01-19-2010, 06:02 AM
If longevity and quality of construction were your defining concerns you would have a very robust slab to tie everything together. After that, if you wanted the benefits of pier and beam with an elevated floor, you would build it on top of this slab. What I am hearing is a lot of people talking like these are mutually exclusive or maybe there is some special reason why people don't do both. There is - cost. People are presenting technical reasons in favor of pier and beam and perhaps without realizing it are implying that these are reasons against a slab. In fact they are independent issues.