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Why aren't stone foundations more common? There's lots of modern cutting methods and everything is done anyway with an excavator. Why is it always concrete? Con
by Gravityloss 6y ago
Why aren't stone foundations more common? There's lots of modern cutting methods and everything is done anyway with an excavator. Why is it always concrete? Concrete can't handle water.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoLabour. There's a reason CMUs are shaped like bricks. And concrete can handle water just fine if proper waterproofing and draining systems are included in construction.
- Gravityloss 6y ago> concrete can handle water just fine if... Concrete itself doesn't handle the water, it's being protected. With quite brittle technology. In the long term these kind of ifs don't tend to work. You want to minimize the number of ifs if you want to build something that stays put for a long time.