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Title: Fabric Formed Foundation (better picts)
Post by: flyingvan on February 02, 2012, 02:21:26 PM
  Here are some more pics from my first owner builder project, the fabric formed foundation.  As MountainDon pointed out before, be real sure your boulders can support a house.  Where there IS soil, go deep---I went 36".
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9wuaq4RkRAk/TyrbXfYKHmI/AAAAAAAABfc/8sdbMZTGHCU/s320/Forms1_WEB.jpg)
Here is a spot where the boulder reached the surface.  I had to cut it down some and epoxy in rebar.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CaoNj10VMr0/TyrbdpISpyI/AAAAAAAABfk/skHJfu5Dip4/s320/Forms2_WEB.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZS8u3LWGzqA/TyrbhV17PtI/AAAAAAAABfs/_pNo0d-_6rg/s320/Forms3_WEB.jpg)
Here is some of the framework, suspended over the trench prior to the fabric and rebar
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ACGXEXDwqoo/Tyrbk2cYnAI/AAAAAAAABf0/cPjOt7v1N7E/s320/prepour.JPG%5Dhttp://)
..And here it is, all ready to pump in the concrete
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ACGXEXDwqoo/Tyrbk2cYnAI/AAAAAAAABf0/cPjOt7v1N7E/s320/prepour.JPG) 
No, it's not a really steep slope---I just couldn't turn the picture.  Just rotate your monitor 90 degrees and prop it up with a building code book.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zHQXPNZylxA/TyrcCOrl9aI/AAAAAAAABf8/618ALqDVXck/s320/Form3_WEB.jpg)
Here's the fabric all inflated out.  Notice an anchor bolt in every yoke.  This spot went 40" deep between two massive subsurface boulders.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BMtIpYreTX8/TyrcKshwj6I/AAAAAAAABgE/6L8DWNzZx30/s320/Form2_WEB.jpg)
This was the only 'shallow' spot where the foundation rests atop the boulder---same spot as the first pictures. 
Title: Re: Fabric Formed Foundation (better picts)
Post by: Barry Broome on February 11, 2012, 10:06:26 PM
I just turned my monitor 90 degrees to the right and started laughing... it didnt' seem to help...   :o
Title: Re: Fabric Formed Foundation (better picts)
Post by: Barry Broome on February 11, 2012, 10:07:18 PM
It's one of those things you do... and then feel like an idiot for having done it.. and then just laugh at yourself LOL
Title: Re: Fabric Formed Foundation (better picts)
Post by: MountainDon on February 11, 2012, 10:15:48 PM
QuoteJust rotate your monitor 90 degrees and prop it up with a building code book.

You can do that w/o the book in windows Control Panel |  Display settings     ;D
Title: Re: Fabric Formed Foundation (better picts)
Post by: flyingvan on February 12, 2012, 10:14:19 AM
 Well, it looks like turning your monitor DID help---looks like the picture is right now!  Thanks whoever fixed it