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    Footings are an important but often overlooked part of building foundations that spread the weight of the building across the ground to provide a stable base. They can take several forms like concrete slabs, strips, or stumps and are commonly 400mm wide to support the weight of ordinary houses on typical soils. Footings provide both a level surface for other foundation elements and distribute the building's load to allow the soil to better carry the weight.

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    Footings are an important but often overlooked part of building foundations that spread the weight of the building across the ground to provide a stable base. They can take several forms like concrete slabs, strips, or stumps and are commonly 400mm wide to support the weight of ordinary houses on typical soils. Footings provide both a level surface for other foundation elements and distribute the building's load to allow the soil to better carry the weight.

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    Footings are an important but often overlooked part of building foundations that spread the weight of the building across the ground to provide a stable base. They can take several forms like concrete slabs, strips, or stumps and are commonly 400mm wide to support the weight of ordinary houses on typical soils. Footings provide both a level surface for other foundation elements and distribute the building's load to allow the soil to better carry the weight.

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    Footings are an important but often overlooked part of building foundations that spread the weight of the building across the ground to provide a stable base. They can take several forms like concrete slabs, strips, or stumps and are commonly 400mm wide to support the weight of ordinary houses on typical soils. Footings provide both a level surface for other foundation elements and distribute the building's load to allow the soil to better carry the weight.

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    FOOTINGS
    Under every building is a foundation. Under most foundations are footings. Footings are normally taken for granted but they are very important. Footings not only provide a level platform for forms or masonry, they also spread the weight of a building so the ground underneath can carry the load better. For typical soils, a common 400 mm wide footing can more than handle the relatively light weight of an ordinary house. A footing can be: a concrete slab a strip of concrete (eg to support the brickwork in a brick veneer house) the stumps of a house.

    (Figure 01 A STRIP FOOTING)

    Anta 2004

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