I have a 32X40 ranch house and am adding a 24X32 carport to the side of the house.

One contractor wants to attach house side directly to my house (take off siding and add
wood where needed) and pour footings on the other side..

The other wants to pour footings up against the house (and on the other side) so the house
doesn't have to be disturbed.

Are they both reasonable solutions or is one of them the wrong way to do it?

Both seem reasonable but I'd go with the first guy, he actually knows how to make the physical attachments for the car port. The other guy sounds clueless.

The correct way is to do both. Below grade footers up to the house foundation and steel rebar pinning. And also the attachment of the siding taken off and attachment there. That way its ALL attached. Even if you have a breezeway you still want full block and footers under that so that concrete is not a "free floating floor" and it won't break up.

I'm confused on the " The Other Side" Of footers. Is this addition have an off set? Either or the footer would hit the house corner on the return. Some townships require "lags" into the house tie in Check your local codes. As A builder I would look for a contractor that does both for tie which this is the normal standard of practice in the building industry.

Unless I'm missing something here but an addition is an addition and it all gets tied in.

Again the "other side is what"?

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The other side is 24' away from the house. Thank you for your answer.

So does that mean that the side up against the house is going to be a footer that's parallel to the house to help carry the addition roof load. So in another words there is a 4 sided footer? As if the house wasn't there. If that's the case that is unusual if the roof truss or roof goes from the front wall to the back wall and the one side wall is on the house side. Or is the carport designed as on outside footer end wall furtherest away from the house and the other end wall is against the house and those two footers will carry the roof load?

Any addition In construction if the truss is being supported from the back wall and the front wall the side walls are free of load bearing. So that free of bearing wall if that against the house there only needs to be a footer on three sides The furthest end wall away from the house and the two sides perpendicular to the house. Basically the footer touches the house on a three sided layout for the foundation for the carport. That's the part that was a little confusing here. Whether it's a 4 complete footers in a box shape or three footers in a U shape. The tie in the houses is a given no matter what footers are poured which is standard practice in construction. That part of the question in itself was odd to begin with weather it built as a separate structure in its self and free standing in its self. Again any addition to a structure that has connecting roofs is tied into that structure and so is the footer. That addition only requires a 3 sided footer in the roof load in carried parallel to the house for load bearings

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