Thread 2932301

>be american
>don't attach house to foundation

>>2932301 (OP)
>Be European
>Have 4 generations living in a 400 year old brick shithouse.

>>2932309
>400 year old brick shithouse
>pic rel is public toilets
WTF is wrong with your city that you either don't know what public toilets are or have people living in them?

>>2932301 (OP)
its a portable house

>>2932344
>portable
lol

It looks like the foundation collapsed
Probably something to do with permafrost

>>2932340
It was only public before the middle eastern Africans moved in

>>2932301 (OP)
>>2932344
it's a semi-attached house

>>2932588
>It looks like the foundation collapsed
American "foundation"

>>2933446
nice try, that's clearly an eu style block

>>2932588
as a plumber i've crawled under a lot of houses. shit like this is more common than not
i've stopped mentioning it to homeowners

>>2932301 (OP)
apparently you can just jack up these houses and even move them around if you wanted to
it's a feature not a bug

>>2932588
>foundation collapsed
???
foundation in the developed world means a concrete slab at least a meter deep on which the walls are built
are you saying american houses are built on stilts?

>>2932309
Ngl to my brethren herr, that brick structure would be a 10/10 home for me

>>2934825
On permafrost, yes
A concrete slab will fail

>>2934825
Yurop is the tutorial campaign

>>2934825
>are you saying american houses are built on stilts?
yes, sir!

>>2935124
>America does something
> :|
>Japan does the same thing
> :O

>>2934825
>concrete slab at least a meter deep
lol no. The footings on the side of the slab are a meter to a meter and a half deep, depends on your frost line. More than that if you want a proper basement wall. The slab itself is 10cm deep for brick and block construction, but I've seen people do 5cm ones for wooden houses. The reason for that is concrete and rebar are free, labour is expensive, and you can pour a 5cm slab with your friends and two rented/borrowed mixers in an afternoon, no labour cost incurred.

>>2935383
This depends on when it was made. My house was built when slabs were fairly new in my area. It is a solid slab. It is only about 25 cm total but the same thickness all the way though. That said, it is a small, single story wooden house and we don't get much cold weather here.

>>2935139
>>2935124
>>2934842
>>2933446
Not much wrong with stumps except termites if you fuck em up.

>>2935469
only Aussies call them stumps, and Aussies have the best selection of Galvanized adjustable ones. In North America I'm pretty sure there's only one manufacturer of galvanized adjustable crawlspace columns. In Europe crawl spaces are not common in houses.

>>2932301 (OP)
>foundation drops 5 feet during landslip
I doubt any house would stay attached to its foundation in a 9.2 megathrust earthquake that lasts 4.5 minutes.

>>2935685
>In Europe crawl spaces are not common in houses.
yeah just like we don't have fridges

>>2937157
Where in Europe do they build with crawl spaces? In central Europe slab on ground is most common.

>>2937261
why is the exterminator playing with cement?

>>2937261
We used to in Sweden and likely the other nordic countries.
Notice the big fireplace? They cause problems now since they aren't used for heating anymore. This leads to moisture build up and the houses can rot from below without proper ventilation. When the fireplace was used daily all moisture was "burned" away.

>>2937276
Makes sense. Even with ventilation the space can be very damp/moldy since the earth is a source of infinity moisture + on many days/nights outside humidity is extremely high.
The better approach is to lay an impermeable ground/wall sheet and close off the vents.
Insulate the walls and don't insulate the main floor.
Circulate a little air from interior to crawlspace and the crawlspace becomes a conditioned space, not much different from the interior in terms of temperature/humidity.

>>2937312
>howtomakeasaunaunderyourhouse.jpg
thats the most retarded shit ive ever heard. theres a reason old balloon framed farm houses sitting on wood blocks are still around 150 years later. you might freeze your ass off on the winter but it wont trap moisture to rot

>>2937332
>theres a reason old balloon framed farm houses sitting on wood blocks are still around 150 years later.
Maybe in Arizona. Elsewhere such houses are rotting/crumbling from below.

Which moisture are you trapping if you've blocked off the main source of moisture, the ground?

>>2937261
Benelux

>>2937342
enjoy your mold grow room
see also
>>2937419
this is supposed to be an impossibility by your assessment

>>2937528
What is the main floor made of and what kind of structure supports it?

>>2937548
The mold grow room is the crawlspace with a vented perimeter wall, since the venting is often adding moisture to the space rather than removing.

https://buildingscience.com/documents/bareports/ba-0401-conditioned-crawlspace-construction-performance-and-codes/view.

>this is supposed to be an impossibility by your assessment
He's considering adding a cripple wall, so it sounds like the perimeter is not enclosed. That approach works as well since the space under the building is mostly open to the outside like in pic related, not just tiny openings as with a typical crawlspace.

A functioning crawlspace is either treated as 100% exterior space, or 100% interior space. The problems arise when it's built somewhere in between.
https://buildingscience.com/documents/building-science-insights-newsletters/bsi-115-crawlspaces-either-or-out