Toying with shop and apt into "hill"

[dichdoc]

Been lurking for around a year and finally at a point where I'm getting bids on building a 30x60 building with 1320 sq ft apt on top. The bottom would be seperated into half welding shop and half storage. We live on a 30 degree slope and the previous land owner had dug out the area for fill for the road and to build a barn which never happened. We're looking at a 20' concrete wall in the back to hold the mountain back. I haven't gotten that bid back yet but at roughly $110 a yard it might give me chest pain. The stakes are hard to see in the pics but the right side is to the right and above the trailer and the left side is just into the grass. The view pics are from where the apt would be. It won't let me post the dxf the floor plans I sketched up are in I'll try and convert them and post them up. Feel free to comment on any and all. Travis

 

[HOTFR8]

WOW. I had to excavate for my Shed / Garage but nothing like that.
Good luck with it.

See the enclosed car trailer ( mid left of Pic ) in the background, well the roof of that was original ground height the shed was sunk into the block. Mainly to make for level ground but to hide it from the ( whinging ) neighbors. A fence post can just be seen top front of trailer, it is at original height and with trees to hide the shed from the ( whinging ) neighbors.

Photo was taken from ground level on the drive way to house that is higher up as ground slopes away.

Castlemaine is a Gold area so the rock here is very interesting, many lovely colors as you can see in the photo. Until the day I built here I had never seen a Back hoe with a Pick end attachment to dig a trench.

 

[oldgoat]

Would this apt be for you or for rental? I would wonder since it might make a difference on insurance and liability having a weld shop on the bottom floor. Either way I would want to make sure that I had a good escape and warning system just in case. Also what about mudslides? With that big a hill behind it has it been looked from a engineering standpoint of what woud be needed in case part of it came down? I think it would be a great setup and the scenery would be great, but was just thinking of the what ifs.

 

[Herb]

Yes, the hill moving could be a problem, that would be hard to speculate on not knowing the typical weather conditions in your area,. I would be mostly concerned with controlling all the surface and subsurface water that will be coming off of and out of that hill.

 

[rotus7]

Issues aside....what a great view!!! Beautiful country up there.

 

[dichdoc]

The apt would be a rental, I don't need the apt but I NEED it to get out of the hill. The land is stable here no real problems. It's pretty dry although I would put in drain pipe around the exterior. My house is down hill to the right about two hundred feet so I hope for no mud slides etc. This is old Coal mine country rail road grades all over. Shipped the Coal the the Anaconda Copper Company over by Butte until about 1903. TB

 

[HOTFR8]

Issues aside....what a great view!!! Beautiful country up there.

I did mean to say that as well. Nice locatation. Please keep the photos coming.