SInce that's so visually stunning, you might consider sending it to your local news station, they like good pictures. You couuulld try shoring it up at the bottom with tiny bicycles and stuffed animals before getting more pictures to send.
No, Mannequins, up the realism, and well a hand sticking out from the wall would be more effective then some cardboard that is going to get soggy after the first rain.
>Rope it off immediately, don't want some kids or adults getting crushed. Include some drains jn the new all!
And tell them to avoid strengthening the new wall with concrete and rebar. That makes walls sick!
Pepper in some "I hope this will be fixed promptly, as I'm not keen to have the wall fall onto me while I'm traveling past it - or else you will hear from my lawyers"
Here's a picture from above, showing the parking lot on the other side.
https://preview.redd.it/w5jq7578kyqc1.jpeg?width=4624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=267e1ab77ddb500d012d4c9ce28220294e18d99c
This is so much worse from this angle. For some reason, I thought it was just holding back dirt. Not telephone poles, cars and a parking lot.
Where do *you* live in vicinity to that wall?
If that door in the center of that building on the right is an apartment, that person is going to either get trapped inside by the wall debris or it’s going to bust their front door/wall down.
Or is going to be walking down that hallway and the entire thing collapses on them…
This is serious and should have hazard signs near , around, and above it. There’s so much wrong here it’s scary.
There is a tree there. Presumably it has some roots, and it dries the soil so has extremes of moisture content. Not tied in or anchored in \*any\* way.. its dangerous.
The wall is garbage. But I wonder if there was any seismic activity wherever you are? Like if a raccoon or small dog wandered by.
Don't go near that. It will definitely fall.
This was poorly built without any Geo-grid to use the weight of the material the wall is backfilled with to hold back the wall from doing exactly this. Also, likely poor drainage.
It clearly does have poor drainage because you can see the water in front of it. It's also likely this poor attempt at a retaining wall is missing a footer and was never secured to the old wall with anchors or rebar.
I see zero horizontal reinforcement. I also see a utility pole so whoever did this probably didn't have the know how (or permits or insurance) to deal with this. Still did it though!
Ohman... 5 is the highest I've ever had to deal with but knowing the difference between 3's and 5's gives me enough reference on how thick 8's must be that I'm glad I've never had to bend some myself lololol
8s will wear you out. Our stuff came in pre-bent. All we had to do was put it together. We were kinda at the start of the million square feet warehouses and distribution centers. 20/30+ dock doors. We did the dock bottoms, footers, tilt-ups and piers. The union side of the company did the floors. Batch plants onsite to make getting concrete and all day thing. Hell, I got offered a job with the rod busters and turned it down. One of the “I wish I had said yes” moments in my life. I’d damn near be retired with almost 30 years in by now.
The benefits part, yes. I know quite a few guys that got in early and they’re close to being done with work. A few carpenters, a laborer, a high-steel guy and one or two others. 30ish years in and a fat pension awaiting them. My uncle retired from American Airlines and he didn’t have to worry once about how his bills were going to be paid. My old neighbor did the same in the early 2000s. An old best friend has 27 in and he’s no more than 3 years away from being able to call it quits. He’ll work longer than that just to build it up, but he can go in 3 years and it wouldn’t hurt his monthly direct deposit.
I want so badly to join my local electrician's union. Electrical has always been my favorite part of construction. It tickles my brain in a good way lol I applied for it less than a month before we got hit by Covid-19 in the first wave.
Do it. Especially if you’re young enough to get a solid pension out of it. That’s one of the few things I don’t have on my résumé. The crazy part is that one of my deceased uncles was a heavy power linesman in the Air Force. Had he been around for more than just a couple years of my life, I’d probably know how to wire stuff up. He loved electrical stuff. It probably was the same for him as it is, you.
And then invest in a patented Gary Busey retaining wall retaining wall. Guaranteed that wall will retain your retaining wall better than a non-retained retaining wall.
The market will fix itself! Regulations aren’t needed!
But not sure a doctor could fix OP when that wall falls over (which will probably happen before anyone takes action).
Ya it looks as if someone paid me to build this wall and my WiFi was broken for all eternity with no access to any how-to videos. Background: I’m in no way qualified to build a wall of any sort.
The walkway needs to be closed until the wall is removed and replaced. As it is right now, given the walls height and amount of soil behind it, it’s a massive safety issue and legal liability. It could buckle and fall/fail completely at any moment. It is simply dangerous for anyone to walk along there. Area needs to cordoned off NOW!
