Strip Foundation Ground Floor

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Strip foundation ground floor.

A step by step guide to drawing a construction detail showing a section through a strip foundation and its junction with a ground bearing solid concrete flo. The site s good sandy ground also made strip foundations a practical solution. A there is no made ground imported soil etc or wide soil strength variation in the loaded area floor area of the construction or load or weak soil patches likely to cause foundation failure. Strip foundation strip foundations are used where the soil is of good bearing capacity.

A ground bearing solid concrete floor is by far the most common form of floor construction for extensions and small domestic works. This is conditional upon the walls the foundations support which are placed centrally on their respective strip of concrete. Concrete is then poured in until it reaches just below ground level. The key sizes of a strip foundation for concrete cavity wall construction and timber frame cavity wall construction are similar.

Strip foundations or strip footings are a type of shallow foundation that are used to provide a continuous level or sometimes stepped strip of support to a linear structure such as a wall or closely spaced rows of columns built centrally above them.