Colorado B.S. Thread

Chris,

I am not sure how to post a video up. By the time we realized that the crap was happening we were too late but I do have some video of it draining out of it, albeit w/o the GUSHERs that were happening all night long.

Gutter guards would NOT have helped. The sheer amt of rain and hail that happened to just around 9pm was overwhelming. During the "break" last afternoon/eve, we had our wetvac out and fans helping the neighbors. There was literally sooooo much precip it couldn't have helped. I like gutter guards but when that much precip happens that fast our neighborhood is screwed. I managed to get the county to come out and put in some asphalt curbing (after 4 years of battling) and it helped a bit for the erosion.

I digress but needless to say it was a royal PITA.

 

Thanks. I've told him that about inserts a couple of times. I'm doing my best to convince him, but time and budget... Will be at least another few weeks before you might hear anything from me.

 

Performance cycle it’s a few blocks from fay Myers

 

that’s a nice toy!!

Can always borrow a small skid steer from work if y’all need help

 

Small shop, great owner.

If you want pictures of mold to sway his decision just let me know

 

Nooooooooooooooo. This canNOT be used for backfilling!

 

The kendas can probably handle both horsepower of your scooter. @Littles said he wanted to ENJOY his bike.

 

Why? That’s what our guys in the field use?

Some have compaction wheels for a skid or hoe

 

OK. As long as we agree that no quality compactive effort can be achieved by this method.

 

I could find you thousands of examples of why this is not an appropriate means of backfilling. I should clarify though, that yes, you can backfill with this but you cannot compact the soils that you are using to do so which is more important than you can imagine.

 

Then I hope my comments didnt come off wrong.

I work for a geotech company and have horror stories about fill walked in with a dozer.

 

See so this is the issue. The front of the house has an engineered rock wall that holds back the soil/rock that butts up against the porch and house. With all the hail/rain, it literally blew out all the "backfill" (not sure if it was backfilled but it sure as shit had to. So now....the LEVEL part on top is down an inch or two and some of the laid rocks are now bulging out. BIG ROCKS. So at SOME point in time I have to A. Fix the drainage off the roof for a 100 yr downpour/hail event. B. Shore up the boulders/granite C. Pray for a drought....(which I would never do).

Sorry to make light of this but our home really wasn't anything compared so some of my neighbors down the street or up the street for that matter

 

Integrity at its finest right there.

Im glad you have grown up since then.

 

You didn’t work on the 36 project that failed did you?

 

Then I’m glad you grew up before then. (There’s a shandy in that mug for you)