SB: Re: Re: Re: Question about strawbale house on stilts

["GuyW" <guyiii@home.com>]

Bill: even with heavy equipment, its hard to achieve the same level of
compaction as native soil.  Even 90%+ compaction is 90%+ of laboratory
compaction, not native.

The settlement is only noticeable when you slab or walls crack  :o)

-Guy- from Sandy Eggo, the birthplace of construction defect litigation.


> > Just thought I'd point out that standard practice (assuming the in place
> > soil is fairly dense / compact) is to also excavate the "cut" section,
so
> > that there is not a "hard" line between fill soils that will settle, and
> cut
> > areas that will not.
> >
> > -Guy-
>
> Hi Guy- Assuming you meant "excavate the "fill" section", that is news to
> me, but I'm not an excavation guy :-).   I have run a gas powered tamper
> over fill sections on commercial jobs (something like a Yellow Submarine-
> inspired single foot, with ferocious stomping power), and if you do that
as
> the engineer specs (4" lifts, or 6" or  8" or whatever), with a bit of
> water, I find it
> hard to believe there will be any noticeable settling.
>
> Cheers from the Wasatch- Bill



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