Is it really a bad idea to fasten urbanite with mortar? The logic makes sense (again, water penetrates, then expands when it freezes, thus cracking the foundation), but aren't homes routinely built from brick and/or stone and/or cinderblock foundations in exactly this way? What makes this situation any different?Ģ.
#BUILDING A LOG CABIN FOUNDATION MOVIE#
(The wife says I can't spend any of the family money on this cabin, so any money I do acquire would be bits at a time and in small amounts, until I land that movie star gig I've been auditioning for).ġ. Not terrible, I supposed, but it's currently prohibitive. To pour the foundation would cost about 1K. I'm trying my best to be environmentally conscious and cost-effective. This is what I've been doing: extracting with a hand pump, pouring a load of concrete, waiting a few days, then repeating the process all over again. The greater issue is that if I do pour concrete, I need to extract the water to maintain proper mixing proportions. I've been told by builders the issue itself is not a problem because concrete is routinely exposed to water. But now I have a new problem: The water table is quite high, higher than the frost line.
So I decided to put the urbanite chunks in the bottom of the hole (mixed with mortar), then make the top out of solid concrete. Someone said that was a bad idea ( urbanite foundation at stackexchange) because water would penetrate the cracks between the urbanite, expand when frozen, and crack the concrete. I began with the idea that I would build with urbanite (broken chunks of concrete), fastened with mortar (much like one would lay bricks with mortar). I'm struggling quite a bit with the foundation at the moment. I'm in the process of building a log cabin tiny house in the woods adjacent to my home.
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