A homeowners Nightmare

[Music] Oh no. Oh, the sounds of destruction. You guys see all that right there? Custom door delete, man. That hits a special special spot in the back of your brain. Well, good morning everybody. Uh, starting a new site today. It's pool demo. I haven't done a pool demo in a few years. I think the last one that I did was with the Volvo and me and Tim got that thing buried in what was the deep end of the pool. It's been a little bit. Yep. Uh that's it. Starting a pool demo. Let's get to it. [Music] All right. So, here's what we got. The other guys aren't going to be out for a little bit, so we're going to start cutting the liner. And luckily, we don't got to be too careful in the grass and stuff like that, cuz this whole backyard is getting redone, which is nice. The only spot we really got to try to dodge is that corner of the patio there, but we got a bunch of plywood we're going to lay down. Should be good. I don't know why Sam had to bring up that Volvo skid loader. It's the worst piece of trash I've ever sat my butt in. I could not sell that thing fast enough. I could barely get it to a brand new piece of equipment to drive down the street without breaking down. If you want to have a good experience with a Volvo skid loader, what I'm going to recommend you do is go to a Volvo piece of heavy equipment dealer that has them, go into it, try it out, and then walk away without ever spending a dime on one or buying one. And then as you're walking away, congratulate yourself on the best decision you've probably ever made. Because if you had boughten that Volo skid loader, you would be regretting it. They are not worthwhile. But that's not what today's video is about. We're going to be demoing a swimming pool and doing it the right way. What do I mean by the right way? Well, we'll go over that a little later on. [Music] When you demolish a swimming pool, you don't push it in, you pull it out. Everything has to get removed. But not every contractor understands this principle. And a lot of them, even if they do understand it, it takes extra time. It takes extra work, extra expense, and a lot of them cut corners and do things the worst way. If you've hired a contractor to come in and do a demolition and you see them burying things underground, that's your first clue that you better watch them. You better understand what's on your permit. And if pushing and burying debris in the back of your yard is not what you thought you were getting, then you better fire them because just because they're doing it doesn't mean it's right. I had gotten Well, I didn't get hired. I did not get hired to demolish a house and a swimming pool by a contractor that had hired me to do all of the other work on all of his other sites. And a couple months went by and he called me up. He was furious with me. He's like, "Stan, do you remember that house and that swimming pool you were supposed to demolish and remove? Well, you buried the swimming pool and left me a hazardous sight, and now the city has completely shut down all of my projects." And this guy was so furious. I felt like he was spitting on me right through the phone. And I let him go off for a while because I hadn't done the job for him. And I said, "Hey, do you remember that was the one job you didn't hire me for?" And what that taught me was what my competition is doing. And I learned by starting to watch between the lines that a lot of times what you homeowners are thinking you're getting and what contractors are actually giving you aren't the same thing. Just buy or beware. Don't let people bury things in your backyard like that because it can set you up for failure down the road. 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I built this website for you guys and I'm going to ask you to go check it out because we got some huge, huge stuff cooking over at the Dirt Monkey shop. It's worth checking out. Now, let's jump back into this. I hate doing this, but I got to clarify something. You see that material he's puncturing with them forks? That has to stay behind. It's vermiculite. And think of the plants that you put your your plants in. You know that white fluffy weird stuff they put in the soil. Basically, it's the same stuff, but what they do with this is they use it as the underllayment below vinyl line swimming pools. So, if you actually physically reach down and grabbed a handful of it, it would be a chunk at first. And if you stood there for a few minutes and just did this with your hands, it basically turns into a powder and disappears. So, that stuff must be punctured to make sure that we've got good water penetration. But physically removing it would mean that we're physically removing some of the on-site soils that are compacted below the swimming pool and that that could be detrimental to the overall swimming pool. So I want I know it's confusing and I said everything gets removed. Well, this is the only thing that is not part of the everything. But your pool backing, the concrete, the piping, the the plumbing, the the the heater, the filter, all of the other stuff does get removed. The vermiculite, that stuff in the bottom, that's okay. as the rest of it hangs up in the trailer. That's some sticky film, [Music] man. That's good. