Yesterday I mentioned that preparing the foundation takes time. In this article, you’ll find explanations of what you absolutely must do to ensure a perfect foundation.
As you can see from the red arrows, the uneven ground is prepared with concrete before the stone retaining walls are built. In practice, good soil, even if it's rock, consists of rock with many cavities of varying sizes. We fill them in (and we're the only ones on tulum) to ensure a stable and perfectly reliable foundation.
And as you can see from the video, we spend a lot of time and concrete......
In the next two photos, you can see the floor before and after to understand what's been done.
In this picture, you can see the two cavities initially filled with soil that have now been cleaned out. This creates a void that needs to be filled to ensure the strength and stability of the foundations. In practice, we're the only ones to do this. The custom in Tulum is to leave the earth in place and build the foundation walls directly on top of it. The following photo shows the final result before the base wall is built. So it takes more time and more concrete, but it's square, and as you can see, it won't cost you any more.
