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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
Not on most homes. The footings are what holds the walls in place. The floor is just a 4in slab poured over the lip of the footings, just to finish it so your not walking on dirt.
Most older homes had dirt floors, and they poured a concrete floor much later...sometimes 300 years later...to finish it off.
When building a new house you pour in the following order...footings, walls, floor.
BTW I doubt his concrete floor is 95 years old. Usualy 1930ish is when you start seeing poured concrete in homes. Until than it was all mason work.
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The weight of the house and the first floor diaphram hold the walls in place.
I live in area where many houses and in some cases entire villages are 100+ years old. I posted my caution about removing the basement floor based on local experience.