Mortgage soil sample

[pablo sánchez]

Hi Arbs,

I am going to see a client who is asking for a Soil Sample,

I keep asking him, what type of sample? and he says that it is for a mortgage.

It sounds to me like he is after a "Shrinkable Clay" percentage sample...

 

Have you done it before?

are there specifications on how to make this?

i am taking 350grs of a mix of samples , mixing it in a see through bag and sending it to the lab once i know a bit more detailed what exactly this sample is about?

 

Any suggestions?

 

thanks

[Stubby]

Hi Arbs,

I am going to see a client who is asking for a Soil Sample,

I keep asking him, what type of sample? and he says that it is for a mortgage.

It sounds to me like he is after a "Shrinkable Clay" percentage sample...

 

Have you done it before?

are there specifications on how to make this?

i am taking 350grs of a mix of samples , mixing it in a see through bag and sending it to the lab once i know a bit more detailed what exactly this sample is about?

 

Any suggestions?

 

thanks

 

Get some soil from the gardens at Buckingham Palace , see if he can afford that mortgage !

[Stubby]

Get some soil from the gardens at Buckingham Palace , see if he can afford that mortgage !

 

Sorry ......Childish

[Ian Flatters]

I forget the in's and out's but i remember Glynn Percival telling me and i wrote it down somewhere how to do soil samples with your own oven (of clay weight) and as for containment just drop it in a bucket of water to see and if yes send it off to the lab.

[Rich2484]

Pick it up look at it and after a lot of teeth sucking and head shaking you need to say "yep what you've got there is some dirt"

 

See stubby I can also be childish. Hahahahahaha.

[KLMLTD]

Hi Arbs,

I am going to see a client who is asking for a Soil Sample,

I keep asking him, what type of sample? and he says that it is for a mortgage.

It sounds to me like he is after a "Shrinkable Clay" percentage sample...

 

Have you done it before?

are there specifications on how to make this?

i am taking 350grs of a mix of samples , mixing it in a see through bag and sending it to the lab once i know a bit more detailed what exactly this sample is about?

 

Any suggestions?

 

thanks

 

If it's for a mortgage I suspect they'll want to know soil types beneath foundation level. They want to see how plastic the soil is (normally anything over 11% is shrinkable)

 

Been a while since I did Sub's work but testing soil samples can vary a lot every few feet.

 

We used to use a company called CET - they used to sink boare holes all round the property and test is at various depth until they got beneath the foundation level

 

HTH

[Lee Winger]

its called a plasticity test, why on ''earth'' don't customers get the right firms in with the correct experience to start with, there are loads of firms that undertake mortgage reports

[BTS]

you can send samples of to myerscough for a small fee and they send you the data back

[dervishcarving]

thats a strange one... what exactly are they lookign at at the lab? i work with soil-scientists all day hence the interest

[BTS]

as part course couple of years ago we did soil sampling and it had to be sent into myerscough to get the soil type etc looked at so we could write a report