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    House Foundation, Pier and Soil Support Questions

    Thanks for the reply. There are a few things that if I had known what I know now, it would have been done differently. One of those was removing the loose layer at the trench bottoms, as you mentioned, and I was prepared to tell the builder to pull the rebar and post-tension cables out of the...
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    House Foundation, Pier and Soil Support Questions

    Hello, Long post, but I’m cutting out some details to shorten it and I appreciate your patience in reading through it all. My wife and I are having a house built with a post-tension foundation on concrete piers. Most piers are 12” diameter, and 15 feet below original grade. None of them sit on...

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