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Discussion in 'Pull up a chair and sit for a spell' started by cardboard, Jan 9, 2012.

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  1. FLHTbiker

    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    Nope just a big ditch, or a aqua duct :D
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    FLHT, why are you giving Cardboard such a hard time about drainage? It would be a lot easier to just pile up the surrounding dirt into little hills and then build your house on top of one.
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  4. FLHTbiker

    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    I thought about that, but it just made to much sense besides was having to much fun. :D
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    a slab is the way to go.....putting houses on stilts opens yourself up for the house trying to fall over........right cardboard???? if the house slab is done properly with french drains and porous soil it will stay standing a lot longer than one on stilts. this is proven...ask any qualified/licensed builder.......not a shade tree builder
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    pun intended...
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  7. cardboard

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    If you fon't keep the ditch's so they will drain
    And you go threw a record drought
    If you live near the lake and yer house was build in the 60's you might need to have it leveled
    I would hate up owncs house on a slab
    Period
    Houston is starting to make builders build homes on pier and beam in some places in the heights
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    You for git I go all a
    Over this lake doing work
    U seen homes on concrete slabs that you couldn't open the fr dr to go into the house this past year
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  9. hotroadking

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    Well if it's that big a problem, move LOL

    Kinda line New Awlins, fun place to visit,
    dirty, stinky, smells like the backside of a bar after
    a football beerfest,

    Katrina washed out 100 years of crap into the water.

    You build your city under sealevel, what do you expect
    sympathy? nope.. not from me...

    Grab a bucket and start bailing....
    hotroadking, Jan 10, 2012
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  10. FLHTbiker

    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    Like Chuck said if there built properly and to current code or better you won't have an issue, I know I inspect them all the time.
    The majority of the home here are built on a perimeter foundation of concrete with concrete piers and would post. This leaves a crawl space of a average of 24 inches high. I get to crawl them all the time. They do that here because of all the rain fall we get. Some our built on a slab but only if there a two story with day light basement like mine.
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  11. hotroadking

    hotroadking Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Might consider putting some of that sealer spray from late night tv on the bottom of the house, so you can float out to sea if it rains too much...
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  12. cardboard

    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Ever heard of Black Gumbo
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  13. FLHTbiker

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    It is a black clay" what some soil people call "black gumbo"?
    Many people near big rivers grow fine crops in "black gumbo". The problem, as I recall, is difficult tillage. It sticks to your tools at first, then gets too hard to work. The trick, again if I recall correctly, is to get the correct working condidtions and mix in the right additives. Then you actually have some advantages as it is quite rich soil.
    Search lasagna mulch, use this method and forget it. Over time organic matter will change your black clay to a fine growing area.:D

    There is another "black clay" that is a volcanic soil. I know nothing about it.
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  14. cardboard

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    Black Gumbo is in the ground here. When its dry the Black Gumbo settles and drops the ground down and when its wet the black gumbo swells up. This causes a lot of foundation problems
    I live one house off the 2nd largest lake in Texas its like 4 miles across the lake. The waves at times gets up like the ocean. we have waves up to 5' or so. It Pounds the ground and shakes everything.
    And we have a huge amount of water that flows threw it.
    All this makes the ground shift.
    Old Chucktx lives 33 miles south of me. He don't know about living around this lake.
    We service 40 miles up one side of the lake and 40 miles down the other side of the lake. We see homes build on slabs and pier and beam and on Blocks and stilks. They all Move.
    We winterized a home a right after Labor day weekend and we needed the front door open to get into the house. We had to put a pry bar on top of it and kick it open.
    The house was build on a 3' concrete slab. The ground here moves Period.
    I've talked to people that has lived here for 40 yrs. They said accept it or move.
    I like where I live. Like a lot of my neighbors. No home owners association.
    House was build in 69. There are NO Building codes here. Hello.
    Nobody cares what you build. you got to live in it.
    The codes are on Septic tank systems.
    No city water. We have well water that supplies the whole small subdivision
    NO county gas for heaters. No county sewer lines. NO city police.
    No fire department. I live in cattle country man.

    The picture of me sittin on the bike is at the boat ramp in our neighborhood. The land you see in the middle of the lake is Pine Island. 4 miles up the lake. Its in the middle of the lake.
    Here is a picture of the main road out of my subdivision.

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    I don't live in a city. I keep tryin to say that. And everybody compares their place to the city. I'm in the one of the Poorest counties in Texas.

    House it paid for. Not finished but Its home. Don't know if I will ever git it finished.
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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  16. FLHTbiker

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    If yea don't like it move :D
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    like i have the money to move
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    Now that idea I like, you can even put a screen door on the bottom and seal it... :D
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    I'm 125 miles from the coast. you ain't making it from here to there.
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  20. FLHTbiker

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    Why???
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Yer gonna float something here and git it to the coast.
    O.K.
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