The site is not easy to access. The drive is several miles back into the woods, up and down steep hills which will not be pleasant to get to this winter. The house location is a small knoll that we have to squeeze every bit of this 4000 sqft house from side to side.
Rock retaining wall to support back yard. The hurdle is that the slope is so dramatic we have to find a happy medium so we build up the back yard and cut down the front yard.
Of course we hit rock in the middle of our site. We couldn't blast with dynamite because the client has another cabin close on the property so we had to use a powder product that when mixed with water it expands and cracks the rock. A hole is drilled in the rock and the powder mixture is poured inside. It works but it is a slow process.