Soil lifts and compaction schedule for solid sand under a slab on grade home 4" conc floor? Home will have CMU frost walls.
Building a 2700 sq ft home. Using 4" conc floor and radiant hydronic heat with tubes in the concrete. My spec for the floor is the following, what if anything can or...
OK guys, Here goes again.
I last asked for your help stabilizing the roadbed for the 1/4 mile lane to my planned home across virgin soil. Now, I'm building a simple post and frame shed in the same area as this roadbed, laterally in the same position at the base of a small forested hill. The...
I am a mech engineer, building a home with 1500 ft lane in from the blacktop over mostly sandy but also clay and silty soil. I have an area on the lane that is soft and spongy and allows the dump truck to sink down and make big ruts. I had already planned to use some Propex separation...
I am building a home. TO calculate the foundation base width I need an estimate, at least, of the soil bearing capacity. The ground is frozen here in Minnesota and the site is not ready. I cannot do an soil penetration testing etc. so I'm wondering where I can get data from some source . . ...
