another custom house with 4 foot wide retaining wall footings only 3 steps should be a piece of cake right lol
so the pad company over excavated the pad to past bottom of footing on the up hill side except they were 6 inches shallow and they missed the envolope of the house by 4 foot in places then were they did fill back they used really nice material but didnt get much compaction on it so that material wouldnt hold shape on the edge of the ditch.
with all the corners that were missed it added on to our job of digging the footings by quite a bit when you dig rock out that is 2 foot minus it takes time to find dirt to fill the low spots but we call that job security so it really doesnt matter. the owner of the concrete company already asked me to track all the extra work separate so he can charge the builder for it.
the part that really sucks it all the rocks we dig up they take to the fill side and bury them witch means we will be digging them up when the plumbing gets done. i dig for the plumber i already called him and told him to take pictures of what they are covering up so he can go t and m on the digging cause i bet it will take twice as long. i am really not complaining i am going to make a lot more money cause of the builder and pad guys incompetence.