patsfan1986
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Hello,
Thank you in advance for your time/assistance. Always found this forum to be a wealth of info.
Per the attached picture, I plan on building something quite similar (15W x 15L x 10H (ft)) . The walls will be full of concrete and rebar. The safe door will weigh over 500lbs. The contents inside the room will be over 5,000lbs.
Should I reinforce my concrete foundation? House was built in the early 1990's and we have an insanely high water table. We live at the bottom of a very large.. very wet hill in a valley that just gets an absurd amount of water.
My thought was to cut out the foundation for just the wall atleast ; pour new concrete that is 2x deeper and use rebar to connect the old foundation to the new slot I just poured.
But then during the winter... will I damage or alter the original foundation if a part of it is heavier/deeper than the rest?
Thoughts?
Thanks, friends.
Thank you in advance for your time/assistance. Always found this forum to be a wealth of info.
Per the attached picture, I plan on building something quite similar (15W x 15L x 10H (ft)) . The walls will be full of concrete and rebar. The safe door will weigh over 500lbs. The contents inside the room will be over 5,000lbs.
Should I reinforce my concrete foundation? House was built in the early 1990's and we have an insanely high water table. We live at the bottom of a very large.. very wet hill in a valley that just gets an absurd amount of water.
My thought was to cut out the foundation for just the wall atleast ; pour new concrete that is 2x deeper and use rebar to connect the old foundation to the new slot I just poured.
But then during the winter... will I damage or alter the original foundation if a part of it is heavier/deeper than the rest?
Thoughts?
Thanks, friends.