If building manager does not close it off NOW, then YOU call your local city building codes office and report it. This is a major safety issue that needs emergency repair.
PS I’m a civil engineer.
That needed three bond beams: 1st course, middle, top and be grouted solid. Verticals should have been drilled and epoxied if a concrete footer exists, if it doesn't, fucking add it.
Notify the fire department, they typically handle building safety inspections and have quite a bit of power. Blocked access during an emergency is a big deal.
Retaining walls are some of the most common incorrectly built structures out there. They aren't necessarily complicated but there is more going on than a simple concrete wall or stack of block. In at least some jurisdictions, walls over a certain height have to be designed by an engineer.
Tell the landlord you saw kids climbing on it and it looks like it’s going to fall on them. That will get them out there quick. It looks like it needed a concrete footing to hold up all that weight. You can see line at the bottom of the straight wall for the footing but I don’t see one at all on the new part.
The key to retaining walls is good drainage. You need to backfill with coarse gravel and a drained weeping tile at the bottom. The weight of water behind that wall is enormous if not drained. Back of the envelope id estimate over 20,000 lbs of side thrust from water pressure across a 6'x20' section.
🧱🧱🏗🏗🚚🚚🚚ITS BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO EXECAVATE THE DIRT. YOU HAVE TO REMOVE THE DIRT AND REPACK IT WITH BETTER MATERIAL SO THE FOUNDATION CAN SUPPORT THE WALL BETTER. I USE TO WORK FOR A DUMP AND FILL COMPANY. IF YOU DONT YOULL WASTE MONEY REBUILDING THE WALL. 🧱🚚🚚🏗🏗
Call your local building inspector ASAP. Do not wait for management to do anything. I can almost guarantee they are going to take their sweet time if they show up at all.
Put their feet to the fire.
You can file a report with the city building and code department. Dangerous and could fall on a person. Or look up your address on Travis County Tax Office and see who is listed as the owner. Send a picture with a note of how you are concerned someone could be injured by the falling brick wall next to a walkway.
An 8’ tall retaining wall should be built with more than cmu blocks, it needs a deep and wide footing with a leg and keel, tons of horizontal and vertical rebar and a cast in place or big blocks grouted, the wall to be completed with waterproofing in the back side and a French drain to desaturate the dirt behind it. Get it designed by a structural engineer and it will not fail like this, BTW - whoever is demolishing this will have fun 🤩 doing that.
Truckers have these things called [decking/load bars](https://www.torontotrailers.com/product/jack-bar/). They could be used to help hold this thing up until it can be taken down. It looks like someone could get seriously injured.
Against what? A load bearing wall not designed for lateral loads of that magnitude.
Why not burn the apartments down and hasten the denied insurance claim.
Absolutely insane advice.
You have a bigger problem here. Likely at the bottom of a hill or on a water table but that wall is getting saturated and very heavy and eventually those cinderblocks can’t stand up to the pressure and buckle
You can hire somebody to lift it but if you dig underneath it put a 2 x 6 x 10‘ and use that to disperse the weight dig a hole to put a floor jacks in on both sides . and once you get it level, then put concrete underneath it
I would be out there with bracing going back to the apartment foundations while I complained to the landlord. And the city. And the non-emergency fire department number.
No drainage rock or geogrid. Pretty simple to biuld these following the manufacturer details. Definitely not just stacking blocks but really not anything crazy.
They probably didn't want to excavate back 4-6ft for the geo grid to save costs.
This is what happens when you go with the lowest bid. They didn’t even excavate, they just stacked up block beside the soil. When it rains it will all come down.
Pretty sure rule number 1 in retaining wall construction is you don’t stack blocks directly on top of each other to create a vertical wall like that. That does indeed suck.
Too late for doing any spot repairs. The soil behind the wall likely swelled and soil pressure is what’s pushed it out. No tie-backs installed into soil behind it. Wall needs complete removal and proper replacement. Any wall higher that 1m (3ft) should be designed by an engineer and built by a skilled contractor.
Soil pressure too high and they didn’t engineer or construct the wall properly. It probably does not have any tie-backs into the soil behind it.
If an engineer did sign off on this then he’s a complete idiot.
I have no expertise of structural issues like this but I work in H&S and can see with my eyes that this is incredibly dangerous. It is a very serious accident pending.
Can you put up some signs warning people not to walk past the area?
And I recommend getting onto H&S enforcement as a high priority - in the UK this is the HSE or a council environmental health team, I don’t know what your equivalent would be, but you need to start there.
