My leaning retaining wall became a falling down the hillside mess of cinder blocks. I guess with the melting snow and rain that was all it took to push it over the edge.
So now I'm quickly getting estimates before mother nature has enough time to destabilize the lovely fence that was put in right in front of the retaining wall. Ugh. So with that event, the spending moratorium has been officially lifted about a month earlier than expected. Now to hope for the best when the estimates come in!
boo hoo. Our fence has the same leaning problem. The neighbor has propped them up on his side!
ReplyDeleteBoo is definitely the word! You also have brought into full perspective the reason I have not embarked on a new retaining wall and patio combo on the side of my house! Somehow, I can just see this photo (or worse) in my future! The worse case of course being that the patio slides down and hurts one of the resident horses that would be located due south of my property.
ReplyDeleteAll these things I never would have considered when I was a "city girl"!!
--Dani
Oh that just sucks! Repairing the wall is not going to be fun. Will they have to take down that section of fence to do the job? I hope not. With any luck, the contractor can re-use the breeze blocks. It doesn't look like they were actually mortared together which might have been part of the problem :(
ReplyDeleteI had my first contractor appt today, and I don't think they'll have to mess with the fence to repair that section. And yes Jan, no mortar. The guys who looked at it today were quick to say it wasn't done right and would never last if they did it that way.
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