Implement Water Management and Calculate Cost Savings

you're going to hopefully see today we don't necessarily have to put this retaining wall back in place in this particular case if we reestablish the slope then what we do down here is we create a Swale a gentle sale not a ditch not an ankle twister but just the gentle swell and we funnel the water down to the street behind you so that the water doesn't come on to this guy's property this guy isn't flooding them out and talk about a cost savings we're talking about a difference of going from about a 17,000 $18,000 retaining wall repair and replacement to about a 10 no actually it's $1,900 is what I've calculated removing this wall creating the Swale removing the concrete going in in between the two garages creating a Swale in there and funneling it all down to the street we're talking about a $5,000 savings on this project Alone by thinking outside of the box and coming up with alternate means to make to create solutions for both of these homeowners I want you to also look the lack of gutters is going to shed this water right here the water's going to fall and a heavy rain it's going to Arch off from the top and land right here it's clear as about on a light rain the water's going to fall down back over here here and then go right to the retaining wall okay what's going to happen is you've got the weight of the structure plus hydrostatic pressure plus all the way of that water in these events that occur maybe once twice a week or whenever they happen hitting this wall which is going to lead to its premature failure look at this site one more time as we go down the wall is fine it's stable the weight of the garage isn't on the wall on the end of it and as we go down the other way and pan and look you can see that this wall has failed all through here because it's connected this is the big portion of it it's kind of like the domino effect the wall starts to fall and it takes more with it but then it separates it can stand there's no water no hydrostatic pressure coming off from a garage structure over here so it can withstand and it's able to maintain itself on its own so if I was going to give my professional opinion on what happened on a site like this it was clear that the retaining wall was in place this home was built then somebody came in put this Garage on top of an existing retaining wall which was not designed to have a search charge placed on it and then on top of that they allowed all the roof water from the garage to fall down and hit directly…