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Building a Basement
From: onedepot@yahoo.com
Category: Foundations and Basements
Remote Name: 64.210.248.135
Date: 19 Feb 2002
Time: 04:14 PM
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I am planning on getting a house built in Shawnee, OK. I am from Kansas and I
would love to have a basement constructed. There are very few basements in
Shawnee, (30 miles East of Oklahoma City) and most builders don't want anything
to do with constructing one. The main reason is that they are unfamiliar with
them and also, some of them said that the clay they have, shrinks and swells to
much, causing to much force on the basement walls and causing them to crack and
leak. Commercial buildings there have basements, but maybe 1 out of 300 homes
have them. There really is no black top soil there, just a red clay for their
soil. It is a wonder that grass even grows their at all. Also, another thing
that might help you, when they do slab foundations, they drill piers when doing
the footings. Their normal footing depth is 18" and then gown down a few
feet with piers. Is their reasoning for no basements valid? If so, any other
construction methods available?
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