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[cob] soil cement foundationfrancine fran2000a1 at yahoo.comTue May 31 21:00:49 CDT 2005
Hello Everyone - It's been great reading all the good ideas and useful advice this spring. I'm into my second week of digging a foundation trench, very good progress is being made. The trench should be completed in few days for about a 500 sq ft cob cottage. I've had a little help but mostly dug myself by hand. My plan is to make a stemwall from soil cement and add urbanite to the top of the soil cement, around 16-18 inches to go on top of the rubble trench. The plan includes landscaping cloth on the rubble trench to keep the soil cement from seeping into my trench. I'll be using 1/4" masonite to make forms hopefully that will be flexible enough for any curve. According to Becky Bee in her book soil cement will work. My goal is to shorten the time spent mortaring stone work since I am not a spring chick anymore, stones are heavy. The house site is on a slight slope facing south, and I will be building the wall with a step down in the stemwall to work with the slope. Has anyone on the list tried soil cement in their foundation? Looking for advice, pros and cons on using it. Ways to improve my plan above. Any help would be really appreciated. Francine __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
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