Building A Small Cabin On Piers

It was built on concrete piers but the building shifted over the years and the floor was not level.

Building a small cabin on piers.

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Each was crudely built likely by the home owner using no mortar and many rough jagged pieces of granite which are commonly found laying on the ground here east of the appalachian mountains. This building was drafty and a cold air layer at the floor. As you can see this log cabin is perched on rock piers irregular columns of stone placed in each corner. I m building a small log cabin about 14 x 20 or 24 on a remote site where i ll be pouring sonotube piers below the frost line.