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Timbercrib retaining walls - what happens when they rot?

mysterymurdoch · 2017-05-23 08:16:18

There are some large estates near me recently built, with houses priced £400-600k. A lot of them are built on slopes and the gardens are bordered by a huge timbercrib structure, up to 10m high or so. So what happens when this reaches end of life? Are the builders likely to have a warranty in place for that amount of time…

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AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite

24 May 2017 at 8:35AM

It's really quite fun if you zoom in on the Google satellite pics. All of a sudden, the development totally disappears back to a great big dirt hole in the ground...

If the structural engineers have done even a half-arsed job of it, then the timber is pretty much cosmetic. There will be much longer-lasting structural support for the bank behind it. I'd be going back through the planning permission, though, to see what the requirements were.

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