bayoudonnie
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I finished a home in August and I'm planning another here shortly. I am the carpenter on the house and feel very comfortable from the sill plates up. My question, I built the home with a crawlspace using a concrete subsurface chain wall foundation. Why was I required to muck out the entire footprint to the depth (24") of the footing and replace that with red clay? We still dug the trenches down to the existing dirt. Seems we could have just dug the trenches, set the rebar and poured letting the dirt be the form. Waste of money or required by code? I relied on my excavation contractor to do the right thing. Was it over kill or is it required and why? Thanks