I had this idea that you could avoid frost heave by building houses on
stilts. You could drive the stilts deeply enough so that they wouldn’t be
affected by frost heave. You would then build the rest of the house in the
air, thus avoiding having to dig a huge hole in the ground. I thought the
idea might work, but it sounded kind of wacky, so I was very pleased when
I came across this
site. It describes just this technique, which apparently was popular
in Siberia.
posted at 17:00 on Tue, 07 Dec, 2004 |
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