hi welcome to pine Meadows hobby farm I'm your host Jerry Hanson today's video I'm going to
show you how I built my foundation under my house it's actually a cement block skirting
for a manufactured home that's how it's coated with the county first of all and dug out the
trenches took a two by six 20 foot long beams that I use for my raised bed gardens wrap them
in black visqueen so I could preserve them they'll break easy from the break loose easy
from the cement and I can reuse them in the garden and I use those for my forms my leg
rebar in the far in the foundation forms to reinforce it according to code and then
I collected a cement blocks and collected 30 bags of mortar and now it's time to get busy
okay I got my foundation footing built now i'm all set in this is the 1 foot wide 6 inches deep
and then the rebars spaced accordingly code add it back fill in here I'll get some more
backfill down in there ok it's October 2nd I this week on Monday Tuesday Wednesday and
today Thursday I was able to Monday I ran some errands and Tuesday I poured cement mixing that
important met it was a hundred and a hundred and twelve eighty pound bags of quick Creek cement to
make a one foot wide six inch deep and a hundred and fifty foot long footing for my cement block
skirting foundation that I'll be putting on this manufactured home I have my cement block all laid
out this is the amount of blocks that we'll be putting on the footing and going up this
these blocks will be the vent I will mortar in some screen behind them to keep the bugs from
getting through and these short pieces these thin pieces are what's going on top like this
because they'll be facing across the front of this steel plate the tools you'll need will
be a level a trowel a trim tool for the spacing between the cement blocks as you apply the border
and clean them up and make nice Gru's after a while a good pair of knee pads you have spent
a lot of time on your knees and a good pair of gloves to protect your hands from the mortar
you'll need some string a tape measure a marking pen you're going to need a shovel you're going
to need a wheelbarrow for mixing the mortar and you're going to need your stack of mortar
now I've created a space from the top of the footing to the bottom of the house of 26 and a
half inches the reason for 26 and a half inches is just going to accommodate approximately an
inch and a half to two inches of your shims which go against the house your steel plate
which the shims rest on and rest on top of the cement blocks and three layers of cement blocks
that are eight inches wide eight inches high 16 inches wide this 80 pound bag of quikrete mortar
calls for a four and a half quarts of water to be added to it or you can add a little bit more
water to achieve the consistency so this gallon jug clear up to the rim holds four and a quarter
quart so I need four and a half quarts so this gives me a general idea how much I need to add
here I had to put the block on its side in you have inserted my dryer vent and in behind
that around that I sprayed that expanding foam insulation if from a can it's when I'm spraying
under the seal plate here to seal in the gap this is a access hole to reach in and grab get
to my water shut-off which is back there and then that's an access port for the line set
for the heat pump that has to be hooked up yet and then there's the gas line you'll notice I
put a anchoring strap here every four feet and then we poured cement in there we used a short
piece of plastic gutter to shove under there and then put it in an angle and shove slide
the cement it was able to pull right down into the hole so these are all backfield every four
feet it's screwed down and strapped every four feet all the way around the house for you know
the front and back and here is another access port for some special drains I have installed
this is a be fabricating a cover plate over the top of that but this is a left we'll see
that there those are shutoff valve for my water drains for hot and cold water lines in the house
whenever we have one of those polar vortexes the temperature dips way down below zero and
everything gets frigid and locks in you know freezes up tight so I'm able to turn that
water pump off at the well house shut the lines down drain the lines and open this valve these
two valves and drain all the water of the lines until this polar vortex passes and then I can
recharge my Lions and I don't have to worry about it any broken water lines last year it was a had
a broken valve up the well and I had several breaks from the lines down here in the house
so I installed these I'm not taking any chances I'll drain them I'll keep my eye on the weather
forecast and make sure that the polar vortex isn't going to get us you can see everywhere
it's wet in the seams that's where a strap is because that's where we back filled with cement
and cement as is drying out the mortar between those blocks are leaching out the water so it
shows every place we have a backfield here you see the cement block the sill plate the wedges which
support the house and then we have spray foam insulation and a house tie strap every four foot
the foundation in the footing is finished we're sealing up the ends right now my wife painted up
the trim boards that will go on the on that space there I built the access door there's
the access door for underneath the crawlspace it's all in put my drain pipes in so the water
drains away from the house the foundation is finished and we're certain construction on the
deck thank you for joining me on this great adventure of building a foundation I've got
confess this is the first time I've ever built any cement foundation like this I had to go on
YouTube and consult with how to work with sacré concrete the mortar how to lay cement
blocks the correct way all the tools I need YouTube is a wonderful medium to learn what
you don't know so hopefully you learn something and this motivates you or inspires you to go
out and try any adventure if you don't know what you're you know if you don't know how
to do anything try YouTube first I'm your host Jerry Hanson thank you for joining me