That is solid advice, and it was, very nearly perfect despite my casual attention to it. And even settling is definitely normally the case if you’re considering freeze and ground heave in most soil types. But the soil I have in this area (the middle of a raw ungraded alder/maple forest) is so extremely soft, pure loam for about two feet down under these maples. It’s like building on top of a compost heap. A dream for a septic system, not so great for surface building. And we have a menagerie of underground life forms who just love to undermine random spots. I just had to re-level a picnic table in the camp because something burrowed underneath one corner. So “settling evenly” is rarely the case here. But yes, level today is always good, level tomorrow would be a dream. :) You’ll probably see in the next episode that in the two months since landing the foundation it’s already off level again. Gotta learn to work around it. Thanks for watching! :)
It actually should be perfectly level, so as the settling occurs it will generally settle equally.
That is solid advice, and it was, very nearly perfect despite my casual attention to it. And even settling is definitely normally the case if you’re considering freeze and ground heave in most soil types. But the soil I have in this area (the middle of a raw ungraded alder/maple forest) is so extremely soft, pure loam for about two feet down under these maples. It’s like building on top of a compost heap. A dream for a septic system, not so great for surface building. And we have a menagerie of underground life forms who just love to undermine random spots. I just had to re-level a picnic table in the camp because something burrowed underneath one corner. So “settling evenly” is rarely the case here.
But yes, level today is always good, level tomorrow would be a dream. :) You’ll probably see in the next episode that in the two months since landing the foundation it’s already off level again. Gotta learn to work around it. Thanks for watching! :)