Hi everyone, new here, and though it's a bit presumptuous I had an idea the other day and thought this might be a good place to bounce it off people.
I've spent the past few months researching alternative building methods for a potential home project on a close friend's land, and for the past month have been more or less settled on the post/shoring/polyethylene method (possibly hybridized with some cobbing but that's another issue entirely).
The idea that struck me the other night, which I'm not sure is practical (hence the post) would be to use a biscuit joiner to connect the individual shoring planks. On the face of it it would seem to help strengthen the shoring wall, keeping an individual board from breaking. But I have two concerns that maybe more experienced builders might be able to address. First, would that actually strengthen the wall, or would the cut weaken it? I know the actual glue/biscuit are usually one of the strongest parts of the board when they dry, but that does not good if it weakens around where the hole was cut. Second, even if that isn't a problem, would this require boards to be thicker to cut the joints, potentially raising costs more than the corresponding gain in structural strength?
So I'd appreciate the opinions of people more experienced than myself.
