Site Visit 4: Terraced Wall Redesign

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2 days at work, 6 landscape Construction sites, 1 big problem plus an Abandoned House? vlog #0003

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At the fourth job site, the landscaper points out a poorly designed terraced retaining wall. He explains that such walls are often built to circumvent permit requirements for walls over four feet high. He proposes removing the entire terraced structure and replacing it with a single, properly engineered retaining wall on either side of the existing concrete stairs, tapering upwards and matching the slope to the fence line. This approach eliminates the need for multiple, smaller walls and ensures structural integrity, avoiding repeated failures.

Goal: Redesign a poorly constructed terraced retaining wall into a single, engineered wall for structural integrity and aesthetics.

Tools and materials

Concrete Stairs — Integral part of the existing structure to be incorporated into the new design
Terraced Retaining Wall — Part of the landscape to be removed and redesigned

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base. Tim's going to pop quiz me. So, this is our access, he says. Super awesome access, but we get skinny with trucks down here. Yeah, this isn't that bad except for this gate right here. Oh, we're coming around, okay. What do we Wall's failing. You want to quote We already decided against doing a double tier wall. It's not necessary here. She wants to be able to sell the property Okay. someday and not have this be an eyesore or go against trying to sell the house. Got it. What I recommended doing is taking away this wall. We're not going to reuse this stuff. Yeah. I'm not going to put my name on something that's going to fail again. No. It's the anchor interlock crap crap crap block. She wants to move. If we do build a wall, it's going to be right here and then go out. One wall can be 4 ft high and taper up when you start the slope at the fence. So, it doesn't need to be two walls. So, getting rid of this block Okay. and doing one wall either side of these stairs. Yep. And then I said, "Well, why do we even need a wall?" Cuz we could take We're going to take this dirt away. Look how they got the slope right along the stairs. Why don't we just match that, get rid of all of this? This slope he's talking about, right there. And put See this? You can just slope just have a slope. You could landscape it and it could look beautiful. It could look really nice. And here's the thing. You see why this is terraced? I'm going to quiz Tim now. I know why this is terraced. Why do you think this wall is terraced, Tim? Keeping it under 4 ft, don't have to pull a permit. That's it. And they wanted a level spot up top. That was it. That's what landscapers do. Instead of doing it right, making one wall, engineering it and pulling a permit, somebody came in and said, "Well, we'll make a double terraced wall." And you can see why they failed. They fail over and over again. Can't tell you how many of these we've done. They build these terraced walls and then they eventually fail because if they're going to cheat on the design, they're going to cheat on the construction. All right. Fourth or fifth site, I don't

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