Posted by: Jeff on July 07, 2000 at 22:41:00:

In Reply to: Cutting a footing Posted by: tim on July 06, 2000 at 19:34:22:

: My house is on a slab, and I have just added a room being the existing house. Now I need to hook up the new bathroom to the existing sewer.
: Can I just hack out a chunk of the existing footing to run my pipe through? The location I want to cut is in the middle what is now a hallway (used to be the back door), so no weight is resting on that spot.
: Thanks.

Tim
I see no problem in cutting a chase in the floor but I do not like the idea of cutting what would be a portion of the perimeter footing. This is normally thicker and has re-bar in it and when you cut this you weaken the entire run. If possible cut on each side and dig under to place the pipe and you should have no problem now or later.
Jeff

Followups::

: : My house is on a slab, and I have just added a room being the existing house. Now I need to hook up the new bathroom to the existing sewer. : : Can I just hack out a chunk of the existing footing to run my pipe through? The location I want to cut is in the middle what is now a hallway (used to be the back door), so no weight is resting on that spot. : : Thanks. : Tim : I see no problem in cutting a chase in the floor but I do not like the idea of cutting what would be a portion of the perimeter footing. This is normally thicker and has re-bar in it and when you cut this you weaken the entire run. If possible cut on each side and dig under to place the pipe and you should have no problem now or later. : Jeff

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