Ramming foundation cushion. Which way is better?

When building a house, in my opinion, the most attention need to be given to the foundation. After all, how quality will be made of the work depends on all further construction, and, most importantly, the reliability and durability of the house.

A very important step in the construction of the foundation is to prepare its foundation - pillow.

About my choice of material for backfill, I mentioned in one of his articles. Now I want to tell more about the main thing - the process:

Ram sand.

Before the construction, of course, I studied this process, the technology, and above all the possible ways of carrying out the works. I found three options.

• Tamping vibratory plates.
• Gidrotrambovka.
• Manually tamping.

In my opinion, using all of these methods, you can achieve a good result. It is important to do everything carefully ( because for yourself).

My choice was based on the basis of physical and technical possibilities the realization of these works.

Vibrating plate.

Probably, the ratio of labor-time and quality - this is the best option.

But there is a caveat, which did not allow me to use this method - working alone.

Even when you consider the high rate of compaction, is not going anywhere low-speed filling with sand. And while work would still take a few weeks. Accordingly rental compactor, I would spend a lot of money.

So that from this version I refused.

Gidrotrambovka.

Here, the seal occurs due to sand, fill pillows are very large volume of water.

Using this method, I have seen only at the production floor on the ground, when it was flooded with tape. Those. there is a closed circuit, and the water does not spread on the edges, and goes down, compacting the sand. It uses a huge amount of water.

But how to implement it, I did not understand in the nude pit ...

Rammer manually.

It is this method I chose, as there is nothing else to do. But this does not mean that I was ready for the worst quality.

Just in case, you had to spend a lot more time and effort on the job, to get a normal seal.

I still think that under any scenario, the foundation will give a certain draft. Here, perhaps, more important, that this precipitate was as uniform as possible.

So that even when the rammer is a little worse(Within reason), it does not matter. The main thing that it "It was worse equally".

And, to be honest, since making the pillow, it seemed unrealistic amount of work (11x11 meters and a height of 0.5), But once again I was convinced that "the road by walking only"

And what a way to go chooses one for himself ...

Therefore, in this matter, as in the majority of problems in the construction, we must proceed from the specific situation. And that fits into another construction site, you can not come, and even harm.

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