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Sounds like frost heave

My suggestion is to fix your water issue, you need gutters when you live in frost country, they help alot, you do not want water around your building at all. That just makes for more expansion when freezing. I would also install drainage tile in the ground to direct ground water away from the cabin. After that, you will need to go under your cabin and install some adjustable jack posts either onto new poured footings or possibly onto the old ones if usuable. Adjustable posts, allow you to move your foundation is any heave does happen. Getting rid of the water flowing under the cabin will help a lot. Even footings dug deep enough can heave if the footing is bigger at the top. Frost closer to the surfaceis actually what lifts foundations out, as the frost starts there first. A big no no is having your cement foundation bigger at the surface, you want it biggest at the deepest part in the ground, so it cant be pulled out. If you have a cone shaped foundation with the biggest part of the cone near the surface, the frost will grab onto that like nothing and lift it up, when its lifted, soil falls under the foundation, and the foundation will never settle back in the same spot again. Thats why over the years it gets higher and higher. Good luck!

@@jacobificationable Yeah thats what I thought

I don't see any reason why you couldn't. You probably don't need that large of a diameter that he's putting in for just a deck, you probably could use more like the diameter size that he took out if you're just supporting a deck.

Absolutely

Depending on your project you also have the option to set your anchor bolts in to your wet concrete if you're able to do that I would think it would be easier than drilling.

Thankfully I have access to a skid loader with a 18" post auger. Definitely speeds up the process that way!!!

@@kellywhite9278 Anchor bolts? I think he meant how he drilled the holes in the ground.

The Sonotubes don't extend into the dirt very far. Pouring against undisturbed dirt is always best.

Not if you have to worry about frost/heaving. Don't cheap out, the tube helps keep the entire column above the 'bell' uniformly round and with a minimally 'grabby' surface for the earth to grab onto when freezing and potentially lifting it. The 'bell' helps of course, but you still want as smooth a surface on the column as possible.

you literally just need a footing able to hold the weight of the structure, you have no frost in Texas. lol

I'm in North East Texas, the ground is a mix of sand, iron ore rock, and clay. We have 100 year old cabins on our place that sit still sit on cement foundation blocks, just leveled on top of the ground, and the houses have not moved in 100+ yrs.

That's correct! Michael knows best! ;)

Ditto!

Hi Michael, your pedantic take on life is amusing, at best.

well done guys, how old were you when this video dropped?

There’s 3 of them, as long as 1 of them knows what they’re doing it’s OK. I don’t think the deck will fall down anytime soon.

Hi Daryl! We are in Southwest Minnesota. Frost depth of up to 4ft or so. Where are you from? Thanks for asking and I hope you'll subscribe if you haven't yet. Blessings, Ben

@@BenjaminSahlstrom Massachusetts, great work guys! I was just wondering

Concrete will still cure in water.

@@DeanCF1 ok thanks

use a very big hair dryer

Hi from So. Cal. One question... what is frost?

@@Carl-LaFong1618 So. Cal probably requires 6" wide flange I beams pounded 30' into the ground on 12" centers welded to 8" channel iron to make a 6' square deck for earth quake preparedness. I used to live in So. Cal. Was there for Whittier earth quake. Now I live where the frost is.

eventualentropy haha

We are from northern Minnesota. We are currently digging three post holes for a deck extension. 54 inches deep!

Haha of course!

That steel will work fine, it will rust out pretty quickly though. As long as the concrete is relatively smooth, it will help resist heave. That sono tube degrades and is gone after a year or so anyways. Aside from being pedantic, everyone slips and calls it cement on occasion, Sono tubes are meant as a temp help in keeping the concrete column uniformly smooth, why you think it will somehow help years later is crazy.

The petroleum in the Sonotubes remains and that is what helps woth frost heaving. Surprised most do not know such.

Sonotubes are made out of carboard and, of course, will rot. They are not intended to live the life of any project. Just to keep the concrete in shape until it cures. The wax inside is to keep the concrete wet while it cures. It has nothing to do with providing a slick medium to allow heaving earth to move independently of the concrete.

Right right. Glad you got that off your chest. :)

Do you recommend rebar cages?

@@carlosreyes6448 they are more expensive, but they work fine. You can just make your own cages instead. The important part Is keeping them up off the ground so they aren't exposed to corrosion.