[TheForge] OT: My floor is poured: the saga

[wmullett at bright.net]

What kind of house do you have sitting on this?  5 story masonry???

8" block is all you need with possibly some pilasters at bearing beams.  What you are proposing is just money down a hole.  

Do a good job with the backfill so you get rid of the water pressure.  

>My idea is to lay 1/2 or 1/3 cap blocks in a doubled manner with 8" 
>space between and fill with concrete or  grout.
>
>At the bottom where pressures are high, ever other block would go 90* to 
>the wall and act as a tie to prevent a blowout.  Rebar atop each 
>course.  Should be plenty strong... 16" thick wall.  Cap them off and in 
>the space between the top of the cap and the bottom of the existing 
>footing, pack in hydraulic cement, which will expand and thereby take up 
>the load.  Hydracide the outer surfaces, put in drains and backfill.
>
>Anyone see any holes in that plan?