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Contractor Blunders

At least he used pressure treated lumber for the framing of this new addition that is in a 42" frost depth area and requires R30 in the floor. Still trying to figure out what he was thinking. No permit, homeowner complaint. Just throw some mortar on the ground, top it off with a solid 4" block (on the surface) and poof you have yourself a footer! High quality contractor's like this have 2 phones to keep up with the demand.

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Homeowner took the contractor to court on this one and I was the star witness because he never submitted plans, started without a permit then failed every inspection we did. She won, but too bad he has no money to pay her.

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Someone decided to change the plans because they screwed up the elevations and thought it was OK to backfill and pour against OSB covered with porous house wrap. They extended the foundation for this front porch without our knowledge too as you can see.

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jar546 said:
Someone decided to change the plans because they screwed up the elevations and thought it was OK to backfill and pour against OSB covered with porous house wrap. They extended the foundation for this front porch without our knowledge too as you can see.View attachment 1892
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Glad they asked me to stop by before they did it again.mjView attachment 810

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