Well, I'm trying to get away without pouring anything except the spread footings. Think PWF.
Which way do the tubes lean? toward the basement or away from the basement?
Here's the problem:
Lots of homes in Denver are being scraped and replaced. One time in roughly every 300 homes, the excavation can cause an "issue" on the adjacent property.
So now, the City requires shoring before excavation. The status quo solution has been drilled & reinforced piers...
Dick,
When steel studs are insulated in this manner (on the outside), there's no thermal performance penalty.
It pretty easy to assume that a majority of new homes will be replaced within 60-200 years given the way homes typically become obsolete.
A concrete foundation can easily last that...
In residential home construction, concrete basement walls are also called the foundation. Below that, on a gravel bed, or "undisturbed soil" is a poured footing that is usually wider than the wall.
Well, the amount of concrete certainly is a lot less. Some folks think that concrete has so much embodied energy that it's not very green. When it's time to recycle the materials, a small amount of steel is better than a large amount of concrete.
The chemicals in a wood PWF foundation...
Jimbo2,
You talk about a ductile footing. A brick foundation using lime mortar would qualify as a ductile footing. Of course, this was a common way to do it before concrete took over. This was actually a pretty "forgiving" solution to all the potential crack-causing problems.
There...
Jimbo2,
I think you're touching on an important point. I believe that any drainage system of this general type will eventually clog. It's just a matter of time and drainage flowrate. "Dirt" gets entrained in any sort of water flow, and deposits at the low point or when the particle...
Right, I'm building a composite shell. No "point loads", not even the occasional 2 x 4 in the exterior walls. I feel that a ridge beam is unnecessary as well. All the commercially available panels have lab test results available.
I just can't find an engineer who can do a...
I've been studying homes built with structural insulated panels for a few months. I'm not a structural engineer, but it seems to me that these shell type homes are statically indeterminate. Yet all the structural analyses I've reviewed for these homes, the engineers are using Post and Beam...
I'm familiar with those areas, and I won't be building there. But the comment got me thinking... the biggest problem with these soils is cracking of any concrete within the foundation system. This is due to external pressures applied by the soil. If you're using pins, and the soil pressure...
I'm considering spec'ing this foundation system for a house:
http://www.pinfoundations.com/html/ink_dp.html
The diamond piers cost only $165 each and 25 mins. labor. The load rating is 8600 lbs per pier, with 2000lbs uplift, for the soil conditions. This is so cheap and quick, it's very tempting...