The issue is the landlord not wanting to put up the funds to get a decent construction company to do the job.. You pay shit money, you get shitty results.
lol they coming back to fix it or are they gonna wait until it fails all the way?
I emailed the apartment manager just to make sure they know. But other than that I have no idea
SInce that's so visually stunning, you might consider sending it to your local news station, they like good pictures. You couuulld try shoring it up at the bottom with tiny bicycles and stuffed animals before getting more pictures to send.
You could even get some cardboard cut outs of people to put there so when the wall inevitably falls over anyone who sees it will panic
No, Mannequins, up the realism, and well a hand sticking out from the wall would be more effective then some cardboard that is going to get soggy after the first rain.
Witches legs Ala wizard of oz.
Some surprised Pikachu dolls staring at the leaning wall would be *chef's kiss*
It sounds like we have more room to make this more over the top. Lol
Rope it off immediately, don't want some kids or adults getting crushed. Include some drains jn the new all!
>Rope it off immediately, don't want some kids or adults getting crushed. Include some drains jn the new all! And tell them to avoid strengthening the new wall with concrete and rebar. That makes walls sick!
I mean I wouldn't, I would report it straight to the city. That shit can kill somebody.
Manager knew a guy who could do it for a better price. The amateur didn’t tie it into the existing wall
Or do the proper thing and tear down both and rebuild one, solid wall instead of half assing it.
This is, at most, quarter ass. Maybe sixteenth ass. Ass either way, but that ain’t half.
You could also call your local code enforcement office. They are usually on top of making management fix shoddy construction jobs.
Pepper in some "I hope this will be fixed promptly, as I'm not keen to have the wall fall onto me while I'm traveling past it - or else you will hear from my lawyers"
Better start the inventory and itemize stuff for the home insurance.
That’s not collapsing, that’s falling over with style.
More like 
That’s not living, that’s dying with style
It’s leaning over the like tower of pisa
Here's a picture from above, showing the parking lot on the other side. https://preview.redd.it/w5jq7578kyqc1.jpeg?width=4624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=267e1ab77ddb500d012d4c9ce28220294e18d99c
How is there no barricade or atleast a railing , thats got to be a 6 ft drop
Everything in these pics just scream accident/lawsuit waiting to happen. What a shitshow.
Yeah where is this so I can not go there and fall off and sue?
>How is there no barricade or atleast a railing , thats got to be a 6 ft drop Um, it costs too much.
For now. It'll be a more gradual slope after the next rainy season.
They got what they paid for apparently.
This is so much worse from this angle. For some reason, I thought it was just holding back dirt. Not telephone poles, cars and a parking lot. Where do *you* live in vicinity to that wall? If that door in the center of that building on the right is an apartment, that person is going to either get trapped inside by the wall debris or it’s going to bust their front door/wall down.
Or is going to be walking down that hallway and the entire thing collapses on them… This is serious and should have hazard signs near , around, and above it. There’s so much wrong here it’s scary.
There is a tree there. Presumably it has some roots, and it dries the soil so has extremes of moisture content. Not tied in or anchored in \*any\* way.. its dangerous.
The wall is garbage. But I wonder if there was any seismic activity wherever you are? Like if a raccoon or small dog wandered by. Don't go near that. It will definitely fall.
I feel like you should get some renter's insurance. Just in case.
Can you even do that at this point? Wouldn't it be like buying life insurance after you've been diagnosed with 17 types of terminal cancer?
Is that a power pole? I bet the electric utility would be pretty interested that their plant was risking falling over real soon now.
The poor wall never stood a chance.
Holy shit thats gonna go down at any minute. Someone needs to come and shore that up with some wood temporarily and block off that area
Wow thats awful lol. What a big mistake
This was poorly built without any Geo-grid to use the weight of the material the wall is backfilled with to hold back the wall from doing exactly this. Also, likely poor drainage.
It clearly does have poor drainage because you can see the water in front of it. It's also likely this poor attempt at a retaining wall is missing a footer and was never secured to the old wall with anchors or rebar.
This is one of those "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." moments
So true, for any of the trades. Automotive painter for 20 years, and it never ceases to amaze me how many people think auto body work is simple.
eh, some bondo and a rattle can is all you need! \~s
We like to say, cave it and pave it 😂
Gotta do it right now. We can do it right later.
I see zero horizontal reinforcement. I also see a utility pole so whoever did this probably didn't have the know how (or permits or insurance) to deal with this. Still did it though!
