I guess some people don't know how to engineer structures on a hill. But an auto jack can help.
Photos from an inspector.
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Why not to build on a hill
Oct 07, 2020
Last reply: 5 years ago
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They need some Mayan engineers.
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And someone who cares about their work.
They may not have had fancy equipment but they sure were good engineers.
The could've at least used a screw jack instead of the floor jack. And maybe thrown a couple shingles under the jack legs.
We rented this cabin in South Dakota
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I was walking around looking and I saw the pilings were just sitting on rocks. One good kick would have brought the place down.
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When the bed collapsed in the middle of the night <true> I thought we were heading to the creek.
Nope just proper piles that go down to bedrock and steel instead of wood structure for the deck.
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