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To: Thermalseeker

What about using sthe pray-on coating used to preserve aircraft in storage? That may work a one of the barriers. Regardless, in my plan, the container does not come in contact with the soil. Once on the foundation, a wall of cinderblocks is built around the cluster and earth is then filled-in against the outer cinderblock wall. I am working on what to use to cover the top of the cluster.


18 posted on 12/09/2008 9:47:28 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
What about using sthe pray-on coating used to preserve aircraft in storage?

Either that, or maybe the white shrink wrap they put on high end boats and cars for transport. That stuff is really tough.

I think most important, though, is a good drain to allow the water to go somewhere besides into the structure. It's tough to make a below ground structure completely waterproof. My current home has a basement blasted into solid rock from 2' below the surface to the bottom of the footers. Before I built the house over the hole I had blasted I noticed that the water runs across the rock shelves and pours directly into the hole. I realized fairly quickly that a good drain would be essential to a dry basement. I put in extra large French drains and a lot of gravel to make sure the water had somewhere to go. Lots of fiber reinforced tar on the walls and then two sheets of plastic. I backfilled with chert, which is basically clay with some gravel in it, then compacted it using a plate compactor. I brought the fill up about a foot at a time, then compacted. The result is a bone dry basement, even in the wettest weather. It's still dry even now some 14 years later.

19 posted on 12/09/2008 10:06:56 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly. - B. Franklin)
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To: Army Air Corps
I am working on what to use to cover the top of the cluster.

Look into a roofing product called "Sarnafil". It's a membrane roofing material that is used on commercial buildings. They roll it on and seal the seams with heat. I have this material on a commercial rental property I own in Florida and it's worked very well, even through huricane Ivan. My building took the right front eyewall and came away leak free.

20 posted on 12/09/2008 10:10:35 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly. - B. Franklin)
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