Bought a lot with buried tree limbs

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Would the company that cleared the land be responsible for clean up of the limbs?

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1. Get the family of a loving pitbull to lay on the limbs
2. Have the pitbull be itself
3. Watch pitbull destroy everything in its path
4. ???
5. Profit

So I have a dumb question...what is bad about buried limbs?

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So I have a dumb question...what is bad about buried limbs?

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depends on how deep they are. If they are deep then they rot over time causing sinking on your house which cracks everything. Debris is bad under a house.

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So I have a dumb question...what is bad about buried limbs?

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Hold moisture and will eventually form a void under the ground. This is not good for a foundation.

OP, I had a similar situation and there’s not much you can do. It’s fairly common practice to bury them, although it’s dumb and I have no idea why. If the lot was marketed as “House pad ready” or “pad built”, you may have a better case against the contractor who built the house pad. If not, it’s just a shitty situation.

To the poster who asked about due diligence, it’s very unusual to dig or bore or anything on a residential lot to test for underground/foundation issues during the purchase process.

If you’re building the pad now, and it’s on top of this area, you’ll unfortunately have to just dig them up and replace with dirt.

Nope. You buy land “as is”.


It would be in your best interest to dig all that up because once they begin to rot, you pad will settle and crack.

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You didn’t do your due diligence and now looking for someone to blame it on?

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You want me to dig three feet all around the land before buying?

Post tension slab??

Since we are on slabs, why do we use red clay here in s.louisiana as fill but they use sand in NW Fl. Seems like sand would be cheaper than red clay.

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If you’re building the pad now, and it’s on top of this area, you’ll unfortunately have to just dig them up and replace with dirt.

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You should also notify your house foundation designer. The foundation footings are designed to be dug to a depth reaching "undisturbed soil" Obviously your lot has no undisturbed top soil. Many of those sinking houses in Kenner and Metairie were built on lots raised from the dirt they dug from the roads and placed over stumps. They may change the depth and width of the chain wall. I did this on my own because I build on an abandoned cypress mill property. Although the ground was as hard a rock I worried it just packed down over 85 years and it was unusably higher than surrounding property.