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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

Done!

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Thank Christ the surface underneath is nice and even. Now time for black styrofoam…tomorrow!

Siding is coming tomorrow. One week earlier than expected. The pressure is now on.
 
Build a big house and huge garage right at the edge of an earthen embankment and then wonder why they slide when it rains. Smh. More money than brains. Builder seems to have followed flat land practices too close to the slope.
One would assume the builder would account for slope and erosion possibility….assume…
 
A friend had a ravine lot with an in ground concrete pool as did his next door neighbour. The difference was my friend had a far deeper lot. The neighbour noticed cracks in his patio. The concentration of weight near the edge of the ravine was basically starting a landslide. The pool no longer exists but he has a house.

From the second video the garage appears to be built near the edge of the lot. If you want to that, drive piles down to bedrock and build on grade beams.

As far as the London house goes, consult with a landscaper / engineer to find out what vegetation has a root structure that will knit the ground together. Big trees aren't necessarily the answer.
 
Went to the local massive reno and spoke with concrete guys…

$2500 for concrete, running it to the backyard and finishing the pad.

Then I stopped the concrete delivery truck driver on his drive out…

$210/m3 of concrete and the truck sticking around for 1.5hrs. But running it and finishing is on me. I need about 3-4m3.
 
Seriously? The big truck uses the slump test ( it’s a big truck thing) almost daily and the mix going into the truck is computer controlled, it’s dumped in accordance to the project the material is headed for . It’s not Clem and Willy shoveling gravel into a hopper .


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Back spasms. For a week+ you can barely walk to the crapper. A sneeze coming on strikes dread into you whole being. DO NOT JOKE.
 
Almost $12 for 6000psi concrete that my dad says is needed (WTF do I know).

That’s close to $2k in material…or $1000 for the truck….
 
6000 psi concrete for a shed? Is your dad related to kevin?
I think a 6000 PSI pad for a shed would actually be the actions of a bizzaro kevin... as it is double assed not half assed. (although I think kevin did like his concrete so there is that kevin dichotomy...)

I expect a min of 3000 PSI will do the job for a shed. A basement floor from memory is like 3500 or 4000...
 

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