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Introduction and Problem Assessment

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The project begins with Stanley, Alex, Blaine, and Tim from Dirt Monkey Force introducing the task: regrading around several apartment buildings to resolve water problems. Alex explains the issue at one building, where winter frost heaves push the ground up, causing water to pool against the foundation. This leads to water entering underground apartments, necessitating the use of fans for drying. The solution involves 'shaving down' high spots and building up low spots to create a proper grade. Stanley outlines three typical solutions for water issues: grading (least intrusive), French drains, and foundation waterproofing.

Goal: Understand the project's scope and identify water drainage issues.

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it's a new day a new job site you guys and we got a big one going on here i think we're just switching tracks because we're gonna be on asphalt on and on basketball and uh alex wants to conserve our snow tracks i was just telling these guys i'm guessing because we're going to be on and off this asphalt you bid this job right yeah you want to walk me through what's going on with it so we got an idea can i wrap this up first absolutely you can hey blaine how you doing man i know it's been a while good to see you we got tim we got sam and we got our tim alex is going to be putting this rack on we're going to be starting a new job we got what nine buildings we're going to be going through here on this one and it's all about water drainage grading and control shedding water away building building it up along the building getting getting pitch away from can we go to a building and you can show me sure do you mind if the boss shows us no timo's out here too should i take a break alex huh can i take a break just a five minute break to go get over here so alex is actually the one that bid this one right yeah yeah so he's in he's been in training to to take care of more more uh you know more responsibilities so to speak so now we've got a bunch of underground apartments they're not completely underground but they're you know they're i don't know what do you call waist high when they're that far underground you can actually look at that one's here in the winter time due to thermal heat of the building this gets uh you know four feet out elevation stays the same out here where it's not getting any heat yep frost heaps ah and now it's pushing up and now he gets water sitting in here you can actually see he's got fans going working in there what we're doing is we're going to shave shave this down a little bit get this to pump out and we're going to build this up as high as we can kiss the bottom here get it pitching out but we might have to do a little more shaving on this one to get it to pitch we want to kind of compensate for the the frosty so even though it looks okay right now that's because it's the middle of july yeah it's probably settled back down it's settled back down more pairing over on some of these other ones so see it so we have three solutions that we typically walk through when somebody's saying that they're having a water problem the first solution we call it good better best or least intrusive to most intrusive with the three solutions the first…

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