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Site Assessment and Excavation Planning

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It was a BAD TIME for this building inspector to show up.

What happens here

Conduct a thorough site assessment to understand the existing conditions, including the old timber retaining wall and the house's foundation. Note the presence of a sun porch and basement area. Crucially, determine if frost footings are present and their depth to avoid undermining the house's stability during excavation. Initial findings suggest the footings are deeper than anticipated, which is good news as it reduces the need for additional foundation work like helical piers. Plan to carefully excavate in layers, separating organic topsoil from structural fill, to preserve suitable backfill material and ensure the structural integrity of the site.

Goal: Understand site conditions, plan excavation, and confirm frost footing depth.

Tools and materials

  • Basement — Underground section of the house requiring frost protection
  • House Foundation — The existing structure that needs protection
  • Old Timber Retaining Wall — The structure being evaluated for replacement
  • Sun Porch — An attached structure with specific foundation needs

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got a rock here brought our equipment in here's our access this job's going to go through a whole lot of changes from the point we're going to look at it now to the point where it ends simply because we found that the house we're working on didn't have adequate frost protection to build what we initially wanted to do and we couldn't just jeopardize this structure so we had to modify our plants here's the old timber wall this thing's not looking so good anymore so we're replacing it with uh versa lock standards charcoal blend we're gonna do one single wall instead of two walls and uh and this wall over here is getting replaced just a little one i don't think we'll be able to save this tree though it's a little bit too close to the wall there's the basement let's see this basement and then the sun porch well if those are frost footings and we take this wall away the sun porch is going to sink and you can't uh can't repack that underneath there so we had goliath tech come out and check to uh put some helical piers in if needed but they found that the footing goes down quite a bit deeper than we all thought for this sun porch which is good news meaning they don't have to do helicopters so we'll see we're going to excavate slowly and make sure make sure they got footing where it's needed as we go down and um go from there hopefully all goes well find out soon enough

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