I need to add on to my current home which is a large double wide which is solidly attached to
concrete footers via steel pipe. It doesn't settle.
My first question would be : are there any woes with building off of a
wood structure using earth bags?
I also have an odd chunk of
land with ground
water at around 5 foot. I have juts over a foot of top soil, below that is sand and river rock. I'm fairly close to a flood area. I am not exactly sure how deep bedrock would be found.
I'm planing to build up a foot with bags then back fill and either lay a stone floor or possibly a compacted soil cement floor. It will be a heated floor. Then I would continue up with bags as walls. I do also have tires. A lot of them. But sand bags are so much easier to work with.
The room will be around 12'-18' x 60' with square corners if possible. The south wall would be 60', east and west walls 11' tall 12'-18' long with bags. The north wall is the existing house. There would be 2 bedrooms then the rest open as a living room area.
The roof will be steel framed with red iron. Sloped shed design with Metal roofing.
I would be replacing the skirting of the house with an earth bag pup wall. All concrete stucco.
Would I be wasting my time attempting this. I've built standard wood framed houses. This would be new territory for me. I'm more worried about integrating both building designs together without a lot of problems. This entire plan is due to the cost of building supplies. I have to build on in order to make more room for my kiddos.
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