Furniss
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A good 8 years ago we did an underground/semi buried building into a hillside for a guy who wanted a hidden swimming pool pump room/tool shed - we did it to the customers design who is a civil engineer in the middle east. It went well albeit a lot of graft and expensive, footings,reinforced walls,block and beam ceiling and then a floor in.
We have been asked to be involved with another, different customer, and this time it would be a wine cellar, he has ideas for the build and they are the same type of construction to the previous one we did, I dont want to get involved with a similar build this time as we are too busy with the machine work nowadays but have said I will look at other options.
I am thinking of some sort of prefab concrete building, cheaper,faster and easier, no need for footing no need for a floor if it is a box (the dig which is already done by someone else) shows just compacted sand, so maybe some sectional solution that could be lifted into place with 8t machine,onto the levelled compacted base,drains around etc and backfill.
This potential project will have about 2M of ground cover on it.
Size would be iro 4mX5m
Has anyone had any experience with same sort of thing, any thoughts ?
Photo of the one we did long time ago is below and the dig of the 2nd one is above ... not much scale but back of dig about 4m + deep
We have been asked to be involved with another, different customer, and this time it would be a wine cellar, he has ideas for the build and they are the same type of construction to the previous one we did, I dont want to get involved with a similar build this time as we are too busy with the machine work nowadays but have said I will look at other options.
I am thinking of some sort of prefab concrete building, cheaper,faster and easier, no need for footing no need for a floor if it is a box (the dig which is already done by someone else) shows just compacted sand, so maybe some sectional solution that could be lifted into place with 8t machine,onto the levelled compacted base,drains around etc and backfill.
This potential project will have about 2M of ground cover on it.
Size would be iro 4mX5m
Has anyone had any experience with same sort of thing, any thoughts ?
Photo of the one we did long time ago is below and the dig of the 2nd one is above ... not much scale but back of dig about 4m + deep