This can't be Good for a new development
- GordonH
- Сварливий старий мерзотник
- Posts: 39043
- Joined: Oct 4th, 2008, 7:21 pm
This can't be Good for a new development
https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/2 ... nley-Beach
Potential buyers maybe hesitant after seeing this.
Potential buyers maybe hesitant after seeing this.
I don't give a damn whether people/posters like me or dislike me, I'm not on earth to win any popularity contests.
-
- Guru
- Posts: 5244
- Joined: Jul 21st, 2005, 11:48 am
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
Have you seen some of the houses there?
Built out and cantilevered on fill.
The posts for the decks and part of the house and not joined to the footings or foundations at ground level.
Just a tube filled with concrete and hey we are good to go.
Geez we might as well put up a pool on a bunch of posts too.
Built out and cantilevered on fill.
The posts for the decks and part of the house and not joined to the footings or foundations at ground level.
Just a tube filled with concrete and hey we are good to go.
Geez we might as well put up a pool on a bunch of posts too.
- the truth
- Admiral HMS Castanet
- Posts: 33556
- Joined: May 16th, 2007, 9:24 pm
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
yup. fly by night contractors
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." -George Orwell
- alanjh595
- Banned
- Posts: 24532
- Joined: Oct 20th, 2017, 5:18 pm
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
the truth wrote:yup. fly by night contractors
What area of expertise would be responsible for causing/forecasting a sink-hole?
Bring back the LIKE button.
- lightspeed
- Guru
- Posts: 7037
- Joined: Jan 13th, 2016, 9:58 am
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
alanjh595 wrote:the truth wrote:yup. fly by night contractors
What area of expertise would be responsible for causing/forecasting a sink-hole?
Geotech.
"Why does everyone in Kelowna act like they're in Hollywood"
A hermit; a recluse; one of the Okanagan "hill people"
All my haters are less successful than me...
A hermit; a recluse; one of the Okanagan "hill people"
All my haters are less successful than me...
- alanjh595
- Banned
- Posts: 24532
- Joined: Oct 20th, 2017, 5:18 pm
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
alanjh595 wrote:the truth wrote:yup. fly by night contractors
What area of expertise would be responsible for causing/forecasting a sink-hole?
lightspeed wrote:Geotech.
Well then, I wouldn't call Geotech a "Fly-by nighter" contractor.
Bring back the LIKE button.
-
- Board Meister
- Posts: 484
- Joined: Mar 18th, 2007, 7:16 pm
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
You have a lot of unknowns when you are dealing with heavy earth, these things can happen.
-
- Newbie
- Posts: 32
- Joined: Apr 7th, 2008, 9:16 am
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
Maybe if the developers stopped trying to completely alter the landscape by blasting the **** out of mountainsides these things wouldn't happen. Instead of trying to work with the land they have and contour the homes to fit the landscape, they blast millions of cubic metres of rock and are shocked when this happens.
Cut and fill = ugly development
Is there such a thing as a responsible, ethical developer in the Okanagan?
Cut and fill = ugly development
Is there such a thing as a responsible, ethical developer in the Okanagan?
- alanjh595
- Banned
- Posts: 24532
- Joined: Oct 20th, 2017, 5:18 pm
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
muddydogs wrote:Maybe if the developers stopped trying to completely alter the landscape by blasting the **** out of mountainsides these things wouldn't happen. Instead of trying to work with the land they have and contour the homes to fit the landscape, they blast millions of cubic metres of rock and are shocked when this happens.
Cut and fill = ugly development
Is there such a thing as a responsible, ethical developer in the Okanagan?
How can you be sure that wasn't happening in this development? Do you have any evidence that there was any blasting at all in this location?
Bring back the LIKE button.
- WalterWhite
- Lord of the Board
- Posts: 3838
- Joined: Jan 31st, 2017, 3:56 pm
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
That's not a "sinkhole", and glacial till doesn't just "slough". In this area it's hard as hell and the next best thing to bedrock. It's practically impermeable to groundwater unless disturbed.
-
- Generalissimo Postalot
- Posts: 862
- Joined: Jan 15th, 2017, 4:42 am
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
featfan wrote:Have you seen some of the houses there?
Built out and cantilevered on fill.
The posts for the decks and part of the house and not joined to the footings or foundations at ground level.
Just a tube filled with concrete and hey we are good to go.
Geez we might as well put up a pool on a bunch of posts too.
I had to look it up. I am no engineer but when I looked it up I came across a few pics which made me think hell naw. A few examples...
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ7ly67noqY/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTWxVrFjDtQ/
Beautiful homes though...
Why don't developers try to stay more within the natural way the land was?
- lightspeed
- Guru
- Posts: 7037
- Joined: Jan 13th, 2016, 9:58 am
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
Scrobins94 wrote:
I had to look it up. I am no engineer but when I looked it up I came across a few pics which made me think hell naw. A few examples...
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ7ly67noqY/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTWxVrFjDtQ/
OMG....just no.
"Why does everyone in Kelowna act like they're in Hollywood"
A hermit; a recluse; one of the Okanagan "hill people"
All my haters are less successful than me...
A hermit; a recluse; one of the Okanagan "hill people"
All my haters are less successful than me...
- Queen K
- Queen of the Castle
- Posts: 70708
- Joined: Jan 31st, 2007, 11:39 am
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
I too am horrified. Sickened by what I'm seeing there really.
How does that sort of construction get passed?
How does that sort of construction get passed?
As WW3 develops, no one is going to be dissing the "preppers." What have you done?
-
- Newbie
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Jun 22nd, 2017, 12:53 pm
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
You people understand that these stilted houses are not just put up by "fly by night" contractors right? All of that stilting is ENGINEERED and the homes are built by reputable home builders...
I bet you you guys won't drive over a bridge because you can't understand how it just stays up in the air like that!! Just because it looks sketchy to your untrained eye doesn't mean it isn't structurally sound.
I don't know why I read these Castanet forums.
I bet you you guys won't drive over a bridge because you can't understand how it just stays up in the air like that!! Just because it looks sketchy to your untrained eye doesn't mean it isn't structurally sound.
I don't know why I read these Castanet forums.
-
- Übergod
- Posts: 1643
- Joined: Jul 5th, 2005, 7:47 am
Re: This can't be Good for a new development
When I first saw that development going in I couldn't believe it was ever approved. Sad to see the Okanagan being geo-formed so they can cram more and more developments in.