Adding a Railroad Tie Staircase to an Existing Patio
A client needed a staircase to match the retaining wall for their patio. Used a circular saw cut the railroad ties, drilled holes with an auger bit, drove in rebar stakes to hold #39;em in, backfille...
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Retaining Wall and Permeable Patio
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Curt Reinsmith isn't asking much.
He just wants Crewcut Lawn Care to finish the job he said was left unfinished at his Catasauqua home in November 2013.
He told me Crewcut, of Whitehall Township, installed landscaping beds but didn't finish reconstructing a small brick walkway and didn't remove tree stumps from the backyard. He paid $5,400.
Reinsmith isn't the only one who says Crewcut Lawn Care hasn't performed. Five customers have sued Crewcut since August, alleging they paid for work they didn't receive. Others have complained to the Better Business Bureau.
I talked to Ben Scheirer, Crewcut's owner, on Dec. 15. He told me he'd "take care" of Reinsmith's remaining work within the next few days or week, that he'd have to hire someone to remove the stumps.
"We did leave him go for a little while there, only because I was trying to find someone else to complete the job," Scheirer said.
There isn't much work left to be done on the walkway. Only a row of bricks is missing, though Reinsmith says the walkway isn't level.
Six weeks after Scheirer told me he'd take care of the work, it remains unfinished, though it looks like there's finally some progress being made.
Reinsmith said Scheirer came by Wednesday with a tree service to mark the stumps to be removed. Reinsmith said he was told the work would be done when the weather permits, which is fine with him. He said Scheirer also agreed to resolve the issue with the walkway.
Reinsmith told me he feels "a lot more confident" that the work will be done.
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Mohamed Hadid, known for building celebrity mega-mansions, was in the process of building the roughly 30,000-square-foot 901 Strada Vecchia in Bel Air. This property sits next to Walton Laurie's property, but has been plunged into building purgatory. After it drew the ire of some of its neighborsin particular, an entertainment lawyer who lived below the property and worried that it would slide down the hill and crush his housethe City looked into the complaints. The L.A. Department of Building and Safety pulled the home's construction permits last fall.
According to Hadid's lawyer, Bruce Rudman, one of the City's requirements had been that they build a retaining wall to hold up the hillside. It's this wall that Walton Laurie says damaged her tree by cutting into the tree's roots, the Beverly Hills Courier reports. Her company, LW Partnership, has filed a summary judgement in L.A. Superior Court against 901 Strada Vecchia, demanding that portions of the wall be removed and that she be paid $90,000 for the damage to the tree. How many trees have sacrificed their lives to make way for new Walmart superstores, we can't be certain, but this particular eucalyptus tree sure was special to the family.
The wall is 200 feet long and is 8 feet high in some places, but in others, up to 18 feet high. The summary judgement states that the wall "stands at least 100 feet on the neighboring family's property without the family's consent."
Rudman disagrees. He says that the new retaining wall simply replaces an old one that had been in the same spot previously. He said that decades earlier, Walton Laurie's land and the property belonging to the mega-mansion were one, but about 80 years or so ago, they were cut up. At that time, a wall was built to separate the two parcels. This new wall replaces that one, and it traces the exact same line, he says.
As for the tree, Rudman disagrees with that too. He says an arborist declared that the tree is just fine, and if anything is to blame for a rough patch in the tree's health, it's the drought.
[h/t to Curbed LA]
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Walmart Heiress Demands $90,000 For A Damaged Eucalyptus Tree
APNancy Walton Laurie wants $90,000 for a damaged tree.
Wal-Mart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie is suing a developer for allegedly damaging a "cherished" eucalyptus tree at her home in Los Angeles.
Walton Laurie, who is worth nearly$5 billion, is seeking $90,000 from developer Mohamed Hadid's company for apparently traumatizing the tree,Curbed LA reportsvia theBeverly Hills Courier.
The company built a 200-foot-long retaining wall on a neighboring property that"cut the roots to the family's cherished eucalyptus tree, causing it severe damage and putting it at risk of falling over," Walton Laurie claims in a summary judgement.
She wants Hadid's company to remove the wall, in addition to paying damages.
Bruce Rudman, an attorney for Hadid, says the tree is perfectly healthy and that the retaining wall is in the exact same spot as a wall that it replaced, according to the Beverly Hills Courier.
"We have an arborist who says the tree is thriving, and at one point in time was suffering from the drought," Rudman said.
Walton Laurie is the daughter of Bud Walton, who cofounded Wal-Mart with his brother, Sam Walton.
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Tonya Maxwell, tmaxwell@citizen-times.com 2:01 p.m. EST January 26, 2015
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Crews with Thalle Construction Co. worked last month to contain sediment from washing into the road after a retaining wall at Asheville Regional Airport collapsed Dec. 24.(Photo: Katie Bailey/bkbailey@citizen-times.com)
ASHEVILLE A construction company building a retaining wall up to four stories high at Asheville Regional Airport without a permit has been given the go-ahead to continue work, Buncombe County officials said.
The contractor, Thalle Construction Co., based in Hillsborough, paid $22,274 for the permit late last week, said Matt Stone, director of the permits and inspections office. That cost included a fine, which doubled the permit cost, for failing to obtain the required documentation before construction of the wall.
Shortly before Christmas, wall panels on the structure, nearly complete, began collapsing on one end and buckling on the other following rain. The wall is composed of concrete panels about five feet square and is four-stories tall at its peak and nearly one quarter of a mile long.
Fill dirt from behind the structure washed across Ferncliff Park Drive and into wetlands adjacent to the French Broad River, prompting the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to issue a violation notice for the leaching sediment.
Afterward, county officials learned Thalle Construction Co. had never pulled a permit for the $2.6 million project.
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A man who died when his pickup truck rolled off a bridge early Saturday morning on the North Side has been identified by as Calvin Bunton, 27, according to the Bexar County medical examiners office.
Bunton was driving a 1978 Chevrolet pickup southbound in the 9200 block of the Interstate 35 access road just before 3:30 a.m., when he lost control and crashed into a guardrail, according to the San Antonio Police Department.
The pickup ended up balanced on the bridge's retaining wall, then flipped over the edge of the bridge, onto the main lanes in the 3000 block of Northeast Loop 410, police said.
Emergency medical technicians pronounced the man dead at the scene.
Staff Writer Alia Malik contributed to this report.
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Kinect exterior scan sample using Scanect
I attached a Xbox 360 Kinect to a small Winbook 7" tablet, I run the kinect off a battery like people use to jumpstart their cars. With Skanect, this scan took about a minute. I #39;ve also had...
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