On Apr 12, 2:25*pm, "chaniarts" wrote:
Ike wrote:
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:31:31 -0700 (PDT), "hr(bob) "
wrote:

On Apr 12, 12:20 pm, Joe wrote:
On Apr 12, 12:15 pm, Ike wrote:

My neighbor and I have a problem. We have a common cinder block
wall between our yards. We also have a cinder block wall that runs
along an alley, perpendicular to the common wall. Both walls are
about 5' high. The alley wall is pulling away from the common
wall. It has bowed out by 2" at the top of the wall.

I beleive this is due to the Mexican Palm he planted back in the
back corner of his yard. He planted it 2' from each wall. When it
was small, no big deal. But now it is 20' tall with a 30" base and
is less than 6" from the wall. But it is not directly touching the
back wall so neither of us know for sure if the palm is the
problem. He is willing to have the palm removed.

Is there some way to push or pull the back wall up against the
common wall like it was when new? I was thinking a 2" wide by 3'
long steel C-channel as a brace on the ooutside back wall. Drill
holes in it every 8". Then drill deep holes in the cinder blocks
and screw some tapcon cement bolts in to see if we can pull the
wall back so that it once again is touching the common wall. But I
have never tried this before and wonder if the cinder blocks can
take the stress. They may be too weak and brittle.

Any other brilliant ideas?

Cut down he tree and wait a year or so for the roots to rot away.
Then deal with the wall if the soil subsidence has left a gap.

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Is the wall puling away at the bottom also, or is it tight at the
bottom and the wall is leaning away at the top?

It is tight at the bottom, pulled away at the top. Sort of like
something is tipping it over. None of the other neighbors walls are
having this problem as far as I can determine. The common wall on the
opposite side of my backyard adjacent with my other neighbor is fine.
There are not any palms or trees in that location.

it's pushing against one side of the footing. propping it up only delays the
fall over date. you won't be able to push it back vertical.

you need to take out the tree, take out the roots, straighten out the wall,
fill it back in, and hope that it doesn't retip because of settling under
the footing.

the proper way to do this is to remove the wall, take out the tree, take out
the roots, build a correct footing, and rebuild the wall.

or push it vertical, sell the house, and hope that it's not a windy day when
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If you could get under the tilting wall and pour some sort of a
corrected footing, you might postpone things for a few years