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It's on the gable end of the house beneath a huge live oak so fairly minimal, I just like to plan for the worst. I like the idea of parging over the two, should help me tie it into the main foundation as well.

Currently prepping drawings for the city so I may not have much to post for a minute but I'll get back soon.

Just wanted to send out an update. Still trying to determine if I need that lip or not. I've dug down around to see how deep the current wall goes, I may be able to pour a footer on that to bridge the two. My main concern is that I won't be able to maintain 8" above the soil line for the bottom of the siding (needed for coding I believe).

I sprayed the outline to walk the layout to see if I wanted to make any changes. This was also intended to help look for any interference:

Then I started doing some excavation to see if I could lower the soil line (help with drainage locally) and to help in moving the air-conditioning compressor. I took a course off of the lower brick so that I got a better slope as well.

I need the step down in order to maintain the ceiling height. Even with a 6" lower slab, I will have a ceiling height of 7' 8". I get clausterphobic with low ceilings (I'm 6'4").

Could have sworn that it was 8 inches but on my most recent review of the IBC it says 6" with soil and 2" with concrete. I will get a detailed photo showing it tonight. Gotta put the 2" drain line in the patio first though.