Abstract:
PROJECT BACKGROUND
Dalinghaus Construction has quite the history with this home and it's poly compacted slope in which it sets upon. Prior to the home owner purchasing the home in 2015, Dalinghaus Construction proposed to install push piers around the perimeter of the home to lift and stabilize the 7,100 sqft home. The home lift and stabilization was completed in early 2016. After purchasing the home, the owner had since added an infinity pool, walkways, hard scape, and landscaping around the perviously barren back yard of the home.
The contractors that installed these items failed to take into consideration of the poorly compacted soils that lay in the upper 15' of the slope. Less than 2 years of the pool and hardscape renovations being completed, the owner started to notice cracks and movement of newly constructed walls and the pool.
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Having been familiar with the property and the slope conditions, the owner called us to come out to the home and evaluate the site conditions. During the evaluation time Southern California experienced an unseasonably large amount of rain. The rain water was able to saturate the loose soils and caused the movement and cracking of the walls, hard scape, and pool to increase at an alarming rate. Dalinghaus Construction recommended the owner contact the services of Helfrich and Associates to help design a permanent slope stabilization solution.
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