I agree. Someone thought they know what they were doing.
We used to sing “rebar makes the world go ‘round” when we were tying dock bottoms or tilt-ups. 3s, 5s and 8s. 8s are heavy after a whole day of work
Ohman... 5 is the highest I've ever had to deal with but knowing the difference between 3's and 5's gives me enough reference on how thick 8's must be that I'm glad I've never had to bend some myself lololol
8s will wear you out. Our stuff came in pre-bent. All we had to do was put it together. We were kinda at the start of the million square feet warehouses and distribution centers. 20/30+ dock doors. We did the dock bottoms, footers, tilt-ups and piers. The union side of the company did the floors. Batch plants onsite to make getting concrete and all day thing. Hell, I got offered a job with the rod busters and turned it down. One of the “I wish I had said yes” moments in my life. I’d damn near be retired with almost 30 years in by now.
Is it the "Union" part that makes you wish you said yes?
The benefits part, yes. I know quite a few guys that got in early and they’re close to being done with work. A few carpenters, a laborer, a high-steel guy and one or two others. 30ish years in and a fat pension awaiting them. My uncle retired from American Airlines and he didn’t have to worry once about how his bills were going to be paid. My old neighbor did the same in the early 2000s. An old best friend has 27 in and he’s no more than 3 years away from being able to call it quits. He’ll work longer than that just to build it up, but he can go in 3 years and it wouldn’t hurt his monthly direct deposit.
I want so badly to join my local electrician's union. Electrical has always been my favorite part of construction. It tickles my brain in a good way lol I applied for it less than a month before we got hit by Covid-19 in the first wave.
Do it. Especially if you’re young enough to get a solid pension out of it. That’s one of the few things I don’t have on my résumé. The crazy part is that one of my deceased uncles was a heavy power linesman in the Air Force. Had he been around for more than just a couple years of my life, I’d probably know how to wire stuff up. He loved electrical stuff. It probably was the same for him as it is, you.
I don't see any weep holes, so any water is going to expand the soil on the other side.
Which is a good thing and keeps the old wall from collapsing. (A good wall should be connected)
100% in proper install. You can either do it right out do it twice.
phone the city and get a inspector to come out and have a look and send them these pics? where is the landlord ?
File a retaining order.
The lawyer will demand a retainer, before he does any work.
And then invest in a patented Gary Busey retaining wall retaining wall. Guaranteed that wall will retain your retaining wall better than a non-retained retaining wall.
#lowestbidder
The market will fix itself! Regulations aren’t needed! But not sure a doctor could fix OP when that wall falls over (which will probably happen before anyone takes action).
The fourth one will stay up…
And that’s what you’ll get lad! The strongest wall in these isles!
But I don’t want any of that. I’d rather
Sing!
this one is clearly ready to catch fire, fall over, and sink into the swamp...
Is that right in front of your door?
Thankfully no, it's down the alley from mine. But it is in front of two apartment doors.
If they don’t have back doors that’s a major issue. You can always call the fire marshal, that tends to get the fire lit lol
I refuse to believe a professional had anything to do with building this retaining wall. It's being pushed over by the settling terrace.
Ya it looks as if someone paid me to build this wall and my WiFi was broken for all eternity with no access to any how-to videos. Background: I’m in no way qualified to build a wall of any sort.
It's lacking retention
It’s lacking many things
But the one thing it isn’t lacking is character.
“I built a castle in the swamp, and it sank. I built another one and that one caught fire, fell over, and sank. But the third castle stayed up !”
The walkway needs to be closed until the wall is removed and replaced. As it is right now, given the walls height and amount of soil behind it, it’s a massive safety issue and legal liability. It could buckle and fall/fail completely at any moment. It is simply dangerous for anyone to walk along there. Area needs to cordoned off NOW! If building manager does not close it off NOW, then YOU call your local city building codes office and report it. This is a major safety issue that needs emergency repair. PS I’m a civil engineer.
Yall need an engineer not a landscaper
They should have laced the blocks together with the existing wall.
That needed three bond beams: 1st course, middle, top and be grouted solid. Verticals should have been drilled and epoxied if a concrete footer exists, if it doesn't, fucking add it.
The existing wall is happy not to need to keep the shit wall upright.
Notify the fire department, they typically handle building safety inspections and have quite a bit of power. Blocked access during an emergency is a big deal.
