Rethink Your Life! Finance, health, lifestyle, environment, philosophy |
The Work of Art and The Art of Work Kiko Denzer on Art |
|
|
[Cob] Tires For a Foundation?beno beno at web.viFri Sep 16 13:59:46 CDT 2005
Hi, everyone; I'm new ;) Working on building a 3-room school in the Dominican Republic where I live. I have read enough to recognize the problems inherent in using concrete for a foundation. Where I live we don't have lots of large stones (stones larger than a baseball). But we have lots of small 'caliche' limestone. I was thinking about using a configuration of tires kind of like this: http://web.vi/foundation.jpg That image isn't perfect nor is it necessarily representative of what we'll end up building, but the idea depicted is 3 circular classrooms on top of a bed of old tires (of different sizes) that would be stuffed with caliche tamped down hard. The tires would be bound together by nylon rope, wire or something (suggestions?). Outside the tire system we'd also tamp down caliche. What do y'all think? Has anybody done anything similar? Thanks, beno
|