It s best to pour the concrete footings thick when building mortared stone walls.
Concrete knee wall foundation.
Height vertical thickness of the concrete footing.
Often you will see horizontal steel bars placed in the lower and upper sections of poured foundation walls.
This steel is usually found about one foot up from the bottom of the foundation wall and a foot down from the top.
You can strengthen poured concrete and concrete block walls by including reinforcing steel.
Concrete masonry is well suited for below grade applications because of its strength durability economy and resistance to fire insects and noise.
If you re building a really big wall pour them even thicker taller because the concrete footing will need to support more weight.
Instead of the floor framing bearing on the foundation wall there is a knee wall built usually about 2 or so tall then the floor framing bears on the knee wall.
Concrete masonry is used to construct various foundation wall types including full basement walls crawlspace walls stem walls and piers.
Specifically you can make them at least 12 inches in height.
A hinge is formed at the bottom of the knee wall top of foundation wall.
However some types of walls such as pony walls that rest on a building s foundation or an attic knee wall cannot be properly referred to by both names.