| Jonny 2006-05-31, 10:21 pm |
| Awhile back a suggestion came from this group to use cinder block for a
skirt around the house. Just wondering if this is going to work for a skirt
around the house on piers. Ground surface is basically a tough variety of
limestone, little soil.
Fabricate a form using 2X4s between each pier. Piers are 10X10 inches.
Will be 7.5" wide form, or possibly the thickness of the piers (10"). First
row will be 2" 8X16 pavers. Remainder will be cinder block.
House bottom of subfloor is setting about 12" above ground on the north end,
and 2' to 3' on the south end. So, on the south end will use an open gap
between pavers for drainage.
The first two distances I checked between two different sets of piers in
76". Height is around 21" off the ground to bottom of siding. Siding is
hanging past the subfloor about 2". Figure it will bring the last cinder
block about an inch above the bottom of the siding. Doing one pier to pier
section at a time.
Questions.
See any problems thus far?
Can I use bar clamps to hold the 2X4s against the piers and just pour the
concrete form 10" wide? Of course I will use some fill before the concrete.
The bar clamps will eliminate so much cutting and so forth.
How do I figure the top height of the form to maintain level, thus even with
bottom of the house?
How about physical contact between the cinder block skirt and the hardiplank
siding, water runoff that is, no drip on bottom edge anymore? This a
potential problem?
Guess I'll just layer up some pavers on the north end of the house for the
skirt.
Oh, the reason for the cinder block is one of my dogs likes eating the
plastic lattice skirt now in place. The builder did not provide a skirt
with the house. So, threw that lattice up as temp measure to keep the dogs
out. Good in summer, bad in winter I've found per AC and heating. Yes, the
subfloor is insulated between the joists.
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Jonny
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