Hi everyone this is Kamal the Builder again, it's nice and windy here in Sunny California and here we are at a challenging project. I always love challenging projects. Why is that? Well, it helps me utilize my engineering background, it helps me work with other professionals such as Soil Engineers, Structural Engineers, and Civil Engineers to figure things out and to use problem-solving for our customers, and also build something with high quality for our customers at a low price. So in this project, we're "Starting from Scratch". I'm standing in a ditch right now - you can call it a ditch or a trench. This is being built so that we can build a foundation here. This is a specific type of foundation because the location of the lot requires piers and the depth and width of each pier is determined by the soil engineer. The soils engineer comes and does some soil testing, and while we dig the piers they’re here and they verify we’ve dug the right piers to the right dept, based on the soil they see, based on the conditions and what they have established earlier, and what they have specified in their report.
On my right is how we dig the piers: this is an 18-inch auger and with this, we start digging the piers. Once the piers are dug, we cover them for safety reasons, and the depth of each pier is written down on a piece of wood that covers the piers. You’ll see soon, that there are some piers we are digging with greater diameters and greater depths. So we can start looking at this and I will show you the equipment that we use to dig these piers.
So here we have the equipment for digging the piers. Here is the digger we used. For piers that go to greater depths, we bring a bigger digger and that allows us deeper and also bigger diameters. Behind that is the Bobcat with which we level the ground do grading, and get ready for the foundations.
In this section, we have dug the piers, we’ve put the cages in them and we've poured concrete. So the depths I talked about earlier, concrete has been poured into those depths. And these are now ready for the next step: we’d create forms around Concrete for the foundation. Once the concrete is poured for the foundation, we remove the forms, and then you’d be left with the foundation.
I want to show you now what goes inside these holes that we've just dug. These are called “pier cages,” because each one of these is shaped like a little cage, depending on the diameter of the pier. These could be 18 inches in diameter; at this particular job site, we’ve built them to be 36 inches. So you’ll see here, lots of rebars, lots of iron inside of the piers, and the rebar holds the concrete that we pour in the piers. Have a closer look at these and see how much work goes on underground that you don't even get to see, once the project is finished.
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