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Timber Products Engineering, Inc., (TPE) provides structural design, quality auditing and inspection services to a myriad of customers throughout the United States and abroad. With a strong background in the overall construction process, TPE's highly qualified staff can be found designing structures, ensuring compliant construction through inspections and promoting inovation within the engineered products industry through quality assurance and testing programs. Regardless of project size, our staff stands ready to assist you on your next project.

"Easy company to work with. Everything was done remotely and I received exactly what was promised."

Garry L on November 2022

Timber Products Engineering, Inc., (TPE) provides structural design, quality auditing and inspection services to a myriad of customers throughout the United States and abroad. With a strong background in the overall construction process, TPE's highly qualified staff can be found designing structures, ensuring compliant construction through inspections and promoting inovation within the engineered products industry through quality assurance and testing programs. Regardless of project size, our staff stands ready to assist you on your next project.

"Easy company to work with. Everything was done remotely and I received exactly what was promised."

Garry L on November 2022


Structural Engineering questions, answered by experts

All foundations have footers, including monolithic slabs. In some cases, the foundation itself acts as the footer, as in the case of a floating slab and a monolithic slab. With a monolithic slab, the footers—which are just the bottom-most portion of the foundation that distributes loads down to stable soil—are a part of the main slab and are constructed with a single pour.

The depth of any foundation style depends on your climate and how deep the frost line is, as building code requires that the footers of a foundation—which are built into a monolithic slab—sit at least a foot below the frost line. At the southern tip of Florida, for example, a monolithic slab foundation would only need to sit 12 inches under the soil at the widest parts. On some parts of the Canadian border, the frost line is 100 inches, which would mean a minimum of 112 inches, which is prohibitively deep for a monolithic slab.

Generally, you can tell if a home is bolted to the foundation by checking the foundation for plates. If you see that your foundational plates connect to wood or bolts protruding from them, this means that you have a bolted foundation. However, it's always wise to bring a home inspector in to confirm if your foundation is secure.

Whether you’re building a new home or building an extension on your existing property, you will likely need both a structural engineer and an architect. A structural engineer will determine what loads your foundation and framing can safely handle, and an architect will draw plans according to those structural calculations to simplify the building process. You can start by contacting a structural engineer near you, as many work alongside architects and can get all of the prep work done at once.

If you’re building new construction or adding onto your existing home, hiring a structural engineer is not only worth it but it’s probably required by your local building department. Structural engineers will ensure you aren’t making your home unsafe in the building process, which is crucial from a safety perspective but also a legal one. It’s also worth hiring a structural engineer if you’re making changes to structural components, like removing a load-bearing wall.

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