Strengthening the foundations with your own hands

Every owner wants to see the most beautiful, most solid house in the area on their site. But if you got a good house, but on a bad site, which contributed to the partial destruction of the foundation, then you need to take emergency measures, so we will use the advice of experienced builders who reinforced foundations of varying complexity.

To do this, we will need cement, gravel, steel sheets 100x100mm, steel mesh for the foundation, reinforcement 12-14mm, for the entire perimeter of the foundation, and a manual bending machine for pipes and fittings will be very useful, which will help create a reinforcing frame for a new foundation. Do not be surprised, in order not to replace the foundation, which is very time-consuming and expensive, we will use the old grandfather's method, which will strengthen the foundation from all sides.

The first step, from which the strengthening of foundations begins, is the search for the cause of destruction. If everything is in order with the soil, then you need to look for another reason, periodically putting up beacons at the places of cracks inside the building. It happens that a house is built on a place where a perennial tree with a very powerful root system grew, and as the roots decompose, voids form in the soil, washed away by groundwater, into which our foundation wants to settle. A necessary condition for the repair of the foundation is the fragmentary restoration of the damaged area! That is, you first dig out a section 1-1.5 m to the depth of the foundation, carry out work, and only then dig out the next section. We start the restoration from the corners to carry out the main reinforcement. We dig out an angle of 1m in both directions, to the depth of the foundation, until we find voids or other causes of subsidence. We fill the voids with gravel, or construction debris, tightly tamping. We take a steel sheet, bend it in half with a pipe bend, drill two holes on both sides and screw the sheet onto the corner of the foundation. Now we will need two pieces of reinforcement of 2m bent in half. We weld them to the sheet on both sides of the corner along the top and bottom. This will be our reinforced foundation belt. Now we are building a concrete corner bull 0.40x0.40mx0.40, like the supports of a bridge, which will have the main load of the foundation. The formwork is being built, the reinforcement is connected to the frame for the pillar in both directions and concrete is poured.
Strengthening of foundations is carried out along the entire perimeter of buildings. While the concrete bulls are gaining strength, we can safely dig out one wall of the building to weld the reinforcement to our corner pieces and to the pins driven into the foundation walls. Then the second tier of the foundation for the plinth is being built, which is much narrower than our bulls and the native foundation. For it, an 8-10mm reinforcing frame in one row or a metal mesh made of thick wire nailed to a base cleaned of finishing can be used. A formwork is being built, 15-20 cm from the base and a new foundation is being poured. Platforma ənənəvi oyunları innovativ inkişaflarla birləşdirən unikal təcrübə təqdim edir. Veb saytın və mobil tətbiqin yüksək sürəti sevimli əyləncələrə fasiləsiz çıxışı təmin edir. Loyallıq sistemi pinup xüsusi diqqətə layiqdir və bu, təkcə yeni gələnləri deyil, həm də adi oyunçuları mükafatlandırır. Onlayn kazinolar texnologiyanın həyəcana xidmət etdiyi, gələcəyin virtual kazinosunun unikal atmosferini yaradan yerdir.