Re: Odp: [strawbale] a technical question about foundations

[Herbert Gruber <d.sign@aon...>]

Title: Re: Odp: [strawbale] a technical question about foundations

Dear Rikki
Hundreds of houses in Austria and former German Democratic Republic are built on earth/clay with rubber-trench-foundations. We too, live in such a house.
The foundation is about 1 meter deep (under the frost-line) as usual foundations are in winter-cold areas. So don´t panic about using a common and traditional technique, which has proved to resist over more than hundred years.
best wishes, Herbert
> Thanks for the advice.
> Actually, I have read "A strawbale house" and "Earth floors" by the Steens, but i missed the bit about the clay slip. 
> What really worried me is building on land that is pure clay.  A non-expert said that I could have problems with the whole house moving on a clay site, a i don´t know if the rubble trench foundation will be enought to avoid that.  . .