A new two-story residential home with a 9-ft deep basement is being planned for some property I own outside of Chicago. Four soil borings were performed at each corner of the existing house which will be torn down. 4,000 PSF bearing soil was found starting at 3.5 ft deep at the front corners...
My small home is being planned for a teardown in the Chicago area in favor of a larger one. The old home has cracks in two places in the foundation easily seen in the deep basement, and a Structural Engineer I hired checked it and said it would be too costly to repair. So, I had soil borings...
