What Does It Actually Cost to Rebuild in Altadena After the Fire?
A look at current construction costs for Altadena fire rebuilds, what goes into the pricing, and where engineering fits into the total budget.
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How to Avoid a Stormwater Sump Pump on Your Altadena Fire Rebuild
Many Altadena fire rebuilds are told they need a sump pump. Here's how we sometimes show the site drains the same way it did before the fire and skip the pump entirely.
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Driving Through Altadena After the Fire - Seeing First-hand What We're Building From
A drive through Altadena to see the aftermath of the fire, and a first look at a project we're engineering - drainage plans and hydrology report for a hillside residential rebuild.
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Altadena Fire Rebuild Drainage Plans
An Altadena fire rebuild drainage plan for a lot with a 10ft front-to-back drop and existing pool. We raise the house, re-grade the driveway, and add rain gardens to keep post-development Q similar to pre-fire levels.
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Sump Pump Design in Altadena - LA County Standards
When does an Altadena property need a sump pump? We follow LA County standards for design and try to avoid pumps whenever gravity drainage can work instead.
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Altadena Fire Rebuild Sheet Flow
We are taking over for another Civil Engineer to bring construction costs down on some Altadena fire rebuild drainage plans. This particular lot we were able to sheet flow the entire property.
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Changing Drainage Pattern to Remove Sump Pump in Altadena
We have another Altadena drainage plan where the goal was to not use a stormwater sump pump. The way the lot sits the existing stormwater used to drain all from the top of curb at the street to the rear of the property.
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Altadena Fire Rebuild Manufactured Homes
Our next Altadena drainage plan is for a lot with manufactured homes, consisting of basically two ADU's. With the way this lot slopes and two smaller, separate structures, we are trying to save as much on construction costs as possible.
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Widening Driveway Apron for an Altadena Fire Rebuild
Another Altadena fire rebuild where the client also wanted to try to widen the driveway. These are pretty straightforward normally, but some of the older streets in Altadena have a concrete slab acting like a little bridge over the street flowline.
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Altadena Fire Rebuild Drainage Plans Continue to Go Out
A bit of back and forth still with LA County with our creative solutions to getting Altadena Drainage plans approved. Plan check wanted some minor modifications which is fair enough to bring the plastic lined rain gardens 5 feet off the property lines.
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Altadena Drainage Plans Being Approved
Its been an experience, but we are finally getting the latest batch of Altadena drainage plans approved by LA County. Our technique is to keep the existing drainage pattern so we don't have to install stormwater sump pumps.
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Altadena Multi-Unit Fire Rebuild Drainage Plans
This is our first sideways lot in Altadena, with the entrance on the West side and the topography slopes North to South. The goal is to drain as much stormwater to the street as possible using gravity.
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Altadena Fire Rebuild Drainage Plans - Insurance Question
Going through plan checks and getting the current requirements back in a correction, one of the projects had their insurance ask what code LA County is using to require drainage plans on some lots, and not on others.
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Drainage Plans in Altadena Fire Rebuild
This Altadena Drainage Plan is a corner lot fire rebuild. The proposed house sits in a similar location but we need to adjust the existing contours to keep 5% slope 10 feet from the structure at the top.
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Altadena Grading Plan to Remove Pool
Next up in the Altadena fire rebuilds is a grading plan to remove a pool. This will be our first pool removal plan in Altadena. This particular lot is a large one and the County is requiring a grading plan to remove the pool.
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Altadena Drainage Plans with Lined Rain Garden
We have another longer lot Altadena Fire Rebuild Drainage Plan. This lot, the front yard doesn't slope as heavily as the previous ones we have seen, which allows more room to slightly regrade the contours.
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Drainage Design Models in Altadena
LA County wants us to show earthwork numbers for the difference between the existing and proposed soil. Showing the contours in a 3d orbit view always looks interesting and a quick way to tell if the model is looking good or not.
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Altadena Drainage Plans
Any lot that sits on the North side of the block or sideways in Altadena is likely going to require drainage plans. Some South lots might require drainage plans as well.
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First Altadena Like for Like into Plancheck
Our first Altadena rebuild like for like project was pretty smooth. The idea was that the proposed house would be in nearly the same footprint as the existing now gone house.
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Grading and Drainage Solutions for Altadena's Distinct Landscape
Altadena, tucked beneath the San Gabriel Mountains, is a charming Los Angeles County community known for its scenic beauty and charming homes. Unlike the steep hillsides of nearby areas, Altadena's flatter terrain presents its own set of grading and drainage challenges.
Read MoreAltadena and SB9
Was doing some networking this week and getting to chit chat with Architects and developers about the fires has been most interesting.
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Rebuilding Altadena
Altadena first lot since the Eaton Fire, was sold recently on Calaveras Street for $100k above listing. Location and price wise this seems low to me, but also the buyer will have to wait a while before anything can happen.
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