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Do You Required a Footer for a Concrete Slab?

If you live in a home, you may not have footers beneath your concrete. Old construction of houses normally consisted of digging shallow trenches in the dirt and constructing the walls straight in those trenches. As a result, numerous old homes do not have full basements. If yours does, however, you may notice that the basement itself has a ledge of dirt surrounding it. That dirt is literally indicated to hold the walls in place.Today's more recent homes are normally built with footers. Individuals who wish to update their homes by adding a basement or work on other additions will likewise usually utilize footers. However, what are they, and are they absolutely needed? What is a Footer?Footers are normally nothing more than concrete with some type of rebar support. The concrete is put into a pre-dug trench, and the walls of a home are built upon it.When you're going to include a concrete piece on top of your footers, you wish to make certain the slab doesn't move which it ha...