No work done on the house today
Mark Noyce saw the form, told John who told me, I talked to Mark and had him explain what he thought. He has built many houses in the neighborhood and all have cracked slabs to some degree. In order not have a badly cracked slab the county code calls for 6" of crushed gravel on top of soil compacted to 90%. The a sheet of visqueen/plastic as a moisture barrier to keep the xpansive soil (clay) from cracking the slab. On top of that 2-3 inches of sand. Also wetting it for several days is also supposed to be good.
Mark showed me how easily a spike goes into the ground in some areas which means it is not compacted. Mike is getting a quote from jackson on how much it will be to add the gravel and build per a "clay soil detail". Somehow these fucktards did not see that it was clay when it was fairly obvious to my untrained non-construction eye that there is clay. Somehow they did not bill for it so we are looking at potentially a fat chunk of money to get it done right versus getting the way they had planned which is not for expansive soil.
A way to fix the area without going down further Mark suggested is to add a 2x6 on top of the existing form perimeter which would allow for the 6" of crushed gravel. To boot, the steps into the living room could be reduced to 5" steps instead of 8" which would still give us 3 steps. This measn the plumbing drain boxes (x2) need to be raised in the proposed bathroom area. This would be by far the cheapest way to go, but then reduces our ceilingsfrom 9' 9" to 9' 3" or so... fuck.
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