The Secret to Building a Strong Footing and Foundation!
Channel: Essential Mountain Homesteading
Date: 2024-01-28

The Secret to Building a Strong Footing and Foundation!
This video follows the start-to-finish construction of a large, but very strong footing and foundation of this vacation home for one of our clients. We are calling it The Modern Mountain Getaway, and it features vaulted ceilings, a huge wall of windows, and lots of outdoor space for the owner's zen garden!  In this video, we will highlight the Secret to Building a Strong Footing and Foundation, the best building techniques, building codes, order of operations, cost, building materials, and tools used, and also even talk about the problems we run into during the build! 
This video is a very condensed compilation of a video series that we previously released comprised of 26 longer videos adding up to about six hours of total content. This is a great way to catch all of the highlights in about a quarter of the time!￼


00:00 Intro
00:33 Footings
01:23 Walls
02:24 Pouring concrete
06:05 Hold down bolts
08:21 Concrete form takedown
09:48 Backfill and waterproofing