PeyoteReligion
Well-Known Member
Many good points here. I poured foundations in the northwest. Out here the shallowest home foundations were 8 inch (minimum) footings followed by at least 2 feet of foundation wall. That was the shortest, but could hold up two floors. 18 inch minimum sounds fuckinh cake. Run into a hillside and shit gets deep quick. So does the moneyok, so i looked it back up. has to do with the foundation level, frost, cost, and a few other things. has nothing to do with the ground being hard.
in eastern and northern states, the foundations have to be dug deeper anyway, so not as much of a big deal to add the basement. in phoenix, however, only have to lay the foundation to 18 inches because no frost and whatnot. so much more expensive to build a basement.
there are many basements in texas and phoenix, but any scarcity of basements has nothing to do with hardness of ground.
So yeah basements exist all up in Texas, so I'm keeping my new sig addition.