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09-16-2008, 16:09

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Retaining wall backfill step building questions

Thanks, Murf. OK, since there will be a trench to daylight it's almost as easy to run a separate drain for the shed gutters so that will be done. I'll rent a gas plate compactor too. Picture 21 in my album shows the area where the new wall will go. You can see the need for it The plan was to build two walls but the cost is higher than expected and too much to do in one shot this year.

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09-16-2008, 16:33

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Retaining wall backfill step building questions

Not that I want to screw up a perfectly planned wall by doing something silly like thinking, but here goes anyways.

Your caption on the picture "A retaining wall is being built here to keep the shed from sliding down the hill!" got me thinking.

If the main goal is to stabilize the building, why not just build a much smaller wall but deeper that runs maybe 4-6' out from the shed and around it enough that the shed is standing on flat land?

We do this all the time where we need something along side say a driveway, like a garage, and we need it to match grade to the driveway, but the ground where we want to put it falls away, so we just build a 3 sided wall out from the driveway and a few feet wider and deeper than needed, then put the building on top.

It doesn't take a lot of stable soil to keep a building secure.

Best of luck.

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That's a good point. We decided against that because we'd like to turn that hill into flat terraces that can be used. Because the house is so tall I need to occasionally get a boom lift in there (the main reason for construction overkill) and my wife would like a small greenhouse built on one one of the terraces.

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