Walkout Basement Question
Walkout Basement Question
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I have a question about building a house on a slope. The site slopes from north (high) to south (low). The north wall will be fully buried and the east and west walls will be fully buried on the northern side and taper to no bury on the southern side. The south wall will be fully exposed. Can a concrete foundation wall be built for the north, east and west sides and then just a typical wood wall for the south side? Thanks.





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Use the sun wisely. We have somewhat larger overhangs that shade the house in the summer (along with the trees), but let in direct sunlight in the winter, warming an interior brick wall. This keeps us cool in the summer, but warms the house to about 85 in the winter when the sun is out (most of the time in Colorado). When the furnace would go out, the min. temps would go down to about 60-65.
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darthsoilsguy2, why would a cantilever footing be needed for the north wall? The north, east and west walls will be concrete walls with footings.
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If the north wall is long between return walls and supporting a large amount of backfill, the wood floor diaphragm may not be strong enough to support the top of the concrete wall, and you'll be better off designing the wall as a cantilever. As darth suggested, search the site for previous discussions.
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drinking and posting
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One neat addition, if you can is return the full height of wall at the south at the corners, maybe 24" into the low backfill area. That is very helpful in bracing that end wall. Running the down hill wall along at 4 feet above grade also helps brace those end walls. Of course no such wall at doors. You can put your siding over those low height walls by securing wood strips in the concrete as nailers. Taper the sides of these some for anchoring into the concrete. They get nailed inside the forms at what ever spacing you wish for siding studs. You don't need real secure nailing to the forms or you have trouble removing forms.
Again,don't backfill until you have the foundation braced as in the final case, maybe after the roof is on at least. Too many a wall has been shoved in by early back filling.
I have even gone so far as to wet down the walls for a week or more after stripping forms to keep hardening of the concrete going.
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