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I live in a village called Kapu. This is a small and beautiful place where each house seems to
stand on it's own little hill like royalty. Our home is family house with a large enclosed garden
which is constrained with spruce hedge. My house was built in 1992 but it has been extensively
modernised and extended since then. Our house consists a lot of different elements and
components what I try to describe in my essay.
The most important part of construction is foundation because it keeps buildings in one piece.
My house has a strip foundation which is taken 1,5m below the ground to protect the structure
against ground movement and damages. Due to the fact that foundation transfer the dead and
imposed loads of the structure onto the ground it must be very solid and strong. Our foundation
is made of pre cast concrete blocks which has a damp-proof course made of mastics on external
side. ...