This is the best guide on how to build your foundation of a house on black cotton soil.Building a house in black soil is challenging because of the nature of black cotton soil.It expands with wet and contracts when dry.This behavior affects the foundation wall and ground floor slab,causing them to have crack,affecting your dream house.The solution to mitigate this soil expansion and shrinkage is to introduce reinforcement steel in the ground floor slab and put ground beams instead of masonry wall,building the ground slab 0f the house with wire mesh of appropriate of A142 and slab thickness of 150mm.

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