Deck Inspection Brings Our Job to a DEAD stop.

[Music] i gotta do some figuring before i say yes or no on this one no everything's marked for us the gas electric's up there water's up there so that's good yeah [Music] this one [Music] of course you guys are going to be all done when this is starting to happen here i just have to smack that out and the beauty is it doesn't need to be a gigantic hole you know you got a lot of weight up there too yeah i got a bunch of planters full of dirt [Music] i gotta do some figuring before i say yes or no on this one kim should say that about some of the jobs that we get yeah like that tree stump like that tree stuff yeah that's it yeah oh man the new homeowner i mean are they new here newer yeah at this place yeah newer yeah i think it was what you said like four yeah within the last five years yeah last four or five years i think well that would be nice and we could bring our wall yeah we shift her out just like you have to cut that thing right off but it might be a couple weeks so we'll just build it back a little bit and it'll be fine because we're stepping up so what's going on is before we can even begin to build our retaining wall we need to have the deck inspected and a structural plan put together on how that deck is going to be rebuilt you see if you look closely down it you may not see it in the video but the deck has a slight belly to it but you can very specifically see that the posts holding up the ends are rotted out now the post closest to the house is actually double supported but the post at the end of the deck is not and so before we get going any further we need to know that game plan so that's why we have him out to assess the structural damage and let us know what the plan for reconstruction is so everything is at a dead stop until we get that information now it's going to hit your wall too isn't it [Applause] [Music] do [Music] now we're not going to rebuild that deck for a very specific reason because my understanding of code is any structure in minnesota that is technically connected to a house requires frost footings and when i look at those footings i can't confirm whether those are to frost depth or surface footings and i don't want anything to do with that and i yeah i basically don't want anything to do with that yeah i don't know what else to say about it sometimes you take the work sometimes you just better off walking away okay so when we first started this and was getting it all planned out and whatnot uh we had to miss the footings for the posts right so with where we had to start the wall we're gonna have this little bit of a gap here and then you know with how the courses step back it'd be a little bit bigger of a gap up here so we got two by ten that stick up against the foundation to kind of fill in that gap and then the wall is going to hide it so you won't be seeing that sticking out or anything we got a l bracket good old top comms and then just some wood screws for the board and we'll get that up in there and get it all locked in all nice and tight that problem will be solved [Music] perfect that should work let's see if they fit through there now yep all right we are cooking with gays [Applause] [Music] so this is what's called a gravity wall and this is a wall that's under four foot tall that has good backfill conditions and no surcharge and what surcharge means is there's no load placed on the back side of the wall and a load does not necessarily just mean a structure behind the wall it could also mean a hill behind the wall now in this case this is a shorter wall and then the slope of the wall will actually be angling away from the retaining wall so this is a perfect example of where and when you can build a gravity retaining wall and you can get away without geogrid or engineering now this wall was over four foot tall had a surcharge placed on it that's be a load from a structure or a hill or even temporary surcharges here's where you got to be cautious if i was building a parking spot and the retaining wall was going to hold up a parking pad the weight the temporary weight of that car behind the retaining wall creates a surcharge and then therefore that wall regardless of what height it would be would then require engineering but these little tiny baby walls are just a beauty to build simple fast and easy [Music] [Applause] damn son if i hadn't met your wife i would have assumed you would be single with how fast you were swinging that thing so [Music] the gravel back there yeah [Music] i think i'd be able to kind of pack that better i think [Music] i got that pretty goobered up so i got i got most of the tube in there drive all over in the snow yeah cool part was i i got to be the driver it seemed like nobody else had been accompanying their white keys that's funny how that works so on the next video we get the retaining wall wrapped up we start to build those berms and we go over some details on berm construction that not many people know about and we have some technical difficulties on the job that we weren't anticipating because why not every single day is a brand new surprise that's all i got for you on this one god bless you guys go get em and we'll see on the next one