I should also mention, that for 15 of the 20 years, this place had no heat, water, septic, it was just used as a hunting cabin. I have improved it over the past 5 years to be a 3 bedroom house. So heat from the crawlspace preventing freezing was not a thing.
This "foundation" has been sitting at grade. It's been like this for 20 years. I did not build this.
This is in northern Vermont, so the weather is fairly extreme.
There is about 3-4 inches of gravel under the concrete "footing", then anywhere from 2 feet to 6 inches of soil before hitting...
