Hi All,
We have a cottage. We have spent many years digging and installing concrete piers to the bed rock, and replacing all structural beams. The place is level and the exterior just got finished last year.
This year is sprayfoam the floors, but before that we want to make a small room in the basement and relocate all the water services. The main portion of the cottage is full excavated but the 6' banks are slowing settling in and we need a retaining wall.
So what started as a simple room has morphed into a CMU basement. You know, typical cottage project. The plan is to form footings for a level surface and pin to the bedrock, and then build CMU walls between the exterior piers.
The only thing I'm having trouble with is that the piers are generally about 5' of 10" sonotube concrete on a 24" redibase with a 2' 6x6 on top. The concrete height was originally determined by the smallest jack posts we had, but the block wall will need to extend above that line. I'm having a hard time visualizing how to incorporate the bond beam at the top of the block wall the 6x6 post inside it, or if it is even worth the agro.
I figure I will probably need to just remove the wood entirely after most of the wall is built, but there are 4 piers in the current phase with an additional 5 as the retaining wall continues.
The intention is that the rest of the space is converted later so all work is being treated as a fully finished foundation wall.
This is a pretty typical example. This one will be in the middle of two 8foot wall segments, with the third wall making up the corner to the right of this.
I have lots of pictures and I'm making up the permit drawings, just trying to plan everything out since this will be a DIY summer vacation project.
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I am fully comfortable jacking and moving this place around, fully equipped with bottle jacks, jack posts, lasers. I just really do not want to remove all our hard work and re-level if I don't have to.
Thanks,
~Dave
We have a cottage. We have spent many years digging and installing concrete piers to the bed rock, and replacing all structural beams. The place is level and the exterior just got finished last year.
This year is sprayfoam the floors, but before that we want to make a small room in the basement and relocate all the water services. The main portion of the cottage is full excavated but the 6' banks are slowing settling in and we need a retaining wall.
So what started as a simple room has morphed into a CMU basement. You know, typical cottage project. The plan is to form footings for a level surface and pin to the bedrock, and then build CMU walls between the exterior piers.
The only thing I'm having trouble with is that the piers are generally about 5' of 10" sonotube concrete on a 24" redibase with a 2' 6x6 on top. The concrete height was originally determined by the smallest jack posts we had, but the block wall will need to extend above that line. I'm having a hard time visualizing how to incorporate the bond beam at the top of the block wall the 6x6 post inside it, or if it is even worth the agro.
I figure I will probably need to just remove the wood entirely after most of the wall is built, but there are 4 piers in the current phase with an additional 5 as the retaining wall continues.
The intention is that the rest of the space is converted later so all work is being treated as a fully finished foundation wall.
This is a pretty typical example. This one will be in the middle of two 8foot wall segments, with the third wall making up the corner to the right of this.
I have lots of pictures and I'm making up the permit drawings, just trying to plan everything out since this will be a DIY summer vacation project.
I am fully comfortable jacking and moving this place around, fully equipped with bottle jacks, jack posts, lasers. I just really do not want to remove all our hard work and re-level if I don't have to.
Thanks,
~Dave
