inner city new home foundations much the same as your Junction Houses

This blog is always on the look out for house design and reno aspects that are inspirational or design pleasing to those of you in the Junction that are into home reno and design. yet catching a medium buildup of townhouses, going up from the the basement to completion has been difficult, the blog has tried it before.

…yet there may have been one found that is close enough  a couple of times a week, that this can be done.

today photos of the site provide a view of the site of a number of townhouse lots with the footing and plumbing elements installed.

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Above are the footings of three houses, with laid sewage pipes, what is most interesting is this part of the build has much  in  common with how many of the Junction houses were built. The footings were set, which in many Junctions homes were large rocks on untouched soil at the bottom of the dig. followed by laying down the sewage pipes. Today current construction methods use poured concrete for the foundations.

The next step is the to pour the footing which will occur Monday.

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Yet the major difference is the back-flow sewage stoppage devise, which is now a code requirement. In the image above it is the black plastic box leading into the dirt. As the concrete is poured this box will be leveled.

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