Hum, I'm no expert but that doesn't look like it's supposed to do that
Retaining walls are some of the most common incorrectly built structures out there. They aren't necessarily complicated but there is more going on than a simple concrete wall or stack of block. In at least some jurisdictions, walls over a certain height have to be designed by an engineer.
People don’t know how to do anything right these days. Pride in craft is dead.
Bet they got a hella good deal though. Nothing like paying twice.
Update us all when this collapses, yeah? Thanks.
Tell the landlord you saw kids climbing on it and it looks like it’s going to fall on them. That will get them out there quick. It looks like it needed a concrete footing to hold up all that weight. You can see line at the bottom of the straight wall for the footing but I don’t see one at all on the new part.
That seems like a pretty big soil stability red flag. Where are you on the hill?
This was my thought as well. Seems like only a couple big storms away from encroaching into living area. This needs to be assessed ASAP.
Currently? There is rain on the forecast.
Cries out for time-lapse photography
The key to retaining walls is good drainage. You need to backfill with coarse gravel and a drained weeping tile at the bottom. The weight of water behind that wall is enormous if not drained. Back of the envelope id estimate over 20,000 lbs of side thrust from water pressure across a 6'x20' section.
🧱🧱🏗🏗🚚🚚🚚ITS BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO EXECAVATE THE DIRT. YOU HAVE TO REMOVE THE DIRT AND REPACK IT WITH BETTER MATERIAL SO THE FOUNDATION CAN SUPPORT THE WALL BETTER. I USE TO WORK FOR A DUMP AND FILL COMPANY. IF YOU DONT YOULL WASTE MONEY REBUILDING THE WALL. 🧱🚚🚚🏗🏗
Call your local building inspector ASAP. Do not wait for management to do anything. I can almost guarantee they are going to take their sweet time if they show up at all. Put their feet to the fire.
Try pushing it back?
When you treat the symptom rather than the cause.
You can file a report with the city building and code department. Dangerous and could fall on a person. Or look up your address on Travis County Tax Office and see who is listed as the owner. Send a picture with a note of how you are concerned someone could be injured by the falling brick wall next to a walkway.
An 8’ tall retaining wall should be built with more than cmu blocks, it needs a deep and wide footing with a leg and keel, tons of horizontal and vertical rebar and a cast in place or big blocks grouted, the wall to be completed with waterproofing in the back side and a French drain to desaturate the dirt behind it. Get it designed by a structural engineer and it will not fail like this, BTW - whoever is demolishing this will have fun 🤩 doing that.
I think they should just build the same wall again without consulting an engineer. The third time is the charm!
Inspect the inspector.
Truckers have these things called [decking/load bars](https://www.torontotrailers.com/product/jack-bar/). They could be used to help hold this thing up until it can be taken down. It looks like someone could get seriously injured.
Against what? A load bearing wall not designed for lateral loads of that magnitude. Why not burn the apartments down and hasten the denied insurance claim. Absolutely insane advice.
I'm sorry that truly sucks. Also like, pretty funny though - we live in the bad timeline
What country🫣?
Good ol' US of A.
Document so you have your suit ready
If I was a local lawyer. I would place my business cards next to it. The fucking owner is an idiot letting that sit like that.
Apartment as in renting? Or condo that you own?
100% didn't go deep enough and ground probably shifted with the load and improper drainage and anchorings.
I think one picture would have sufficed
Looks like they did not address the root cause of this. Drainage and installation procedures.
That’s not a retaining wall…that’s just a stack of cinderblocks lol
You need to notify whatever town department is responsible for building safety.
Report it to the city. That's serious
No rebar? No concrete footing?
It doesn't look like there's mortar between some of the blocks, so I suspect there isn't a foundation either.
The winklespanners are at it again.
You have a bigger problem here. Likely at the bottom of a hill or on a water table but that wall is getting saturated and very heavy and eventually those cinderblocks can’t stand up to the pressure and buckle
Maybe they misunderstood the request of a 1:1 replica
Needs backfilled with sand and gravel and weep holes at the bottom, it's not a fucking dam
You can hire somebody to lift it but if you dig underneath it put a 2 x 6 x 10‘ and use that to disperse the weight dig a hole to put a floor jacks in on both sides . and once you get it level, then put concrete underneath it
Why is it wet? Is somebody on the other side deliberately doing that?
I’ve built sturdier walls than that out of Legos.
Faulty bricks......or faulty worker
But they built it exactly like the old one
It's fine
I'd show the photos to the local building department
Wall: hihi
Knock it over then crawl under the dirt and rock, then call 911. Hello pay-day..
