Nice clear explanation of the whys and hows. Thank you! Planning on doing a similar foundation in Scotland. Cheers
@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini9 ай бұрын
Awesome! Hope your foundation goes well and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions.
@permasystems Жыл бұрын
Great video! Looking forward to seeing the progress.
@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! There's a lot more to come that I'm very excited to share soon.
@mikewagenblast5454 Жыл бұрын
Good boots indeed. Great job in sight preparation and the environmental goings on within the site.
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@charlotteeolsen8397 Жыл бұрын
Oh you made a French drain
@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@yawjunior11 ай бұрын
hello! First thank you for this. I run into your video as I am educating myself on alternative foundations and just recently learned of the term rubble foundation. A few questions :)... Is the burrito part an additional piece that you added as a french drain (learning new things!), for extra security given it's a foundation for a home that may not be on the highest ground? Or is it an essential part of a rubble foundation in general? For example lets say you were building on high ground or making an exterior perimeter wall, would you have employed the burrito ? With buying things like landscape fabric, gravel, pipes, did you still find the cost of all those materials much less than if you had utilized a cement foundation in a similar configuration? Certainly much more eco friendly!
@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini11 ай бұрын
The "burrito" (and by that I mean a perforated 4" pipe surrounded by drain rock surrounded by a "burrito" of landscape fabric) is essential to a rubble trench foundation. The purpose of the landscape fabric "tortilla," if you will, is to filter the small clay and silt particles so they don't clog up your drain rock. A concrete foundation wouldn't provide the benefits in drainage and stability to our dry stacked stone stem wall we wanted, so we didn't bother comparing costs, we quickly decided we didn't want a concrete foundation.
@yawjunior11 ай бұрын
appreciate you@@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini
@kirkcoulter118011 ай бұрын
Any updates? Where are you at now? Interested in knowing if the plans for this were approved by the local athorities. Most are not hip to this type of construction.
@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini11 ай бұрын
Updates coming soon! Thankfully, we are outside of the city limits, so no permits required.
@danknugz76058 ай бұрын
You should not have used woven geotextile in your burrito. You should have used non woven for more water flow. Youre not going to allow enough water to pass through your system with woven.
@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the input. Seems like woven is working out for us after 3 years. Every time we have a big storm, our outlet pipe is flowing like a fire hose.
@trevorvanzuydam8115 Жыл бұрын
Would the plastic not act like a pipe anyway, making the actual pipe unnecessary?
@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini Жыл бұрын
The only plastic in the rubble trench IS the pipe. The landscape fabric is porous to water, but keeps the dirt out of the rubble trench.
@trevorvanzuydam8115 Жыл бұрын
@@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini I see now , thank you!
@andrewsackville-west160911 ай бұрын
Im jealous you can get away with a rubble foundation. In my area, you can't get anyone to sign iff on it, anymore, due to seismic requirements
@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini11 ай бұрын
Rubble trenches are pretty resilient when it comes to earthquakes, as they're somewhat self-healing when combined with a dry-stacked stone stem wall. When the small gravel hearting is really packed into the joints of the wall, it can shift into an even more stable configuration after a seismic event. The problem comes when you try to put a concrete grade beam (which is definitely not self-healing) on a rubble trench.
@andrewsackville-west160911 ай бұрын
@@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini right. The problem is permitting a structure... finding an engineer to stamp a rubble trench or a building department to approve one without an engineers stamp is basically impossible, where I am.
@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini11 ай бұрын
@@andrewsackville-west1609 Hopefully some municipalities will come around to rubble trench foundations. They've got a very long track record, (much longer than concrete!) but they're definitely not in the mainstream right now. Good luck with permitting!
@michaellinnebur76948 ай бұрын
Wait just a minute.you did this in the most free country in the world.the one were you need a permit a architect drawings etc.
@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini8 ай бұрын
We're lucky to live in a rural area where no permits are necessary.