Shallow strip foundation

Shallow strip foundation is used during the construction of bathhouses, as well as small cottages. This base assumes a small depth of occurrence, not reaching the depth of freezing of the soil. This design is used quite often due to its low cost and ease of construction. Reviews of the shallow ribbon foundation will allow you to evaluate its quality and reliability.

Shallow strip foundation - reviews and discussions

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Shallow, shallow floating foundation - neat and reliable

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Such foundations are being built everywhere in Solnechnogorsk with private construction on swampy and heaving soils. They are used as the basis for frame and wooden houses. The main advantage is the lack of a large amount of earthwork. A trench is dug up to a depth of 80 and a width of up to 50 cm and filled with sand. In difficult cases of quicksand with reinforced concrete. A formwork with a height of up to 40 s is placed on top of which a reinforcing cage is placed.

All this is poured with concrete. Such construction is practiced everywhere and not for the first year. This gives a significant saving of money and time, because otherwise you would have to use flooded shield foundations. For heavier houses, for example from logs, such a strip foundation is strengthened with several pits punched to the depth of freezing and concreted.

pros

Significant cost reduction
Simplicity in execution

Minuses

Only for light and medium buildings

Term of use

more than five years

Recommendation to others

Recommend

Quality
5/5
Practicality
5/5
Price
4/5

Sashok

Strip foundation and sand cushion

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It was necessary to make the strip foundation elevated above ground level. The clay on the site is clayey and there wasn’t much point to dig into it. Thus, the foundation was obtained at 0.5 m in clay soil and another 1 m in imported sand. But for such a design, it is necessary to provide for proper and good drainage. Otherwise, the water that accumulates in the sand will not find a way out, because under it is clay. In winter, when frozen, it will freeze very much, increasing in volume - it will heave and may damage the SA foundation. We solved this issue by making a drainage ditch along the perimeter of the embankment with a slope of the trenches to the receiving well. Unfortunately, water has to be pumped out of it from time to time, since it does not leak further into the ground. On the whole, they are satisfied with the foundation themselves, made fairly quickly, with a leveling construction site.

pros

Reliable and solid foundation
Basement does not get wet

Minuses

The high cost of imported sand cushions

Term of use

half a year

Recommendation to others

Recommend

Quality
4/5
Practicality
4/5
Price
3/5

Radomir

Concrete casting and fixed formwork

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After numerous visits to various forums and a survey of neighbors, it was decided to build a tape flood foundation on the house by pouring it into the ground. However, having taken measures to waterproof the underground and warm the aerial parts. As a permanent formwork, sheets of extruded polystyrene foam were chosen, since it is much stronger and more durable than ordinary foam.

They dug a trench manually and carefully aligned the walls. At the bottom, a sand cushion was made of wet sand with tamping. A 200 micron thick plastic film was then laid. Joints are overlapped and carefully glued. This is done to preserve the cement milk and increase the strength of concrete.As a fixed part of the formwork, 50 mm foam sheets are used. Reinforcement was carried out with 10 mm reinforcement. While construction work is underway on the construction of the box, but the foundation is fine, it does not leak, it does not crack.

pros

Simplicity of construction
Cheaper materials to build

Minuses

The question remains about the durability of the design

Term of use

more than one year

Recommendation to others

Recommend

Quality
4/5
Practicality
5/5
Price
5/5

sanya

Monolithic strip foundation casting and waterproofing

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When building a house, a monolithic strip foundation was used. The formwork was made of wood very carefully and reliably. From the bottom they dug up with soil, made emphasis from the bars, and the bars wedged the upper part of the shields. Unfortunately, there was not enough material to make the formwork immediately to the entire height of the foundation, so fillings were made in parts 40 to 50 cm high. special attention was paid to waterproofing. Since the house is on a low site, and I would not want to flood. TechnoNicol was chosen as a waterproofing material.

Actually, it should be applied to a special mastic, melted with a special heat gun, but we didn’t have one or the other, so the walls were coated with bitumen melted in a bucket on the fire, it was applied to techno-nokol and so it was molded onto the walls of the strip foundation outside. So far, there have been no flooding.

pros

High reliability and bearing capacity

Minuses

High price
Many additional and auxiliary processes

Term of use

half a year

Recommendation to others

Recommend