#9 Insights
Nobody photographs blinding, cover blocks or a curing sheet. They are still the three things most likely to decide whether a foundation reaches thirty years.
Three foundation types cover most of what we build. Choosing between them is a soil question and a load question, not a budget question.
A trial pit costs less than a day of plant hire. Skipping it is the most expensive decision on most Ugandan and South Sudanese sites.
Black cotton soil swells through the wet season and shrinks back in the dry. A foundation that ignores that movement will crack within two years. Here is how we design around it.