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay, camera's about to die, so we got to talk fast. Uh, end of day numero do. Good morning, everybody. Back out on the pool demo. We were rained out on Friday. We got like over an inch, which was nice, but [Music] And then We packed her up a little too good there. Uh so yeah, and Tim's got the pump out on his pool demo. So we're just uh we're just going to skim this off until we hit something solid and then uh work from there. I can't believe that this is still wet. And it's not just wet. There's like standing like actual like inch and a half of water in the bottom of this thing. And it was a good job at packing it up. It was like 80° all weekend, too. I can't believe it didn't dry out. Oh well. Small hurdle we're facing today. Like like a 18in hurdle. Not not one of them super high regular ones. So with that puddle we had, I got that mucked out. We got down to dry solid fill, but the fill that's coming in is kind of wet, which doesn't really matter. it'll it'll pack up and stuff like that. But with that and working on where that puddle was, we got to be I got to be real careful about not overwork the material when I'm packing it so that it doesn't start sumping water up out of this. So, we're just uh we're we're going to pack it. We're just going to be careful packing it so we don't over so we don't go wild and start sumping a bunch of water out of there and then really making problems for ourselves. My dumb ass forgot to pick this back on after lunch, but y'all really didn't miss too much. So, we're just going to keep filling in a hole. What Sam is t talking about is if he packs and there's water way down here and he's packing up here, that packing starts to to draw the water up. So, there's a certain amount of packing you can do. Now, let me just throw this out there. If it's a commercial site, you can't overpack it. 97% standard proctor density is what most commercial sites like to aim for. A lot of times typically we'll hit at 102 103% standard proctor density which is 2 or 3% over 100% and a lot of people are like oh you can't do that. Well that's because they're telling you that they don't understand geoengineering. Yes you can absolutely get to 102 103% standard proctor density. It's physically possible. You can do it. It's not a big thing. But you can overpack in someone's backyard. That's when you want to hit at around 95% standard proctor density. If you're in someone's backyard and they want to have a garden or they want to grow grass and you've overpacked that thing, it's going to be like concrete. Even though it's dirt, even water won't penetrate it if it's packed too much. So, you got to loosen up that soil to allow water penetration to percolate through because when you get to the top, those roots of the plants and everything they want to grow and have their green grass, they're going to hit that dirt and go, "Oh, we water can't penetrate. We can't penetrate." You loosen it up. You allow it all to move and groove. 95% standard proctor density in someone's backyard. 97% on a commercial site or just do it atund 100 plus percent. And when they tell you you can't do that, all they're doing is showing you their ignorance. All right, last day on the pool demo here. Got some grading, a little bit more fill coming in here, and then we just got to clean up the rest of the garbage. So, here's something humbling, right? Um, like I said before, I haven't done too many pool demos. This is the first one that I was doing mostly by myself and stuff. Um, with that, uh, I'm kind of, when it comes to stuff like that, I'm like a slowest, smooth, smooth is fast kind of guy. You get faster each day. Longer you do it. If you know, you know. Me and Zach were scrapping down the last load of crap and Alex hopped in the skid steer. This boy got this subgrade almost completely set in like 15 minutes. And that would have taken me a lot longer than 15 minutes. So that boy hopped in the skid at like 1150. It's been 27 minutes. I'm not even kidding you. That would have taken me like 2 hours. Hour and a half. It would have taken me like an hour and a half. Look at that boy [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. That man's going to have his whole subet in probably another 15 minutes. [Music] [Applause] All right, end of Hey, whatever. It's hot. I'm tired. Subgrades all in. Just got to kick that black dirt around a little bit through there. We'll get the hydro bucket out here tomorrow. That's uh why we didn't get to that bit today. Tim's wrapping up another pool demo with the hydro bucket. So, we'll get that spread right away in the morning. Throw some seed down and that'll be that. All right. Good morning everybody. So that last little bit on that pool demo, you're just going to have to use your imagination. Imagine that pile of black dirt spread all nice and even and flat and covered in grassy cuz me and Zach got pulled off on another job. We like moved seven tons of rock in wheelbarrows up a wild hill. So anyways, that's that. On to the next one. Heat.