Hello dear friend, today I will tell you about an incident that happened in my garage cooperative.
An error that was made during construction, as well as during operation, led to large material losses. The workshop was destroyed. I believe that the information that will be presented below. Will warn future and current self-builders from fatal mistakes. And trouble will not come to their home. Learning from the mistakes of others.
At least something useful to extract from this trouble for the readers.
Let's start our review of the garage ruins from the side that is "more or less" preserved. The garage is large, for two cars, the height of a Gazelle. Has through gates on two sides.
There is such a gap between the "tired" building and the neighboring garage.
For a better understanding of what happened, I move to the right:
We see that part of the wall decided to separate from the building.
This wall swam in such a way that the lower part came off. From this side, the scale of the sad consequences is not so visible.
Moving on to the most epic side, the gate.
The most severe destruction occurred on this side. Scroll through the gallery (swipe to the right).
According to which I am operating, the fatal errors that led to the destruction of steel:
- Unreliable soil. The garage cooperative stands on an old dumped dump, the soil is sandy, for this reason it is difficult for us to build cellars and pits (crumbling).
- Lack of a "normal" foundation as such.
- This building has a third owner, everyone contributed to its completion.
In the gallery, scrolling through, you can see the main cause of the destruction. Scroll to the right.
The most critical error:
When trying to insulate the "foundation", before the winter period, there was dug up perimeter to the depth of the building material, in this case not concrete, but some kind of blocks. The ground was immediately removed from three sides. Over time, from the bursting loads, the "strip foundation floated". Behind him are the walls ...
Conclusion: Do not touch the foundation if it is weak and not built according to technology. Don't dig it around the entire perimeter, even if you want to. And carry out operations on insulation or waterproofing at least one by one, each wall.
I wish the owner of the garage endurance and strength to rebuild his wet nurse, but in the mind.