These are a few photos of the 28 piers that make up the foundation of our house and (Phase II) porch area. We used trash aluminum siding found on site. All of these holes are 4 to 5 feet deep, and about 12" across. They have rebar holding their shape open against the pressure of the sand on the outside and the 8 to 10 bags of concrete on the inside. Rebar is also pounded down a few inches into the clay at the bottom of the hole to serve as vertical support internally. Tim gets all the credit for these. He dug every huge hole, and cut all rebar because I tried to do it and found out I can't! But I did cut a lot of the siding, and helped Tim hold the "tube" in shape while he screwed them together. Cardboard tubes were about $10 each, so we did not spend about $300 while we made these. Yes, they are time consuming, but pretty cheap! Tim is very meticulous about things being even, level, perfect and a lot of other stuff I do not know about as a mere siding wench! I don't understand everything he has to do, but the end result will be a solid house that will be safe for us all, so it will all be worth it....
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