Everybody wants a walkout these days... whether it's for potential future rentals or just an excuse to rake more leaves...
Walkouts can be challenging, especially in an area like Etobicoke that has variably high water table levels depending where you are digging. Due to the fact that the walkout has to be dug four feet below the basement floor level, it can be quite deep, which poses not only water risks but also risks of collapse during excavation. This is why I always fill the excavated part of the walkout with concrete. It provides the most stable surface to build the walkout and exterior adjoining wall on, and also speeds the process of forming the walls (otherwise they have to form a wall, pour it, wait, come back, strip footings, waterproof then do it all again.
Here was the first of 3 9-meter full concrete trucks to deposit their load in the giant walkout at 150 Van Dusen...
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