Texas cellar question

TX-Badger · Jan 29, 2013

reverseapachemaster said: ↑

Around here in the DFW area the ground is full of clay. It's very hard to dig into and the ground shifts very easily both when it rains a lot and when it doesn't. During the summer we have to water the foundation to keep the soil up against the foundation. If you don't do that then the foundation can shift and cause cracks in the dry wall and structural problems. I once went into a house that was so bad you could feel the foundation shift under your feet as you walked. It's not ideal ground for digging into and trying to build a permanent structure. That doesn't make it impossible, just expensive.

Land is cheap in Texas compared to other states. It's cheaper to build a larger house than it is to dig into the ground to put in a basement. Every once in a while you do find a house with a basement though.
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Yeah, being from Wisconsin, it took some getting used to that pretty much no homes down here have basements......weird.....

ThirdEyePA · Jan 29, 2013

lokieman said: ↑

In high school I worked on a ranch outside of Georgetown and spent many days manually digging post holes. Never more than a few minutes before we had the digging bar out trying to smash through layers of rock...fuck I hated that job.
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Yea man, my uncle lived in Georgetown and digging anything out there was brutal. It's the same way in Coryell county. We had a deer lease out there and built fences around 3 corn feeders and 2 protein feeders and I don't think I ever worked that hard in my life. And I used to do landscaping before that.

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