Fhemmmy: Keep teaching us jare . . .

mufutau55:

Do I love to learn or what! Look at the explanations of Spyder880 and Diordaves in the previous page.. and you will see one of the advantages of being on this forum. Learning! Learning!! and Learning!!!

Hajji Mufutau

Fhemmmy:

Honestly, no amount of classroom could have thought me all i have learnt on these threads

kopell: Yes man love to ask questions, professionals in the house will take their time to explain. I'm loving it.

segcy.moor:
Spyder man. It seem u are very busy here and there. My advise for u is to engage as many IT students as possible: they will appreciate to learn and earn token for that.

mufutau55:

Before I joined Property Forum and all the excellent professional thread.. You know I never know the differences in the soil usage.. but now I am learning so much.. I am appreciating all the professionals with experience that we have here..
Some teachers/professionals/peoples just rely on their college with books.. no practical experience.. This is work...
So, I am taking this time to thank all the professionals with pratical expriences that are teaching us (the novices) here everyday..

Hajji Mufutau

spyder880:


Thank you Diordaves for those valid points but I think we are talking about two different situations here. The question I answered was whether sharp sand is a more suitable material for back-filling a foundation, of which I gave a positive answer.

What I think you are describing is whether sharp sand is a better soil for the load bearing of a house, of which you rightly pointed out that it is not. Refer to the first few pictures of this foundation and see that the topography of this site, and most of Enugu town is sitting on a rocky crust, not sharp sand.

Now lets talk about the shifting qualities of sharp sand, only sharp sand on the surface can shift, like the beach you cannot exert a vertical pressure on sharp sand contained inside a foundation. The sharp sand, when poured into a foundation, held in place by the foundation walls cannot compress any further, the trick is the coarseness. Water, or other weather agents like air cannot affect the sharp sand inside a foundation. Sharp sand is permeable to air and water but hardly compresses downwards.

We have done so many experiments on this before, but I want you to try it,fill a metal bucket, or a soak away pit for instance with sharp sand, now pour enough quantities of water into it and try to make it compress,you will notice that the level will always remain the same.
Try it in a foundation also, sharp sand does not have any vertical compression qualities because it is coarse. Other soil types are elastic, and so can settle deeper with the movement of water. Thank you Sir.

spyder880: Work has been very impressive here in this site, all the filling work is done and compacting/watering the foundation for possible sinking is ongoing. Not much sinking just as I expected because of the sharp sand.

We got so many trips of sand delivered into this site today, stones coming in tomorrow morning, casting of this DPC might happen as from tomorrow or next, more pictures later.

ifebosco: spyder
send me your email, i have some private questions for you,thanks and keep up your good work

Fhemmmy: Eyes are itchy

Fhemmmy: Waoh , , ,

dannydolly: This is education at its best. Spydo, keep up the great work. Building made easy.

@Spyder, please don't forget to update the cost aspect when the casting is done I'm really interested in knowing this.

segcy.moor:
In the first I nd to apologize for all students of spyder because I know u hate it when we spoke against ur Prof. Anyway I must commend him for doing well but I nd to point this out ur iron Bender for this project deserve quarry .....d starter bar is too short. I stand to be corrected