b'THE PHYSICS OF ACRUSHED STONEFOOTINGSuperior Walls uses a footing of crushed stone along with a steel reinforced footer beam. The purpose of any wall footing is to distribute the walls load over a sufficiently large area of soil so that the soil bearing capacity is not exceeded. Superior Walls utilizes a crushed stone footing to accomplish this. This properly prepared layer of clean crushed stone transfers the load from our wall system to the soil.Crushed stone footers have been in use farA Trainlonger than traditional poured footers.Exerts AboutSince 1981, Superior Walls foundations have been26,000 installed on the same material: crushed stone. lbs sq ft.Famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright used crushedOn the Trackstone footers under his architectural works of art. Railroad beds still use a crushed stone footer. A House Before that the great pyramids of Egypt were builtExerts Abouton crushed stone footers. Crushed stone footers are actually more traditional than poured concrete3,000 footers! lbs sq ft.WHY NOT USE A TRADITIONAL CONCRETE FOOTER? A concrete footer is NOT what keeps your houseto build, causing settling or heaving.The gravel from settling.The purpose of a concrete footerstone footer allows water to drain away fromis to provide a level, solid layer on which to setthe wall.A few more details about the crushed your blocks or forms.Water can seep under thestone footerconcrete footer, allowing hydrostatic pressure DRY STRONG DOUBLE FOOTINGA crushed stone footer allowsCrushed stone transfers the loadThe Superior Walls system actually for extra moisture under theof the house structure betterprovides two footers: One is a foundation to flow freely into thethan concrete to the virgin soil10.25 steel-reinforced concrete drainage system.With a crushedbelow. All houses are ultimatelyfooter that is cast with the wall stone footer, there is no place forsupported by the virgin soil, notitself. (Referred to as a monolithic the water to dam up and find itsthe footer.Wider Bearing footer.) The second footer is the way inside the home.Width = Stronger Foundationcompactedcrushed stone. LEVEL STABLE ECONOMICALIn order to achieve a levelThe crushed stone footer under aThe bottom line is that crushed foundation, a compacted crushedSuperior Walls foundation cannotstone can be used under just stone footer must be used. wash away because the stone isabout any structure.Stone is also The Superior Walls Certifiedkept in place by backfill and theless expensive than traditional Installation Crew, on site just priorconcrete floor slab.The widerconcrete footers and will continue to installing the wall panels, laser- effective bearing width also acts asto be used as a resourceful and levels the stone footer. a stabilizing force for the foundationefficient footer.Level Footer = Level Foundation =and the entire structure. Level Home 9 800-521-3788 | yourbasement.com'