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    soil lifts and compaction schedule for solid sand under a slab on grade home 4" conc floor?

    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...
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    post & frame shed-- related to roadbed stabilization!

    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...
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    roadbed stabilization

    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...
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    soil bearing capacity in an area

    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 . . ...

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