were designed for 2500psf. I cross checked my prints against the CABO residential 2 family dwelling code and they far exceed that.
Cabo says 1 story brick house at 2500 psf only needs 12" footing
My print specifys 20" footing and 10" wall. It looks like the print always has the footing at 2x the wall thickness resulting in overkill for footing width based on soil bearing.
Cabo also says 1 story brick house at 1500 psf (this is what the soil test found) needs 19" footing.
Does this mean that I can leave my building plans unchanged or do I have to find a strucural engineer to figure out what the soil engineer determined? Haven't hire the basement contractor yet, would he know or do they just pour to print?
Already spent $2700 to find out sandy on top, the clay is 16' down and shouldn't cause a problem as long as water is properly drained from finshed grade.
DC