Lime-Cement Soil Stabilization in Construction - What is it?

Do you know how engineers deal with bad clay soil?
In this episode we will take a detailed look at the process of lime-cement soil stabilization, I will explain what is it and why it is used.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
1:32 - What soils can be treated with lime?
2:09 - What is lime and what does in soil?
3:38 - Cement introduction into lime, what is it for?
4:13 - Lime-Cement percent determination
4:47 - Lime application types
5:39 - Soil stabilization process
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[@SilentShiba]

Not a complaint in the keast, but the video footage and music were so stimulating that i got distracted from the information xD

[@Suavocado602]

Would this process be expensive for residential construction? I live in Houston Texas and we just spent $15k to fix our shifted foundation on our 1970s house. Would've been great to have this beforehand

[@quantumofconscience6538]

I doubt any home builder would consider this, or "treat the soil" before building. They simply dig down far enough and pour thick enough concrete where this becomes a very rare issue. Sorry it happened to you.

[@ingeniumbuild]

It is an expensive process in general. It works well on a large scale, for example - roadway construction. When you have a small individual multiple areas to work, it gets astronomical in price. The only time builders consider doing it is when they have no other choice due to extremely poor soil, however, in many cases it is cheaper to extract soil and replace it, rather than do lime. Extraction technique is widely used in Colorado, for example. The only time builders do lime for a house is when someone orders a custom house on private land.