Post/Pier Foundation on Sloping Site

[Joe Carrick]

If you were doing this type of building would you:

1. Just use a Pier Foundation with the Main Floor directly above?
2. Use a Pier Foundation and add a Floor area using Invisible Walls with Posts and Beams to support the Main Floor?
3. A combination with Grade Beams?
4. Some other method?

I've tried the first 2 but both seem to have limitations in Chief Architect. I was thinking about the 3rd but it's not a simple thing to accomplish. Maybe I could use Terrain Walls for the Grade Beams.

[kenoeightspot]

Is this example I used a standard foundation then selected the foundation and deleted. Changed the floor structure to include beams. Added posts and polyline solid foundation piers.

[Joe Carrick]

So you created the foundation just so you could frame the first floor?

[Joe Carrick]

Hey Bill,

My sister lives in Lacey. When I was in my 20's I spent some time at my cousin's cabin at Goss Lake on Whidbey Island. That was about 50 years ago so I imagine that some things have changed.

[kenoeightspot]

Joe,

The foundation was created for the framing then deleted it.
Gross lake is a medium pond, it's where the runoff goes. The lake is about five miles from me. I look out to Puget sound and the cruise ships.

[Joe Carrick]

Joe,

The foundation was created for the framing then deleted it.
Gross lake is a medium pond, it's where the runoff goes. The lake is about five miles from me.

That's how I remember it. It was a decent swim to cross it but at least it wasn't just mud.

[kenoeightspot]

Most of the lots on the waterfront have a house on them. I have been on Whidbey island for twenty years.