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doglvr
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# Posted: 28 Apr 2020 05:51 - Edited by: doglvr
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I love this idea! Here is the website:URL The question is will it handle a larger size 32x26 post and beam build. I am building on pretty unlevel ground with granite ledge/boulders and I like the idea of not disturbing the ground. Has anybody done this with a larger size cabin?
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ICC
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# Posted: 28 Apr 2020 23:15
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The builder has not done anything unique, and nothing about that foundation should be repeated by anyone wanting a foundation that will not require maintenance and adjustments. He's in Nova Scotia and a so-called foundation like that will move every time the ground freezes if there is any moisture in the soil at all. Of course it's posted on the internet; it must be okay, plus he calls it the perfect foundation What could be wrong with it.
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Princelake
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# Posted: 29 Apr 2020 07:10
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My house/cabin was built this way when I bought it. The original section was done like this but with I beams built in probably the 60s then 2 addition put on in 97 and 99 with wood beams. My house is 970sqft. I've been here 10years now. After I moved in I tore down the paneling and drywalled the whole place. I have maybe 1 cracked seam. I live in northern Ontario where we get a ton of snow and frost. I'm mind blown my house does not shift.
Now if I were to build myself on ground in a remote area I would probably go the sonotube way. For my own cabin build I'm doing I poured piers right on bedrock
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LittleDummerBoy
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# Posted: 29 Apr 2020 09:47
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How do you measure height?
At my Camp the ground move vertically and unevenly in the winter.
How do you keep your 9 piers on one level plane? I don't see 9 jacks and a liquid level.
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snobdds
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# Posted: 29 Apr 2020 13:15 - Edited by: snobdds
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Sketchy...
If your building in clay soils...you have to have a foundation that does below the frost line. If you don't have clay soil, you can probably get away with a some sort of pad foundation. But it will settle over time and need adjusting. Build in adjustment mechanisms to do that before you build.
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doglvr
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# Posted: 1 May 2020 13:35 - Edited by: doglvr
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"Build in adjustment mechanisms to do that before you build. "
Such as.....
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snobdds
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# Posted: 2 May 2020 22:26
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A heavy duty screw jack.
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rebar
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# Posted: 3 May 2020 14:02
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Quoting: snobdds A heavy duty screw jack.
I wondered the same thing, but Ive never seen a picture of a cabin on screw jacks..
If you had a dry level area with good drainage, why couldn't you build on skids on gravel? I doubt it would ever need releveling. But would you use mobile home tie downs?
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