Choosing the foundation for your home, you shouldtake into account the characteristics of the area on which it will stand. First of all, you need to contact the local geodetic service. In it you can be enlightened about the soils on which you will build a cottage. The fact is that the abyssal soils are capable of causing a lot of trouble, and the nearby groundwater will not lead to anything good.
However, when building a frame cottage, you candispense with the simplest light foundations. For example, light columnar bases are ideally suited in this case. But if you plan to build something more serious, you can not do without a quality foundation. For example, for a quality log or brick house, the foundation stone is just right.
Piles for it can be made of metal,concrete or a combined method. They differ not only in their weight, size and shape, but also in their mounting methods. In the simplest form, you can generally use specially prepared logs.
The only problem is that over time the treeinevitably loses its operational qualities, which can lead to cracks not only of the foundation, but also of the supporting walls. That is why the pile-foundation foundation (the price of which in this case is quite high) is best done on the basis of reinforced concrete structures.
Depending on the required weight distributionat home, the piles can be arranged evenly (along the perimeter of the base of the house) and in a "bush" way, supporting the most dangerous areas. Grillage is good because it allows even on unstable soils to make a monolithic foundation pillow. Piles can be completely planted in the ground, you can leave their tops on the surface of the soil, and you can significantly take them out of the soil. In any case, the grill foundation will reliably cope with its task.
In this case, you can apply bored piles.The pipe is clogged with a sufficient diameter, into which a little concrete is poured. After the first batch has hardened, it is removed and a new portion is poured. But the easiest way is to perform the grill foundation using screw piles. Due to the fact that they are made of high-quality metal, screwing them into the ground is not too difficult.