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Address Site Challenges & Redesign

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Building a Cabin in the woods (Ep.1)

What happens here

During excavation, two significant issues arose: the initial driveway was too steep for winter conditions (requiring 4-low in a truck), and the septic drain field did not meet regulations. The septic field needed to be 20 feet away from the road, conflicting with the natural hillside supporting the house foundation. To resolve this without cutting down excess trees, a new plan was devised: the first drain line would run across the property, and the second line would be routed to avoid a tree. Additionally, the patio area would be extended by 4 feet, and a flat parking pad created at the base of the driveway for easier vehicle maneuverability during winter months. This decision was made to ensure safety and preserve the natural wooded environment.

Goal: Encountered and addressed several site-specific problems, including a steep driveway and a non-compliant septic drain field, requiring a redesign of the site layout to avoid unnecessary tree removal and ensure functionality.

Tools and materials

  • Excavator
  • Site Markers

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let's get back to this video all right so a big problem that we're having here is uh the inspector for the septic is not happy with the regulations that we got in place here we got our pad up here which is a great Pad but uh to bury our septic we needed to be at the bottom of this Hillside that's supporting the foundation of the house so we can't just bury it right in the hill here uh but that's not the big problem cuz the septic is going to go right over there uh we need to figure out our drain field and they are about like 55 56 ft long and there's two of them so the only options are cut down two more trees right here which that can get really expensive and you don't want to get rid of all the trees cuz you're in the woods and you need the trees that's why you want a cabin in the woods but that's not the only problem the other problem is how far off the road those drainage fields for the septic are going to run uh there's another road on the other side of the property it's surrounded by two roads and it has to be 20 ft away to start so we have our marking right over there that's our 20t so what the excavators and I kind of came up with a plan to avoid cutting down any trees is we're going to run our first line down here completely across and then we're going to try to skip over this tree they have to be a minimum of 6 ft away from each other cuz there's two lines but that's a minimum that means you can go further so the second one is going to go on the other side of this tree in fact closer to this brim here which will be perfect once all that's buried what I'm thinking is that in this little section right here with all the lines buried we're going to have another pad coming out here to put like a fire pit so the idea would be you got an A-frame coming out here beautiful view that's right behind me right there you're going to have grass ins the side here some steps coming through the middle of it to this little fire pit area that at night you get to overlook those mountains right there that's going to look incredible another problem that we're running into is this is where the pad is or the foundation is but the plans include another like four feet of p uh patio to come out so we realized we have to extend this pad a little bit further that's my line right there but we also have some walking room on top of it so you're just like falling down and rolling down the hill so a lot of variables a lot of unforeseen variables I think we're going to change some…

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