JBarbis

The mason. All freshly dog out. Inspector didn't say anything about that.

Of course not. This should be no surprise to anyone. Of course not. This shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone. At the time the house was built, spread footings were not standard. I grew up in New England. Spread footings were the exception in the 1800s and early 1900s. Any experienced local designer or builder should have known this. The walls would have been fine to go on carrying their existing load, but you can't impose new loads on them. Did you think you could remove the wood framing and build a new house on top of an obsolete foundation like that? Really? At this point, just scrape the site clean and start over. It'll be quicker and cheaper that anything else. What you've got left in the pictures isn't worth preserving from a historical perspective and from a financial perspective, it'll be better to just demo it.I would tend to agree with you. However the existing house is grandfathered. So if i tore it completely down i would be forced to suck the house back into the new limits. Basically loose 80% of the storage room (144sqft) and loose 3'+ on the side of the house. (top and bottom floors, plus attic space. roughly 150-160sqft). Not exactly something i want to do. Id rather add steel beams or add footings. Ill post more pictures shortly. I'm constantly taking pictures for documentation and later reference

Negative. Bringing the house as far back as im allowed with the setback. If i was able to go farther back i would. Im actually waiting to speak with the GC, Architect and inspector on this. This is most likley what will happen or another steel beam will be added. $5200 for the 40' of the current steel beam supplied and installed. Might have to bite another one of those bullets.

Marc, Plans were approved by the town. House was being rebuilt to code. Im waiting to here back from the GC and Inspector on this. Then i have to contact the architect. I like to get a few people thoughts before jumping into anything. I'm leaning towards just adding an additional steel beam to support the new loads at the front of the house if i have issue of the existing front wall not having a footing. What thru me for a curve ball was the inspector paper saying rear foundation wall has no footings. "Not approved" However about 95% of the rear wall is no longer load bearing because of the steel. I was actually told i could rip down basically that whole wall. Plans http://s211.beta.photobucket.com/user/e ... ed%20Plans

hi am new any wanted to see some thoughts. In the process of a major remodeling/addition to existing house. House was built in 1899 and the garage addition was built in 1960. Garage addition was built built basically to code (footings, 16" OC etc). Old portion of house apparently had no code. Exiting masonary walls are 6" wide and all framing was 24" OC. We ripped down the top framing as it was just pointless to keep. Mason laid the forms and had the inspector come out before pouring the footing. Major problem. Existing foundation has no footing apparently. Nice big dent. i know have a revise/amend i need to have the architect do. Any thoughts on how screwed i am? http://s211.beta.photobucket.com/user/e ... mail_share