I have been working on building a 20x30 house on a frost-protected slab. The plan for the slab was to be a thickened edge, monolithic, Alaskan slab, 2 feet tall with 16" wide footings and two 1/2-inch rebar top and bottom and a 1 foot wide by 8 inch deep grade beam down the middle of the 30...
I am owner-building a 30x20 story and a half home in NE Vermont on a frost protected monolithic (thickened edge slab. The site has approx. 5-6% slope, silty soils and is at the bottom of a watershed of approx. 250 acres that goes a mile back.
Excavation was done to get the topsoil off at the...