Hillside Deck .. - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

Joe Wood · 03-03-2008, 01:54 PM

That doesn't start to describe this deck! This is one right near a project I'm working on, up on a mountain. Check out the retaining wall system. Doesn't look too safe to me, especially in our So Cal earthquake country .. quite a few houses up here have the same type of retaining walls.

SelfContract · 03-03-2008, 01:56 PM

Mud slide zone?

RobertCDF · 03-03-2008, 02:21 PM

They use that style engineered to hold up bridges around here. They have a black plastic mesh that is stacked in each layer and they unroll it and add dirt and compact. They repeat this for every layer and run the plastic really far back. Its kind of cool.

redwood · 03-03-2008, 07:55 PM

They have something similar up here in Nor Cal at one of the wealthy private High schools, that is up on a big hill. I'll try to get pictures sometime. There is a olympic size pool behind one of these walls that has to be 30' high. Like described above, they have deadmen going back into the hillside.

John Hyatt · 03-03-2008, 10:50 PM

Thats really some good construstion if its done right,over here they use fiberglass webing as the deadman it is placed over the lexann rods that go into the holes in each course of the blocks. Those blocks weight in around 80 lb per. That kind of wall can go 6' with out a deadman.

Going up that high drainage has to be kept up with and can be done in several ways. The webing/fabric/deadman is placed on the compacted fill then covered over the same way in 6' lifts or so. J.

John Hyatt · 03-03-2008, 11:06 PM

Joe Mon,at first I thought that was a plane you caught in the first frame,then later I was seeing it was a big ass bird!!

You S Call Folks have all the good stuff!!!! Man I am really loving all that blue sky and sunshine, Last night the weather over here was thunder,lightling,rain,snow and two tornados......... Ghesssssssssssss

John Mon

Joe Wood · 03-03-2008, 11:15 PM

Those were a couple of circling ravens, crusin around, riding the thermals like hawks do. I waited till that one flew into the viewfinder.