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This needs more than dirt. You need a geologist and engineer. Depending on the makeup of the land, you may need pilings driven into the bedrock and geogrid for the retention walls and plant life for soil retention. Otherwise one really good rain season and you're right back to were you started because you put a bandaid on a severed artery.
I wouldn’t expect anything less building a house on a sand pile
I’ve been a structural engineer for a roads and storm water company for the last 8 years and I cannot believe you tipped some sand over the slope and said “we’ve done some good work”
I’m a structural engineer and I promise you if we come back in 2 years….we will see the same equipment only demolishing the ruins into dumpsters, not sure how this was permitted or insured!
As a concrete worker and engineer with a few years on the back in the field, I'm stunned by the slab size, and the extreme lack of rebar. ESPECIALLY considering the location.
As an engineer I'd love to see the calcs for this one. I bet some creative engineering was used to get it permited. Unfortunately it's going to take some serious money to get that slope and house stable. Adding more soil only compounds the issues.
It's sad to lose one's home, but the phrase 'more money than brains' springs to mind, here.
I used to live at the bottom of this street in Farmington. We used to play exactly where this house is built. We used to call it the sand pit. It’s also where major flooding took place years ago. Blows my mind that houses are being built up there.
House location is a perfect example of just because you can doesn't mean you should make it.
It would also help a lot to plant tree's around to keep the ground more together! You often see landslides on places were they remove trees
This is why you hire an engineer before building on a hillside of loose dirt.
Insane to build a house there and insane to believe you can rescue it.
Those concrete blocks are called bin blocks and are notorious for not having any retaining structural strength. As a bridge engineer I suggest large Rip Rap and steel sheet piles 2/3 of the height driven into the ground. Hydro seeding is a good start. Adding concrete curbing to limit the water runoff down the hillside will help as well. Keeping the water on the asphalt will be best and letting it run down the driveway.
This is not a fix. Your first problem is the lack of vegetation on this hillside causing reels and gully’s to form. If the quality of the soil does not allow vegetation growth, rock stabilization structures are your next move just to protect the hillside. Nonetheless, benching out a hillside for a house basically creates a man made landslide that never stops falling. When you add more weight to a hillside that has been cut out, it makes the toe of that slope kick out. Thus what you see causing the top to sink. Rule of thumb: don’t bench out a sandy mountain to build a house….
Neighbors must love this guy
you need a deadman/ retaining wall on the side of the slope to keep the dirt from sliding. Then back it up with tiers and plants to hold the soil to keep it from eroding. Also, you need a cement ditch to have the water diverted from the back of the house and to run down the street to keep it from soaking up standing water and creating a landslide or create a sinkhole. At the front where you all are working needs the bottom of the retaining walls three-tiered terrace to allow the water to drain from the bottom of the beds.
Word of advice. Never cut into a mountain and use the fill to build on. Think of a square cut in half diagonally and used for fill. If this is the case spend some serious money for piers and a serious drainage system underneath the ground and gravel the heck out of it while compacting the heck out of it. Create a slope less than 20-25 degrees and plant rapid vegetation/trees on the soil. Terrence the front and back of the house and stabilizing piers all over the place. Again gravel underneath the home like crazy and ever where else, so the water percolates under the home like a underground creek. Think about buying land behind you if it can be bought. Just a few thoughts.
There's a reason we call that area "The Sand Pit". People have been trying to build on that and some neighboring slopes for decades. Many gave up. It looks like you finally found a geographical surveyor to do what you ask instead of what's right. the houses in Draper that just slid off the mountain are examples of what could happen when you mess with the natural slope of the mountain.
@HeavyDSparks Drive some telephone poles in like pilings into the ground on the hill sides after all the patch and packing work is done to reinforce the hill itself. deep angle cut the skinny side of the poles with a chain saw and drive it home. Then besides good deep rooted grass sprayed down, plant some deep rooted trees for the more long term. i live in tx now but where im from we spend a lot of time keeping houses on hills from falling into the Chesapeake Bay. if u can drive the pilings deep enough it'll help hold up the hill big time and in the scope of things a bunch old creosote telephone poles are cheap compared to that big ol house. good luck to your thick ol friend bro and respect to you for helping him out. a true friend move
@HeavyDSparks I don't have college degree in any construction field but I have years of construction experience working on airports runway by ripping them out and laying new runway on top of all sorts of soil types. If its cool with you I'd love to give a suggestion on how to keep the home foundation from completely washing out. In the back yard if its at all possible you build a ditch that arches around the house with a thick layer of soilcrete in front and behind the ditch. Now the specs for the distance of the ditch from the house, the depth of the ditch, the type of foundation the ditch needs and the amount of compaction the dirt need can all be provided by reputable civil engineer. Hope that helps the home owner that lives on the side of the mountain. (Love your CZcams channel. yall are freakin awsome)