Retaining Wall Repair part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Retaining wall repair is finished up. We ran into rock and boulders on the last two footings. I had to rent a jack hammer for my Bobcat T66. Hammering the rock turned out being quite the task.
Here's a link to part 1 if you missed it
• Retaining Wall Repair
We How we repaired this failing retaining wall. This CMU cinder block wall starting leaning 1 year after being built. There was also a few cracks forming in the wall. Our engineer's came up with a plan to save the wall instead of taking the whole thing down and building a new wall. We built 9 concrete pillars on spread footings in front of the wall.
You mad lads have a good line of communication with engineers, that is critical for fabricators tradesmen and contractors. I like the solution they came up with because it uses the whoopsie holes to get the gravel out. They even figured for how far out from support the new concrete fill goes. A good team talks it out and draws new plan together as one. The fire lane paint is straight as an arrow, very nice work all around
Good stuff, looking forward to the paver videos.
Better than “tearing all this down”.
(previous video)
Verti block, best block around and the easiest to work with.
Wow... I came here from part 1.... Now we know why the first guys cheated on the footing.
Thank you for making this video. But I fail to see how the columns as they are spaced will prevent the wall from bowing in the center of each section.
you edited out all the good stuff
Was the first guy sued ?
Now you see why 1st guys stopped digging
Yup
That's not going anywhere! (Hopefully)
3:34
What does stupid always seem to show itself, even in the most simple process?
It is always better to strengthen a retaining wall from the high side, dig or drill the fill and pour piles or columns. That way you don't take up space and don't change the front of the wall
Sadly, those are the kind of columns that should have been incorporated into the wall to begin with. It may have seemed like overkill at the time, but in hindsight it isn't. When you engineer a retaining wall like this you can't just compensate for the weight load on the wall. You have to over-compensate. You have to factor in the most extreme weather patterns ever experienced in that area, the most ridiculous load that somebody might park on the upper level, because it was raining too hard to keep driving...like the 200 ton crane that got parked in a pouring rain, after several days of pouring rain, on a project I was working on. When we came in the morning the crane was on its side because a wall very similar to this one had collapsed during the night. That one got ugly....
You and your crew did exactly what was asked of you and that is honorable.