Categories: Design

How a Foundation Works for a Walk out Basement

I show you how and why a concrete foundation needs to be minimum 48 inches below grade (ground level) to protect from frost. This will help you visualize and understand what’s involved in a walkout basement and why it’s an upgraded design feature in any home. For an apprentice carpenter it’s hard to understand without seeing it in real life so I hope this can help somebody out there.
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I’m Kody Horvey, owner of Up To Kode; a full service carpentry, contracting and consulting company that proudly serves Red Deer and all of Central Alberta.
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Our vision is to continually implement and increase the use of high efficient building practices and products to create sustainable, multi generation structures.
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  • Do you have a video of of the footer and the icf walls for this house?

  • Is this in Canada or something?!?! 4’ frost line wow! Ours in OK is 16”.

  • Just today I listened to some architects discuss the power of drawing and drawings. This video seems the perfect example of when drawing and drawings can be very useful. Looking at this dirt the builder sees all that is to be clearly and other viewers do not.

  • Great video. Now I have a better idea of What I will do .Thanks

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