Framed Bearing Wall for a Crawlspace Foundation

Learn how to place a bearing wall in the crawlspace of the foundation and frame it using Chief Architect Software.
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[@bxblack]

oh man 🎉 thank you, been looking for a video like this forever

[@JTDesign1]

Thanks. As usual I got a gold nugget or two by watching how you did certain things. As a long time Chief user, I tend to turn off all the Automatic settings, as they did not do what I wanted or needed, but now you've improved those features as long as we are mindful of all the new settings that can and should be reset.

[@calinger1]

In the deep south where I live, the way you just described to build a foundation would be extremely expensive. We use a 8" thick x 24" wide footings with CMU on top to provide the floor bearing with 2 x 6 P.T. sill to place joists on. We also use pillars instead of full internal bearing walls. Everything bears on top of CMU. I've found that I have a hard time getting accurate foundation wall dimensions so I don't use CA for foundations at all. I use AutoCad for that. With all the code requirements in a hurricane prone zone, making up all those required details in CA is too much since I can do it faster in Autocad.