[Greenbuilding] Earth-berming an existing home

Nick Pyner npyner at tig.com.au
Thu Aug 11 00:06:32 CDT 2011


Seems that what you are looking at is the sudden conversion of a brick wall
that was never intended to be a retaining wall - into a retaining wall. This
cannot be a good idea, quite apart from the waterproofing considerations. I
guess a solution is to build a flashed retaining wall hard up against the
existing brick. Once done you may find there is no need to bother with the
earthworks, the new wall does the job by itself.


Nick Pyner

Dee Why   NSW

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Leslie Moyer
Sent: Thursday, 11 August 2011 2:37 PM
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Subject: [Greenbuilding] Earth-berming an existing home


Can anyone point me to some information on what would be involved in berming
an existing above-grade home?  We have a typical 70's era brick ranch home.
About half of the home has high windows and I'm wondering if it would be
possible to haul dirt in and berm up around the sides.  But of course, it
wasn't originally built for that.  So I'm wondering what might be involved
and what considerations should we take into account?  It's built on a
masonry block stem wall with a crawl space that is ventilated right now.

Leslie Moyer
unschooler at lrec.org
www.ShadyGroveNaturalFarm.com




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