Thanks everyone for their input! We have decided to give them a preliminary report with our findings just to get them start with excavation. Once their building site is cut we are going to go back out and have a better look at the subsurface conditions. Stay tuned...
The area they are building in has height restrictions and requirements so they have to cut down and into the hillside that much just to meet them. Our concern is the footing transition from rock to soil, in general we do not like to see that sort of transition. That is why we would like to see...
Hi all,
I have a new residential job that consists of a 1-story slab on grade residence that is to be built on a moderately sloping hillside. My company did three test bores and found the following: Hole 1 consisted of low plasticity clay to approximately 13 feet where weathered but hard...
