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Thanks. I'd like to get some options on what people think is the correct fix. Do you chip it out and shotcrete over it? Bulk it out? Form and pour structural grout/hydraulic cement? Form and pour normal concrete and add a few inches to the thickness of the wall?

Tha That weeping is from that water I put in the holes to try and see if they were very big. Turns out they are, one of those cracks follows a pipe that is imbedded in the wall. The other appears to be on a cold joint. Yes, reo I mean rebar. The first holes I saw were the bar chairs as isolated...

For the outside wall we hadn't decided. Probably would have left if off form but might render it.

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The back half is in ground shot against rock. The front wall on a deep pier footing. The out of ground section that is highest is basically hollow. It seems the shotcrete did not get past the reo in alot of that area, they were rushing this section as the truck was going off. Put alot of water...

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