My life 3

Well, here I became the happy owner of 6 acres (ha ha ha). What? perhaps it is necessary to build the house. But I had no experience. Thinking decided to take the easy way, buy 2 cabins construction 3x6 meters and collect them in a single house.
Newspaper ads, coffee, cigarette, forums...that's again expensive, this shed, no electric wiring with one window and a door is like an airplane wing! from 100 thousand rubles, and this without finishing! But if with all the "Goodies" and more, multiply by 2... ha, Yes for such money I will build a house yourself!
Designs, drawings, device houses, spent one month researching in the Internet, but now I understand the prospect of my building. Not crammed in the first place to dig and pour a Foundation (as do many). And doing geological research of the soil!

What is it? - ask me many.
And this is the structure of our soil, to what depth is. And this is why? - you will ask. The answer is simple, what would you know what we're dealing with, and what kind of Foundation is needed under "our" house that he hadn't collapsed, or cracked and it has not warped.

There are two ways to go forward:
1 Order these same surveys at the firm.
2 to Do it myself.

The first option was dropped by itself, because I'm not going to build a 3 stories house (my frame), but again, it's all expensive! Go the easy route (option number 2).
Shop all for the home and garden were acquired by 2-metre hand auger:

Begin to drill

But drill, and every 10 cm look what comes out of the hole.
Better record and select the images.

Code drill spun into the ground at the handle, have output something like this:

I was not lucky, my land has the following characteristics:
turf 10cm (unaccounted for)
black earth 50cm (bad)
Fat clay 150cm (not bad but not good)

Frost depth in our area 125cm (in the cold, dry winters), it's not pleasant. As if to fill a normal strip Foundation that it needs to be below the depth of freezing! And dig the Tronchet 140cm deep and even 6x9 meters what is not really wanted, but a lot of concrete and rebar will go to this Foundation is that it will cost the same as 2 cabins.
It was decided to pour a pier Foundation, all the calculations needed 12 columns, depth 140-160 cm, but we're building for yourself ;-) perestrakhovanie decided to fill 35 (every 150cm), built for the first time, and I do not want then to redo everything, the money is mine.

Gathering thoughts and strength in one of the lovely warm summer evenings, going to drill those holes under the bars must be the same 35 pieces, (made trickier first survey just drilled in the corner of the future Foundation). Drilled 2 PCs 160cm, begin to understand that I quit the force, but to drill the clay is half the fun! Again, Newspapers, ads, forums, find service manual Moto drill. Why manual? Yes, because the tractor ka many do, out expensive. Tractor in 32 holes asked 8 thousand rubles, and for manual Moto drill, took me 2,500 rubles. Save, enjoy, and buy in a hardware store plastic pipes for Sewerage with a diameter of 110mm and a length of 2 meters. At the moment it is the most expensive purchase (except for area).
Once ordered, gravel, sand, cement, and rebar.

The device of my Foundation:
1 In a hole in the bottom pours the gravel 5cm
2 To put a plastic pipe plug for tightness( it's better, since concrete will not be in contact with the soil and pick up moisture from it)
3 install the pipe vertically, with the cap down and paved pipe from the outside with gravel (to clay it in the spring not squeezed out of the soil, remember about frost heave?)
4 Laser level to note all the pipe in one plane and sawn off.

In each pipe set rebar from fill sand-cement mixture (many will ask why no gravel? Explain, briefly, the crushed stone is needed as a filler to save on cement, in my case, with 3 valves, such a solution does not fill the tube completely, will void, Yes all the setting sand and cement mix stronger than regular concrete, although consumption is more )

Here is my Foundation 6x9 meters

Remember the 4 point Pro laser level?
Here it is the plane)

On the work done:
The finished basement under the house (thanks to friends and acquaintances who helped to deliver building materials to the site, special thanks to @dreamer , helped to find the valve cheaper than the store, thank you father and brother, and helped install the pipes and pour the concrete, concrete is kneaded by hand, no electric yet). evaluation of materials of the Foundation was published in 23 thousand roubles. Cheaper than screw piles.
Made the documents for the land plot (not privatised).
But the most important news was the information from the Chairman of the garden. Next year will be to gasify areas! And as the city grows, our garden will be able to log into the city streets, followed by a registration!

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to be continued....