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Removed the supports and the end plugs, tidied up around and then dug the trench wider.
Some simple grading with a few buckets sand and the first skirt insulation panels are in. Once these are closed all around the house, we have upgraded our naked stone foundation to an insulated frost-protected shallow foundation.
This carves out a huge slab of terrain under the house and adds it as thermal mass to the house. A temperature gradient will develop in the soil below the skirt and a small amount of heat loss will keep the soil underneath from freezing.
A huge upgrade for an old house compared to a naked stone foundation exposed to -30°C air in winter. The soil stays relatively warm by comparison.