What is an All-Weather Wood Foundation?
It’s a basement built of wood, just like the walls of your house – with a difference. The difference is that the wood framing and plywood are pressure treated with a preservative to make them last in contact with the ground, like the wood pilings and supports under high-rise buildings constructed more than 80 years ago. (The preservative treatment is even better now.) Why is an AWWF so good? It’s a better building system because it has features no other foundation system can offer. Here are just a few. • It is designed and engineered especially for your home site, your soil conditions, your house plan. Wood foundations don’t crack because plywood-and-lumber construction acts as a structural diaphragm, a “bridge” across areas of differing soil settlement. Wood has the ability to absorb stresses of all types that cause cracks in more brittle materials. • The All-Weather Wood Foundation provides drier, more comfortable living area below grade. The AWWF starts with an excellent drainage sy
