About ten years ago, a contractor hired the framing crew i was on, and we stick framed on top of a superior foundation. On one corner of the house, (the lake side) the foundation jetted up 2 plus inches in a span of 25ft. We figured this out because we framed the wall on the deck squared and sheated. Raised the wall, and we had inches of daylight under the bottom plate. Blew our minds. Ran out to the driveway side and sighted down the foundation.. the thing took off to the sky at the end. We did a great job hiding the roofline but those people had a fd up floor.
Had the same question. That's from their website: "Superior Walls uses a footing of crushed stone, along with a steel reinforced footer beam. The purpose of any wall footing is to distribute the wall’s load over a sufficiently large area of soil so that the soil bearing capacity is not exceeded. Superior Walls utilizes a crushed stone footing to accomplish this. This properly prepared layer of clean crushed stone transfers the load from our wall system to the soil. See the SWA Builder Guideline Booklet (MAN 42-9000) for more information. A copy of the BGB may be obtained from this website."
@PatrickLetendrePerreault Still don't understand why at the most minimum there wouldn't ba a mud mat footing or at the very least a crusher dust mat that's been tamped.
About ten years ago, a contractor hired the framing crew i was on, and we stick framed on top of a superior foundation. On one corner of the house, (the lake side) the foundation jetted up 2 plus inches in a span of 25ft. We figured this out because we framed the wall on the deck squared and sheated. Raised the wall, and we had inches of daylight under the bottom plate. Blew our minds. Ran out to the driveway side and sighted down the foundation.. the thing took off to the sky at the end. We did a great job hiding the roofline but those people had a fd up floor.
That’s awful! I’m glad our framer went out multiple times to check and double check everything before we even started the frame.
Why is there no footings?
Had the same question. That's from their website: "Superior Walls uses a footing of crushed stone, along with a steel reinforced footer beam. The purpose of any wall footing is to distribute the wall’s load over a sufficiently large area of soil so that the soil bearing capacity is not exceeded. Superior Walls utilizes a crushed stone footing to accomplish this. This properly prepared layer of clean crushed stone transfers the load from our wall system to the soil. See the SWA Builder Guideline Booklet (MAN 42-9000) for more information. A copy of the BGB may be obtained from this website."
@@PatrickLetendrePerreault There is no steel in the footer i worked for them for a week. Just pea gravel stone thats it sometimes only 6" thick !!!!!
@PatrickLetendrePerreault Still don't understand why at the most minimum there wouldn't ba a mud mat footing or at the very least a crusher dust mat that's been tamped.