Now how would you fix this screw up?? 1

[COEngineeer]

I guess someone made a mistake on the elevation. This is pretty funny. I guess you can just sell the house and include a hummer with the house. This isn't my project btw.

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[BigInch]

OK, its obviously a rip off situation, they didn't even put a convex curve into the ramp up to the garage. But they did it that way because the design was drawn that way by somebody that never saw the site, didn't understand how to read a site contour drawing or make a cut & fill plan and there's tons of more money for the contractor under the "Extra Work" clause in the construction contract, because somebody doesn't know how to prepare a contract that would prohibit that kind of construction, or manage a construction project either, and never even cared to visit the construction site. Hopefully the idiot developer will find somebody that knows what the heck they are doing before starting the next job (if there will be a next job). Hopefully he went bust.



BigInch-born in the trenches.

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[archeng59]

was there a civil engineer involved in this project? were there ANY engineers or architects involved? doesn't appear to be any planning involved as far as grading and access between the street and houses are concerned.

 

[bridgebuster]

"I'm the engineer do it my way"

JStephen - with all due respect, it was probably ""I'm the developer do it my way". After the site/civil plans are done, I doubt the engineer is ever called upon again.

Where I live, there is a lot of on-going residential construction; everything is done by subcontracting. Builders/developers don't do any actual construction; they're just brokers. The concrete guy probably asked the developer's foreman what to do and he was probably told "just put it in if you want to get paid."