Raised Floor Foundation Details

Review the construction process that walks you through the raised floor basics from soils and footings to floor framing.

Raised floor foundation details.

The pictorial to the right illustrates the four main sections getting started foundations floor framing. This publication provides basic design guidance and construction details for raised wood floor foundations. A raised foundation is a foundation that as its name would suggest is the main floor of a home or business that is raised above the plane of the surrounding earth. Still others notably vacation homes as well as small older houses oftentimes rest on a series of concrete piers.

This protects the wood of the floor joists from contact with the soil. A raised floor foundation can be defined as the construction of a house on top of piers or walls that lift the floor of the house off the soil. Design and construct a raised wood floor building professionals can build homes faster and more cost effectively. Along with the concrete slab foundation the raised version accounts for most of the foundation options used for homes in most of the world at least the industrialized world.

See more ideas about foundation pier and beam foundation floor framing. Some are built on a flat concrete slab which provides both a base for the structure and serves as the bottom floor of the house. Most houses have a raised perimeter foundation that supports floors and load bearing walls. The point is that the house is sitting on top of these walls rather than being anchored to the ground as in a conventional foundation.