Why not to build on a hill

[Ed Pawlowski]

I guess some people don't know how to engineer structures on a hill. But an auto jack can help.

Photos from an inspector.

[Dean Hoffman]

They need some Mayan engineers.

And someone who cares about their work.

[Ed Pawlowski]

They may not have had fancy equipment but they sure were good engineers.

[Dean Hoffman]

The could've at least used a screw jack instead of the floor jack. And maybe thrown a couple shingles under the jack legs.

[gfretwell]

We rented this cabin in South Dakota

I was walking around looking and I saw the pilings were just sitting on rocks. One good kick would have brought the place down.

When the bed collapsed in the middle of the night <true> I thought we were heading to the creek.

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Nope just proper piles that go down to bedrock and steel instead of wood structure for the deck.