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Here in Marin, it's always been a contractor's market. Once the rains stop, they're booked-up. Thus I contracted for the parking space cutout in the winter, and the foundation project the following winter. In both cases, the rains caused delays. And in both cases, there were times that the decision to build in the winter seemed really dumb. Attached: a few pictures of the challenges presented by the water-saturated hillside:
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4.29 inches when I
photographed this web page. I think
Mill Valley measured 5+ inches at the
24-hour mark.
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When the old piers
were demo'd, they were replaced with
temporary supports, braced against the
clay hillside.
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With the heavy rains,
the hillside was collapsing, and some
of the posts were about to fail. There
was little redundancy in the supports,
so a single failure could be catastrophic.
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The foundation
crew did not show-up when the rain was
heavy, so it was up to me to come up
with bracing. Since I was sleeping
upstairs, I was motivated.
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Two weeks
later there was a slide behind the house,
and the pantry roof supports were at
risk...
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| The good news:
I did have help for the cleanup. |
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