How to create a foundation with your own hands in stages

How to create a foundation with your own hands in stages

This foundation is used under the supporting and main walls of the future building.

First breaks off a pit or trench. The foundation pit is better, because with a strip foundation they usually make a basement. The foundation itself will just serve the walls of the basement. After the pit is ready, it is necessary to compact the soil. Special tamping is well suited for this. At the bottom you need to pour a pillow of sand and also tamp it well. You can pour sand with water, and it itself will be rammed. For landscaping the territory around the foundation, you will need an electritrimmer.

Now we install the formwork, waterproof the foundation using a roofing material in two layers for this. If the plan provides for a reinforcing cage, it should be installed, the reinforcing rods must be tied with a special wire. Install the reinforcing frame on bricks in the formwork. It is necessary to ensure that the rods do not touch the formwork, make the distance between the formwork and the reinforcement a little more than five centimeters.

The queue of pouring concrete mixture came up. It is better to use a mixture prepared in the factory, it has a very good and even consistency. Align the surface of the concrete mixture to facilitate further work.

After complete filling the mixture, it is necessary to release air, it is better to do this with the help of building vibrators or pierce the mixture with a stick with a stick.