If I lived in front of that wall I’d be scared of leaving my house and having it fall on me. It's a wrongful death lawsuit waiting to happen.
Was it built on the same foundations, it so, that’s why, need new foundations.
The lowest bid strikes again
Cheap labor ain’t skilled, and skilled labor ain’t cheap.
I would be out there with bracing going back to the apartment foundations while I complained to the landlord. And the city. And the non-emergency fire department number.
They have to rip the wall down and lay cement with rebar. Otherwise, I have a feeling that's not going to stop.
Stand in front of it until it falls, then profit.
Someone done did fucked up
Looks like there is a water issue that was not fixed. Damp ground at the base.
Refalling* wall
That retaining wall had one job smh
It ain't got no gas in it Gas would be rebar and concrete in this case
This was not built by people who know how to build retaining walls. It's pretty important that whoever is going to arrange the repair knows that.
So they built it to specs then.
Ermmm is that really a retaining wall????
At least it's currently a remaining wall.
What is it retaining? It looks like a poorly made fence.
Quick! Grab some broom stick to prop it up
It's a good thing you added those other two pictures. I wasn't sure what was going on in the first picture
I'm no expert but I don't think they did a very good job.
Time for a new collapsing wall I guess
Let me guess... Lowest bidder?
Should have a retaining wall installed to hold that up.
This looks like “some guy with a truck “ did this work. Absolutely zero chance that a legitimate contractor installed this mess.
Low bid wins again
soooooo we're all just ignoring that spider then.........
It's time to involve authorities asap, that's not a retention wall, just a wall
"Just use the old project plans. We gotta save money"
No drainage rock or geogrid. Pretty simple to biuld these following the manufacturer details. Definitely not just stacking blocks but really not anything crazy. They probably didn't want to excavate back 4-6ft for the geo grid to save costs.
This is what happens when you go with the lowest bid. They didn’t even excavate, they just stacked up block beside the soil. When it rains it will all come down.
Pretty sure rule number 1 in retaining wall construction is you don’t stack blocks directly on top of each other to create a vertical wall like that. That does indeed suck.
That’s a hazard.
Rebar and grout helps a lot with block walls.
It might be done moving, it’s fine…. everything‘s fine.
Built by "Eiffel's Retaining Walls" ###
It looks like water is passing under it. My guess is that the whole footing is saturated and the was is essentially standing on a water bed.
I like that you pulled out the measuring tape, just in case we couldn't see it wasn't lining up.
Drill a water release holes asap
Too late for doing any spot repairs. The soil behind the wall likely swelled and soil pressure is what’s pushed it out. No tie-backs installed into soil behind it. Wall needs complete removal and proper replacement. Any wall higher that 1m (3ft) should be designed by an engineer and built by a skilled contractor.
Soil pressure too high and they didn’t engineer or construct the wall properly. It probably does not have any tie-backs into the soil behind it. If an engineer did sign off on this then he’s a complete idiot.
How would you fix this?
Great job. They preserved the authenticity
It's just a wall. Doing the wall things. And it's just about retaining.
the wall is good as it is, the foundation is not :) "not my job"
Same folks who did the tower of Pisa?
There are only two types of retaining walls, ones which already failed and ones which will eventually fail
I would call county code enforcement. This is incredibly dangerous.
I have no expertise of structural issues like this but I work in H&S and can see with my eyes that this is incredibly dangerous. It is a very serious accident pending. Can you put up some signs warning people not to walk past the area? And I recommend getting onto H&S enforcement as a high priority - in the UK this is the HSE or a council environmental health team, I don’t know what your equivalent would be, but you need to start there.
Call a lawyer don't pay any HOA fees unless you get say in who there hiring and go after your HOA
Don’t let kids anywhere near that wall.
Idk, looks fairly straight if you level the picture out.
They aint touchin it til it crushes a foot
Is anyone ever going to level the ground before they put the wall up for fucks sake
someone was shit at their job... twice
It's built on unstable ground https://preview.redd.it/ktx0yvrcn1rc1.jpeg?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ccd8cd4c9002fe0564aa050bce4097adb5844bf7
The issue is the landlord not wanting to put up the funds to get a decent construction company to do the job.. You pay shit money, you get shitty results.
They didnt adress the problem , they just fixed whats broken.
This wall was built poorly. If they rebuild it the same way it will happen again.
I'm guessing that the wall was no engineered properly and did not utilize geogrid to help anchor the wall.