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A neighbor down the block was adding an addition to his ranch where he was going to add out into the back yard and also put a second story on the whole thing. When they started to excavate in the back for the foundation, the contractor said that hole was filling up with too much water and they couldn’t put in a foundation. So they went back to the architect and then back to the city. Now they eliminated the ground floor addition, but the second story addition juts out over the backyard to cover the origional house and the footprint of the cancelled ground floor addition. They sunk three large posts in the ground to support it. Why, in a neighborhood full of houses with full basements, including the subject house, would they no longer be able to put in a foundation? Or is this contractor not capable of doing something that can be done. The area does get a lot of standing water after a heavy rain, especially that back yard. Also, if they could put in posts to support the second floor, why couldn’t they just put in shorter posts to support both floors that they origonally wanted to do.
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A neighbor down the block was adding an addition to his ranch where he was going to add out into the back yard and also put a second story on the whole thing. When they started to excavate in the back for the foundation, the contractor said that hole was filling up with too much water and they couldn't put in a foundation. So they went back to the architect and then back to the city. Now they eliminated the ground floor addition, but the second story addition juts out over the backyard to cover the origional house and the footprint of the cancelled ground floor addition. They sunk three large posts in the ground to support it. Why, in a neighborhood full of houses with full basements, including the subject house, would they no longer be able to put in a foundation? Or is this contractor not capable of doing something that can be done. The area does get a lot of standing water after a heavy rain, especially that back yard. Also, if they could put in posts to support the second floor, why couldn't they just put in shorter posts to support both floors that they origonally wanted to do.