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Pro tip: After a wall collapse on a site in Spokane, I never skip checking the footing depth with a tape measure before I lay a single brick.

The foreman had eyeballed the trench and said it was fine, but after three courses the whole thing shifted because it was only 8 inches deep in frozen ground, so now I always verify it myself, even if it slows me down for ten minutes.
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johnson.jade
My buddy's deck nearly fell off a cliff.
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elizabeth_mason28
Read a story last week about a deck collapse from bad footings.
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black.amy
black.amy1mo ago
Holy cow, @johnson.jade, a cliff?
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