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Owner of LADS Foundations - Owner of Hellbilly Ranch Inc. - Partner at Custom Commercial Forming Ltd.

This is completely RIDICULOUS engineering, very very costly and unnecessary on any residential build ! Especially when people can’t afford what’s out there already. Commercial parkades under multi level apartment buildings have 1/2 this amount of rebar detail with only 8” thick concrete walls. Most retaining walls are already supported enough with backfill on both sides for support and do not need this type of ridiculous overkill and cost to go with it. Retaining walls with backfill support on both sides DO NOT need engineering. There is 10x more engineering in this retaining wall than there is in the suppose to be affordable 3 Plex foundation itself. This ridiculousness needs to stop.

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Mike Good

Owner of LADS Foundations - Owner of Hellbilly Ranch Inc. - Partner at Custom Commercial Forming Ltd.

4mo

Lazy engineer who is not confident in his calculations for one. Anyone can thicken up the concrete and add a ton of rebar and call it good. Cost goes directly to the homeowner for the unneeded engineering, labour, materials and markup.

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Hey Mike. Why is it called a retaining wall if you backfilling both sides? It’s not retaining anything. Change the drawings or the engineer

Cody Denys

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5mo

Building a bridge Mike?

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