Thread: My Autumn and Winter project

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Originally Posted by dmw56

I am a safety guy and that scares the hell out of me!

You also might want to gusset both side of the bottom of the I beam. You lost a lot of strength cutting it like that.

No gusset needed, the beams were used to straighten up the wall and they did their job. These are four inch beams and the estimate was for three inch. I'll be taking two of them out now that it's straight. A 2X6 studded wall will be going against that wall and am thinking about putting up a few 2x5 steel tubbing along with the wood.

There were two factors that made the wall tip; improper landscaping, roots and it didn't help having the wrong backfill. So now if it ever stops raining I'll get it landscaped properly. I also put in a vinyl moisture barier that will let it breath, two inches of foam insulation, and then covered the foam with groundbreaker.

The picture shows one of the roots which was firmly centered on the corner of the basement wall (see the notch on lower left), another of the roots had a fourteen inch diameter, had to used my floor jack to pop that one out.

I got the hole filled up (packed it all the way up) and covered the whole area just when it started to drizzle, hopefully this saturday I can haul out the extra soil. Some of it is quite soggy, now I'm glad I covered the grass with a tarp before I started putting dirt on it.