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    Retaining forces on residential footing stemwall in crawlspace

    It is hard for me to believe sliding is an issue here. Are you adding the weight of the house on top? But, yeah, the floor framing can take this although your loads seem way too high for that much backfill.
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    ChatGPT - Nice!

    My friend - who turned me on to ChatGPT is an unemployed Technical Writer. Says it is hard to get a job in that field right now as the current ones are so much more efficient now because of ChatGPT, that less are needed.
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    Subdivision Work - Pricing

    meh, 12k seems too low for this. You could get thrown into a lawsuit on any of these houses while under construction or afterwards - even if it was out of your scope. But like you say, some bottom feeder will likely do this for 4k.
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    Turning houses into boats...???

    Thanks TBE.
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    Retaining wall repair rec

    Sounds like overkill on the steel. If you install the tiebacks around 6 ft. O.C., I imagine you should be able to get a single MC6x18 channel flatwise running horizontal to work. That is usually what we do on basements around here.
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    Retaining wall repair rec

    I am talking about helical tiebacks.
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    Subdivision Work - Pricing

    I also wonder if there are any clauses in our PL coverage about things like this. Say you are using the same design for 1000 units and you only charge 20k. There is a disproportionate risk on the PL provider as they have a large exposure (up to your policy limits) but did not have the liberty to...
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    Retaining wall repair rec

    I think you are making a mistake. I doubt coring 8"Ø holes, 5 ft- ish O.C. is going to have any effect on the existing wall. The repair you are specifying would be 20 times more costly if not more and way more risky. I'm not sure"means and methods" would keep you out of court on this one.
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    How to attach concrete buttress wall to toe side face of CMU retaining wall?

    Helical tiebacks do not require excavation behind the wall.
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    How to attach concrete buttress wall to toe side face of CMU retaining wall?

    Probably should have just continued your earlier post. I assume it is the same 60 ft. long retaining wall? This repair looks like a total CF. What happened to the tie-back idea? Seems a lot cheaper.
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    Turning houses into boats...???

    Thank you ChatGPT...
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    Shelf Support Steel Angle Fastened to Cold Form Exterior Stud for Brick Veneer

    I agree. Please send a memo to the EOR's! Also, include verbage to let them know i am not responsible for computing the lateral loads on their buildings.
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    Turning houses into boats...???

    Ok, What I am finding is that seismic plate tipping is unlikely to be affecting North Carolina. Subsidence is part of it though, but so is sea level rise.
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    Subdivision Work - Pricing

    So no other work than to just size 2 beams and a laterally un-supported wall? What does a laterally un-supported wall mean? What is your work product/deliverable?
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    Retaining concrete reinforced block wall

    Probably a segmented wall is the only thing that is going to work

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