
Cedar post foundation experiment
A friend of mine gracefully brought to my attention the fact that I was
ignoring the 6 inch freeze zone when I was laying the
ground work for our new building project.
I decided to experiment with some posts from the large cedar tree I cut
down last month. It's easier for an amateur like me to use this method
compared to leveling out the cinder blocks.
This post is part of our Building a Storage Building from Scratch
series.
Read all of the entries: Part 1: Foundation
Part 3: Walls and scavenging lumber
Part 5: The roof
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Six inch freeze zone?
Last time I built anything up that way the freeze zone was eighteen inches, and I remember one winter when it froze below that.