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Originally Posted by old fart
While you're at this stage get a mini digger in and dig a pit. I did, and can't think how I managed without one, now.
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It would have been easier to have not filled the ground in first! I've just raised the level by the best part of a meter.
My reason for not wanting a pit is partly for reasons of claustrophobia and the other for a design constraint for the workshop.
Where I am living is on the edge of an earthquake zone. "The Dutch" have been extracting a low calorific gas since the 1950s which apparently is causing shallow earthquakes. (This is a bit of a sore point in this region of the Netherlands and a bit like the should you smoke / should you not smoke argument there's a lot of "discussion" - better not to mention it really)
Anyway just in case, I've come up with a plan that is a non conventional structure that I can build by myself that also would enable me to jack things back into place in the event of something going wrong.
If I could have gotten a few ISO / shipping containers onto the site I would have probably have done something like that (all the rage at the moment - building things from shipping containers!) but that too would have meant shutting a fairly busy road and getting a mega crane to move them over houses (would cost very very very very silly silly silly money here)...
...so essentially I'm building a steel structure to replicate a shipping container on top of railway ballast and railway sleepers.
It will be a no concrete structure.