Commercial Concrete
Footings and Foundations
Get the footing wrong and every trade above it inherits the problem.
Slab footers, foundation footers, column pads, piers and frost walls, self-performed from excavation and formwork through placement. Commercial and industrial foundations across Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Footers and slab prep on an Ohio church build. Excavation, forming and steel, which is the stage this page is about.
What A Footing
Actually Does
A footing spreads the load of a wall or column across enough soil that the structure stops moving. It is cast in a trench below the finished floor, wider and longer than what it carries, and it works like a foot.
Depth is set by three things: the load above, the bearing capacity of the soil, and frost. In Ohio a commercial footing typically sits between 32 and 42 inches down to clear the frost line, though geotech on the job governs. Trench depths on our work run from six inches on light interior pads to three feet and beyond.
Get it right and the building sits where it was designed to sit. Get it wrong and you are chasing settlement, cracked slabs and door reveals that never close properly, for the life of the structure.
What We Take On
Formwork, rebar, placement and strip, all with our own crews. No brokered labour and no gap between the excavation sub and the concrete sub.
Slab Footers
Thickened edges and integral footings poured with the slab package, so there is no cold joint to argue about.
Foundation Footers
Continuous footings under poured or block foundation walls, formed and placed by our own crews.
Column Pads & Piers
Isolated pads and drilled piers for structural steel, set to the elevations the drawing calls for.
Frost Walls
Frost-depth footings and walls for cold-climate commercial and agricultural buildings.
Post-Frame & Pole Barn
Footings and piers for post-frame construction, including agricultural and equipment buildings across Holmes County and beyond.
Full Foundation Packages
Excavation, formwork, rebar, placement and strip under one scope alongside the slab.
One Sub For The
Footing And The Slab
When the slab cracks, the slab sub blames the footing and the footing sub blames the soil. Nobody is wrong, and nobody fixes it.
Splitting footings and slab across two subcontractors creates an interface, and interfaces are where schedules slip and responsibility gets vague.
We take the footing, the foundation wall and the slab under one scope. Same crew, same schedule, one number to call when something changes, and one company answerable for the result.
It also removes a mobilisation. The excavator that digs the trench is ours, and the crew that strips the forms is the crew that places the floor.
One building, five stages, one contract. Every photograph above is our own crew and our own equipment.
Foundations Across
Northern And Central Ohio
We mobilise from Millersburg, in Holmes County, which puts most of northern and central Ohio inside a comfortable day.
Akron & Canton
Roughly an hour north east. Commercial footings, foundation packages and industrial pads.
Cleveland & Lorain
Distribution, manufacturing and municipal foundation work across the northern corridor.
Columbus & Cincinnati
Central and southern Ohio foundation packages, typically on larger commercial builds.
Also Youngstown, Toledo, Dayton and Zanesville, plus Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Licensing and registration are handled per project and per jurisdiction.
Footing Questions,
Answered Straight
How deep does a commercial footing need to be in Ohio?
Deep enough to clear the frost line and satisfy the bearing capacity in the geotech report. In practice that is commonly 32 to 42 inches in Ohio, but the drawing and the soils report govern, not a rule of thumb.
Can you take the footings and the slab under one contract?
Yes, and we prefer it. Taking the footing, the foundation wall and the slab as one scope removes an interface, a mobilisation and an argument about who caused a crack.
Do you pour footings for post-frame and pole barn buildings?
Yes. Footings and piers for post-frame construction, including agricultural and equipment buildings. It is common work for us in Holmes County and the surrounding counties.
What size foundation package are you set up for?
Commercial and industrial work from around 20,000 square feet of associated slab upward is where our crews and equipment are most efficient. We will look at smaller where the footing package is the bulk of the scope.
How quickly can you mobilise?
Typically two to three weeks for a new start, though backlog moves through the season. Call Daniel at (330) 231-3587 for current availability rather than relying on that number.
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