The geotech engineer said we had to make a series of changes. Especially disappointing was the loss of a lovely maple that would have stood right next of the house. You can see the change in this side-by-side comparison (the maple is just to the left of the dirt pile:
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| From Foundation digging |
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| From The Wall |
The main changes. though, were that we had to put up a big concrete retaining wall on the uphill sides of the house, and we had to dig out the bad soil, which meant going well below the intended ground level for the house in some places:
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| From The Wall |
This involved major changes to the ground plan for the South side of the house (the left of the above picture). We had been planning a set of rockeries to pull the ground away from the basement on that side, where there will be a door and a rec room window, but that's not going to be possible now. Instead, this may be the view out the rec room window:
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| From The Wall |
ETA: Sorry for the broken links; they've now been fixed.
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