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My understanding is that all houses in Netherlands are like that.


Call me crazy but wouldn't it be one heck of a lot cheaper to just raise the houses ONCE then leave them raised? (like they've been doing with beach houses for 100+ years now)
 

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Call me crazy but wouldn't it be one heck of a lot cheaper to just raise the houses ONCE then leave them raised? (like they've been doing with beach houses for 100+ years now)

1/3 of Netherlands is below sea level so unless they transport shit ton of dirt from elsewhere, I don't see that making sense.

I guess it's only the houses below sea level are built that way?
 

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1/3 of Netherlands is below sea level so unless they transport shit ton of dirt from elsewhere, I don't see that making sense.


Why would they need a ton of dirt? (might have to import a bunch of lumber maybe)

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People have been building/modifying beach houses this way as I said for a LONG time and jacking a house up once then setting it on posts of some kind HAS to be cheaper then a mechanism that jacks up the entire structure including the foundation "on demand" lol. (half-a$$ed ideas like this are why we don't just give engineer's free rein and NEED bean-counters too)

(above examples are among thousands of pics from 1 search)
 
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Why would they need a ton of dirt? (might have to import a bunch of lumber maybe)

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People have been building beach houses this way as I said for a LONG time and jacking a house up once then setting it on posts of some kind HAS to be cheaper then a mechanism that jacks up the entire structure including the foundation lol.

(above examples are among thousands of pics from 1 search)

they built a concrete boat lined with styrofoam. not all that different from regular foundation. Plumbing and electric hookup are the tricky parts.
 

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they built a concrete boat lined with styrofoam. not all that different from regular foundation. Plumbing and electric hookup are the tricky parts.


That part is pretty cool actually ... similar to the science of "floating" building foundations on liquified dirt during seismic events.

Again however it's a "neato" idea but not practical in the real world where cool tech things have price-tags attached. (possible exception in the area of new structures on "fresh" build-sites)