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Old 02-29-2024, 11:51pm   #1
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Just curious, was all that crap a surprise or do you or can you test to see what's underneath?
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I bet when you show up to the job site in that little pickup they think it is the wife bringing lunch..... Egghead...shm...lol
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That’s a lot of driveway rocks!
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That’s a lot of driveway rocks!
Yaddie saw it and probably blew a load in his shorts
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Limestone?
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Metamorphosed limestone, or marble.
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Metamorphosed limestone, or marble.
MARBLE??? a tad EXPENSIVE for a driveway....NO????

counter tops and window sills is more like it...????
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Glad you finally found your marbles.
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Looks like good driveway material. But I would never want to build on the side of a mountain. What a PITA
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MARBLE??? a tad EXPENSIVE for a driveway....NO????

counter tops and window sills is more like it...????
The contractor removed 4' of overburden and used that to form a shelf and grade the driveway. Then he had a blast crew drill 15' into the bedrock on the back edge, along with a series of lower holes. So that's how we ended up with a 19' tall cut.

After discussing the options, we decided to put the back of the house about 12' away from the cut. It will be a tall basement, masonry walls on three sides, transitioning to wood in the front. We'll add in a few feet of soil behind for drainage, and leave the rock exposed. The owner can light up the rock at night.

We'll also have to divert drainage above the cut, and maybe add a fence.
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Old 03-01-2024, 9:47am   #12
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Looks like good driveway material. But I would never want to build on the side of a mountain. What a PITA
That's what the high cotton folk do here.

For me, the road to get to the road to get to his 15% driveway sucks. Narrow pavement, random radius curves, switchbacks. Just nasty.
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Looks like good driveway material. But I would never want to build on the side of a mountain. What a PITA
Never an issue in our state!!
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What, exactly, is "weird" about it?

People in states with real mountains, where they also build houses on them, are laughing at you.
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The contractor removed 4' of overburden and used that to form a shelf and grade the driveway. Then he had a blast crew drill 15' into the bedrock on the back edge, along with a series of lower holes. So that's how we ended up with a 19' tall cut.

After discussing the options, we decided to put the back of the house about 12' away from the cut. It will be a tall basement, masonry walls on three sides, transitioning to wood in the front. We'll add in a few feet of soil behind for drainage, and leave the rock exposed. The owner can light up the rock at night.

We'll also have to divert drainage above the cut, and maybe add a fence.


Does not look very stable
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Does not look very stable
I agree, but what's your opinion of the site?
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That's what the high cotton folk do here.

For me, the road to get to the road to get to his 15% driveway sucks. Narrow pavement, random radius curves, switchbacks. Just nasty.
Yeah it sounds nasty. No thanks.
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Never an issue in our state!!
I’m not crazy about the slope on my homesite but it’s a little bit hilly up in these parts of the state.
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I agree, but what's your opinion of the site?

I'm not an engineer but I sure would allow some distance to the house for the designer rock slide. That's the first place kids will go to play.

That first pic on the left side where the dirt seems to be graded back about 25-30 degrees? Cut the rest of it to match.
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What's the slope on your site, 0.5%?
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