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I swore I'd never build a house with a slab foundation, then I poured one in Boise last month
Three years ago I watched a guy in Nampa fight a cracked slab for a whole summer, and I walked away saying I'd only ever frame on a crawl space. Last month I poured a post tension slab for a 2,400 sq ft build off Chinden Blvd and the whole thing went down in two days with zero drama. The kicker was the quote from my concrete sub: a crawl space was going to run me about $14,000 more after I added up the extra excavation, stem walls, and floor framing. Going slab also cut almost three weeks off the schedule, which mattered because the owners had a lease running out. I still think slabs are a bad call on certain soils, so I'm not fully converted. Anybody here switched one way or the other after seeing real numbers on their own job?
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robert_butler1115d ago
Did the same thing on a duplex in Meridian two years back after swearing off slabs, and the savings came out almost the same as yours once I added up stem walls and floor joists. The post tension part is what sold me, since the engineer spec'd it for our clay and we have not seen a hairline crack yet. Get a soil report first though, because I would not pour one on the wrong dirt no matter how cheap it looks.
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