I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
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We are planning to build a house, the land really doesn't have enough slop for a good basement, so we were going to just build a 2 story house. We got everything ready and started digging last weekend and found out that at 10ft the soil was still black and soft. Is there anything we can do to build this house. what is the best way to support this house, can we build a basement and what is the best way, or do we need to just sale the soil and build a pool > LOL!!!! PLEASE HELP< I have no Idea were to go from here. Thank You





RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
But if I were in your shoes, I would first talk to my builder and get his input. Maybe he/she has seen this type of soil profile in your area before.
DaveAtkins
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
If you aren't really looking to stay conventional, a treated post foundation in drilled holes may be an option.
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
Pier and grade beam is not a likely solution to soft soils at the level you describe.
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
We are building this house ourselfs, with the help of a friend that has built houses.
The land is strange, WE are in the Boonies near the water, the land had not been touched in any way for decades I am sure, we remove the trees that were in our way. We went 10ft cause we thought that forsure we would hit something solid and be able to build a basement house. But that wasn't the case. The land development isn't costing us cause our family has the equipment to do it so that is how we could play around and it not cost us a lot, but now we are stuck, not sure what to do with this soft soil. That is why I came on here the nearest Geotech in almost 3hrs from me. I checked on that today. The funny thing is right on the boundries of our land we dug a hole for bury some left over stumps and the soil was red clay and rock. It seems like there is just pockets of this soft soil, and in the areas that we have to build our house, because the lot is narrow.
I hope this info helps with some of the questions you have. Oh there are other houses across the road on a steapier slope.
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
The cost should be somewhere around $100/hr., including the travel time. If you don't need/want a formal report, then all you will be out is the time of the engineer to travel to/from the site and the time spent. When compared to the cost of a house, that is money well spent.
Good Luck.
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
This wouldn't work in a area where there is no suitable soil deeper.
BTW the soft soils here are silt deposits from an old flood plain. A large hotel built here had the loading calclated incorrectly and one side sank 6" before they poured the second floor!
In our area the worst problems with settlement are poured basements under multistory houses. The old houses built on mud sills have the least problems, the houses built on driven piles seem to do well as well.
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house
Subsurface exploration using standard penetration testing(SPT) sampling might save you some time in evaluating the extent of the poor soil.
RE: I need help, 10ft of SOFT beautiful Top soil, in the way of my house