Obsy on the run... down the hill :(

[Sp@ce_d]

I knew I should have poured more concrete...

I live up a hill. The garden is tiered & as traditional with Obsy's, I put my Obsy on my highest point of land. Unfortunately it now seems that piece of land is not as high or level as it was when I put the Obsy there some 3 or 4 years ago... It's subsiding!

I'd been told I'd gone for overkill (well, it did nearly kill my back) when I mixed & poured tons & tons & tons of concrete into the rectangular framework for the base for our 18' Greenhouse. On the other side of the Obsy site, the year before. So I decided to just dig out & sink concrete blocks (quite a few deep) for the supporting points of the floor joists for the Obsy. I'm now regretting this!

Last night the roof refused to open properly, ruining my last chances of finishing this seasons targets before the Moon & loss of astro darkness spoils the show... The roof is 4 x 5 metres..  my motor is rated at moving 1500kg. Looking at it in the light of day its pretty clear that the runner on one side is like a banana. It's been working fine up to a couple of days ago so I'm thinking the last 2 days of rain had finally done it's toll.  So I guess my job this summer is to try and jack the end up and underpin somehow.. or lower the supports for the run off & let it run down hill a bit. Anyhow.. that's this season well & truly over. So to all you new Obsy builders out there... heed the warning.. belt & braces.. overkill & over engineering is good... it's also another clear night tonight!

I knew I should have poured more concrete...

[Uplooker]

Oops. Really feel for you. I hope you get a suitable solution sorted

[Garethr]

Wow,

That's scary. Hope you can sort it keep us posted.

[JamesF]

That's a nightmare

The last few years have been very wet here and I've noticed that any moderately heavy "point" loads have sunk into the soil quite noticeably.  For instance, to try to keep the water clean and to stop them rotting I put our chicken drinkers on top of a 6" concrete block that sits on the ground.  Over the last couple of years those blocks have sunk almost half their height into the ground.

James

[Sp@ce_d]

That's a nightmare

The last few years have been very wet here and I've noticed that any moderately heavy "point" loads have sunk into the soil quite noticeably. For instance, to try to keep the water clean and to stop them rotting I put our chicken drinkers on top of a 6" concrete block that sits on the ground. Over the last couple of years those blocks have sunk almost half their height into the ground.

James

Yup, I think that's exactly what's happened here. We used to have "proper" cold winters. Now it's just wet & wetter still. I should have built an "ark" Obsy [emoji15]

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[Gina]

Oh dear   That's a sad state of affairs   Hope you can sort it out this summer (if we get one).  I too have sinking concrete blocks but fortunately the observatory is fine (so far) - well over-engineered