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DrewStyduhar
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Dude, literally in the first paragraph ""Due to complications with the county, the building pad was built up just enough to create a level area for the builders to do their thing."""I went back and reread your original post and picture. Whether your pad is level or not isn't the issue. Pad elevation is. Again, should have been considered before construction. The bottom treated skirt board should be sitting on the ground. Or even dug in a couple inches.
I'm not picking on anyone. Just offering observations. When the building construction was done dirt would be brought in to raise the surrounding pad to the bottom of the metal which would create a slope away.
The county pulled some BS with me a week or so before the build was planned to start and AFTER the pad was already built and compacted and signed off by the soil engineer. What, am I supposed to pay thousands last minute to have some dirt company to reconstruct the the pad? or just raise the building up and work with what I have? I know what the plans call out and the skirt board's relation to grade, I'm not an idiot. Even if I had not raised the building up, I already had positive grade on three sides, it was only the front of the build where we had negative grade.
I'm just not sure what your point is though...sounds like you are simply poking fun at folks and making assumptions that every issue is the result of piss poor planning.
Mike Tyson - "everyone has a plan until they punched in the mouth"