Strip Foundation Ground Floor

A step by step guide to drawing a construction detail showing a section through a strip foundation and its junction with a ground bearing solid concrete flo.

Strip foundation ground floor. Rain rain go away. The site s good sandy ground also made strip foundations a practical solution. The size and position of the strip is directly related to the overall width of the wall. Strip foundation strip foundations are used where the soil is of good bearing capacity.

Strip foundations or strip footings are a type of shallow foundation that are used to provide a continuous level or sometimes stepped strip of support to a linear structure such as a wall or closely spaced rows of columns built centrally above them. The construction of the ground floor can begin when the foundations have been laid and all the trenches have been back filled with properly compacted material and the loadbearing walls have been built up to the dpc. Good ground conditions are important in strip foundations because the sides of the trench play a big part in supporting the load. A there is no made ground imported soil etc or wide soil strength variation in the loaded area floor area of the construction or load or weak soil patches likely to cause foundation failure.

A ground bearing solid concrete floor is by far the most common form of floor construction for extensions and small domestic works.