Today we met with the structural engineers to discuss the foundation yet again. We've moved from a pier foundation to a post-tentsion slab to conventional slab due to the results of the soil report. The soil is considered "good" in their eyes (for Houston) with a plasticity of 15 but the water table is high. Generally this means that there should be relatively little movement but digging piers would be difficult or possible problematic. The post-tension option was dismissed due to the lack of width in the slab to accomodate the tension required on the cables. The conventional slab is basically like placing a waffle on the ground. After digging out 6 inches, placing 24 inches of packed fill, and then trenching, the slab will be poured.
The exciting part is that this process can be started very soon. Everything else is wrapping up regarding plans. There will be a little bit of steel in the garage due to accounting for wind load. It was exciting to see the plans and the life of their own they have seem to have taken on. So many more notes and diagrams are on them since they left us. Next post - selections and allowances.
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