The house next door...or how to NOT build a house

[jdurand]

Remember they were supposed to have drilled and cast piles to hold the hill back? Well, since they removed the dirt the piles were to be drilled through, why not just put them where they would have gone...sort of. Plumb is not something they understand.



At this point the inspector came by, had a cow, fit, and several other bouts of attacks and put a STOP order on the job.

A few days later an engineering firm truck showed up, the contractor showed him around, lots of pointing and measuring. They need to add in some sort of wall that makes the engineer happy.

Columns peeled, more digging.



They then cut off one column and left it where it fell behind the others. They cast two more columns and then drilled, and added rebar between columns.



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