The retaining wall was replaced under orders from the city. It was tagged as dangerous since it was leaning out and severly cracked.This took several trips to city hall to get the permit as the height of the wall and fence combination had to meet certain restrictions. The new code did not allow for the same wall until I was able to measure the entire linear size and determine the section being replaced was less than 50%. The city engineer sneered a bit at my Visio diagrams even though they were printed on a large format printer, they prefer working with certified professionals, too bad.
The tear down and load out of the wall took only a few hours as there was not one piece of rebar in the whole thing. The new wall will have better than minimum spec for the footing and rebar.
The new wall went in easily but the small yard is a total loss. The sprinklers will have to be re-laid and new grass planted.
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