Sea Level Foundation | This Old House

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1. ▶0:04

   Here in Bayhead, our house has finally been elevated, and it is the talk of the neighborhood.

   在贝黑德，我们的房子终于抬高了，这成了邻里间热议的话题。

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   People are just not used to seeing one house way up in the air next to houses that are at their original elevation.

   人们还不习惯看到一栋房子高高地悬在空中，而旁边却是保持原始高度的房子。

3. ▶0:25

   We went from a B zone to an A zone with the revised maps that they offered to us, and allowed us to go to a standard footing and foundation type instead of a deep foundation required here.

   根据他们提供的新版地图，我们将区域从B区调整到了A区，这使我们能够采用标准的基脚和地基类型，而不需要这里原本要求的深地基。

4. ▶0:37

   We did have to have soil borings done to make sure that we were able to support the spread footing, and they came back positive with the coarse sand, and we're able to go ahead and do what we need to do to have a spread footing or concrete footing.

   我们确实需要进行土壤钻探，以确保我们能够支撑扩展基脚，结果显示是粗砂，这很好，我们可以继续进行扩展基脚或混凝土基脚的施工。

5. ▶0:50

   And the only thing that we have to deal with now is the tidal waters coming in and filling in the the holes that are being dug.

   现在我们唯一要处理的问题是潮汐水涌入并填满了正在挖掘的坑洞。

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