We use the grill foundation for the erection of the house

Choosing the foundation for your house, you should take into account the characteristics of the area on which it will stand. First of all, you need to contact the local geodetic service. In it you can be enlightened about the soils on which you will build a cottage. The fact is that the abyssal soils are capable of causing a lot of trouble, and the nearby groundwater will not lead to anything good.

Professionals will be able to give you detailed recommendations on what kind of basis for the house should be used. But because of the high cost of this kind of work they are not suitable for everyone. That is why we will consider the grill foundation, which is characterized by high reliability and versatility of use.

However, when building a frame cottage, you can do with the simplest light foundations. For example, light columnar bases are ideally suited in this case. But if you plan to build something more serious, you can not do without a quality foundation. For example, for a quality log or brick house, the foundation stone is just right.

Piles for it can be made of metal, concrete or a combined method. They differ not only in their weight, size and shape, but also in their mounting methods. In the simplest form, you can generally use specially prepared logs.

The only problem is that eventually the tree inevitably loses its operational qualities, which can lead to cracks not only of the foundation, but also of the supporting walls. Therefore, the pile-foundation foundation (the price of which in this case is quite high) is best done on the basis of reinforced concrete structures.

Depending on the required weight distribution of the house, the piles can be arranged evenly (along the perimeter of the house's basement) and in a "bush" way, supporting the most dangerous areas. The grillage is good in that it allows even on unstable soils to make a whole monolithic foundation pillow. Piles can be completely planted in the ground, you can leave their tops on the surface of the soil, and you can significantly take them out of the soil. In any case, the grill foundation will reliably cope with its task.

The ways of its installation can be very different. The easiest way is to use ready-made piles of reinforced concrete, which are manufactured directly at the factory. But for private house-building they are used extremely rarely, because for them it is necessary to use heavy construction equipment. That is why the method of drilling is most often used. In this case, a well of the required configuration is digged, directly into which the finished reinforcement is lowered. But it is not always possible to build a ribbon-and-foundation foundation in such a reliable way, since not everyone has the opportunity to call a drilling rig.

In this case, you can apply bored piles. The pipe is clogged with a sufficient diameter into which a bit of concrete is poured. After the first batch has hardened, it is removed and a new portion is poured. But the easiest way is to perform the grill foundation using screw piles. Due to the fact that they are made of high-quality metal, screwing them into the ground is not too difficult.