Emphasize Quality and Proper Installation Over Cost-Cutting

stop out to the job while the other company was building the retaining wall what I found they were using was CMU units concrete masonry units these were hollow blocks that were designed for foundation walls they had no base material at all they were just raw raw dogging it putting it right on the dirt they had zero drainage a grip behind it and there was no connection method from one block to the other block this is what the difference is is a contractor that cares is going to take all the proper steps and here's why you contractors should care you are responsible for anything you build it has to be built right for up to 10 years you don't have to give a warranty if you build a retaining wall and that wall fails and they have a licensed engineer come out and certify that you did not Build That Wall correctly you are still responsible for that retaining wall up to 10 years later you have to build it right right out of the gate it's cheaper to do it right in the beginning than to try to scramble and fix something later on don't do that but those are the five reasons why retaining walls fail let's go back over them from one to five one more time number five using cheap blocks Hollow from the bottom or any other kind of a cheat block that has an inferior connection method number four using the wrong wrong drainage and wrong base material using pck versus a 3/4 clear angular stone pck is usually cheaper it's usually easier to get it's easier to handle it's easier to shovel and a lot of times it's what contractors migrate towards because it's just plain easier building retaining walls is not easy stuff number three geogrid not using geogrid when you need geogrid not compensating for the fact that you have have a search charge on your wall if it's over 4 foot tall you're going to have to uh go toward geog Grid or at least look at do you need it or if it has a sear charge you will need Ria a geog grid this is sarch charge can be a slope onto a retaining wall or a search charge can be a building or a structure like you see or a parking lot on a retaining wall all those add additional weight to the retaining wall so i' compensating for that search charge number two compaction not understanding compaction having inferior compaction not using enough compaction it's all about compaction when you're building larger retaining walls make sure you're compacting the heck out of it compaction is cheap cheap cheap insurance so use use use it and number one caring cutting…