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[MelissaBaby]

My house, a ranch style house built in a subdivision in the late 50's, is built off the ground. There is no slab foundation and there are no basements here. It's somewhat common. A benefit would be it creates a crawl space under the house where workers can get to pipes and electrical lines. It's also off the ground in case of a small flood, and I do live in a flood plain, protected by levee's.

Hell, when I was a kid, we lived for a while in an old house that was just sitting on piles of stones.

 

[dirk2024]

Hell, when I was a kid, we lived for a while in an old house that was just sitting on piles of stones.

This is also earthquake country, so that wouldn't work for us.

 

[MrPixel]

It's somewhat common.

Very common! Crawl spaces remain the preferred tract-home construction style in most of the Midwest. Basements are expensive, so pouring (or building-up) a perimeter footing cuts tens of thousands off of construction costs versus basements. There's less of an advantage versus concrete slabs, where the costs are at the front-end in tight planning for plumbing and other mechanicals. We're building a house right now, so these issues are near-and-dear.

 

[StillStunned]

In many places in Europe, you just build in top of what was there already. I have family who live in a Georgian manor house built on the remains of a Roman fort.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

In many places in Europe, you just build in top of what was there already. I have family who live in a Georgian manor house built on the remains of a Roman fort.

The Cathedral of Palermo is built atop the foundation of a Mosque that predates it. As a result, it's the only RC Cathedral that's oriented towards Mecca rather than due East. The transept line (North-South), used to mark the solar year, and thus date Easter each year (first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox), crosses the transept at a diagonal rather than running parallel to it.

 

[Lifestyle66]

Shot in the dark but maybe this is some structure on a trailer park type lot? No basement or slab foundation?

That sounds somewhat judgemental

There are many parts of the country were soil conditions don't allow basements or aren't good for concrete slabs (which have their own problems).

I owned a home in an area with sandy soil and relatively high underground water table. Brick houses were build on concrete footers and looked like that pic. The house I owned would have been condemned before I bought it due to the routine standing water under it after every rain. But I fixed that by improving the drainage to rapidly removed that water via drain pipes under that footer.

If that house has been built on a slab, the concrete would have repeatedly cracked.

 

[NotWise]

The Cathedral of Palermo is built atop the foundation of a Mosque that predates it. As a result, it's the only RC Cathedral that's oriented towards Mecca rather than due East. The transept line (North-South), used to mark the solar year, and thus date Easter each year (first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox), crosses the transept at a diagonal rather than running parallel to it.

Happened around here, too. The 600-year old house at Taos Pueblo was built on an Anasazi structure. The Spanish mission churches at Gran Quivira where built up from pre-existing pueblo structures. San Miguel chapel in Santa Fe and the San Miguel mission church in Socorro (both of Mexican origin) were built on the ruins of older Spanish-colonial churches.

They used to call the San Miguel chapel in Santa Fe the oldest church in the US, but the first church, built in about 1610, was destroyed and rebuilt at least twice.

 

[NotWise]

I posted this in the coffee house early in August because TxRad would have liked it. At the time there was no other appropriate place for it.

 

[lovecraft68]

That sounds somewhat judgemental

There are many parts of the country were soil conditions don't allow basements or aren't good for concrete slabs (which have their own problems).

I owned a home in an area with sandy soil and relatively high underground water table. Brick houses were build on concrete footers and looked like that pic. The house I owned would have been condemned before I bought it due to the routine standing water under it after every rain. But I fixed that by improving the drainage to rapidly removed that water via drain pipes under that footer.

If that house has been built on a slab, the concrete would have repeatedly cracked.

What's judgmental about saying someone lives in a trailer park? Many people across the country do.

But let's do this. I say trailer park, you saying I'm judging, that means in your mind you equate trailer parks with a negative connotation therefore you're projecting your own issues onto me.

Cool trick, no?

 

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[dirk2024]

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Mmmm...mommy's butter cream.

(too much?)

 

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[Smuttyandfun]

 

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[Smuttyandfun]

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Another handyman who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a hammer.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Another handyman who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a hammer.

No, no. Let’s not get in the way of Dr Darwin.

 

[NotWise]

I'm awed by the craftsmanship. Can you imagine how creative the wiring will be?

I mean, after he gets that sinking thing figured out.

 

[Lifestyle66]

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OMG!

I'm saving that for the neighborhood annual blood drive!

 

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[Erozetta]

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Reminds me of the time I came down to work for a "computer problem" my boss was having just to find she plugged the surge protector into itself instead of the wall.

I had to work so God damn hard to not make the "oh my god you fucking idiot" face. It was extra difficult because I'd been in bed when she called.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Reminds me of the time I came down to work for a "computer problem" my boss was having just to find she plugged the surge protector into itself instead of the wall.

I had to work so God damn hard to not make the "oh my god you fucking idiot" face. It was extra difficult because I'd been in bed when she called.

I once was called in to work on the weekend because there was a critical project that needed to be finished and a system had frozen, and even power-cycling it didn't work to get it going again.

One hour later, at the office, I power-cycled it and it came up just fine.

Then I explained to the person who had called me that the monitor on-off switch won't power-cycle the computer.

--Rocco