Strengthening the foundation: basic methods

The durability and performance characteristics of any residential buildings largely depend on the condition of their foundation - the platform on which the entire structure is based. This support element is the most important part of the structure, since it perceives the entire load from the higher standing elements. Therefore, strengthening the foundation is of prime importance for ensuring the reliable and safe operation of any building.

The purpose of the foundation and its structural features make this key element of the building the most difficult to model and predict its functionality in the process of construction and operation. The fact is that this main carrier is constantly under the simultaneous impact of many different, often difficult to take into account factors. The most significant of them - a change in the properties of the base, a variety of natural phenomena and all kinds of economic activities rights.

In this aspect, it is especially important to strengthen the foundation of a private house, since such buildings are, as a rule, most susceptible to changes in the properties and characteristics of the soil due to the negative impact of groundwater. In addition, the environment and various natural phenomena exert an unusually strong influence on the foundations of private country houses.

Strengthening the foundation of the house is done in many different ways. Such a variety of methods and techniques is due to the regular appearance on the market of building materials of the latest technologies and more advanced construction techniques. For all the novelties to follow is simply unrealistic. Therefore, as practice shows, most people, beginning to strengthen the foundation of their home, prefer proven and reliable methods.

More often than not, the foundation of a private house is strengthened by a classical method, the essence of which is to lay a new, so to speak, additional foundation around the house. In other words, an auxiliary support is created with several base fixation points for the entire structure of the building. The number of these points depends on the degree of destruction (deterioration) of the main foundation and the size of the structure. Strengthening the foundation in such a relatively simple way is very popular due to its cheapness and reliability.

Another method of demanding the strength and reliability of the building construction is the method of drilling pile piles. Strengthening the foundation in this way is now almost the most modern approach to solving this problem. Since the technique of drilling pile piles involves the use of innovative building technologies and new materials, this pleasure is not cheap, but the result exceeds all expectations.

Here it is hardly possible to do without specialists and complex construction equipment. The essence of technology is as follows. In the existing foundation on two or four sides, again, depending on the individual characteristics of the house and its foundation, an inclined well with a diameter ranging from 15 to 25 cm is punched. High-strength concrete or cement is poured into the holes, then a reinforcing cage of high-quality Structural steel. As a result, after the solution dries out, a completely new foundation is obtained with a large number of reinforced concrete pile structures, on which the whole building is based. The depth of drilling of such inclined wells depends entirely on the qualities and characteristics of the soil. Often, the holes break through until the drill meets a very hard rock. Such a foundation resembles a rock monolith with its reliability, durability and durability.