Site Assessment and Initial Clearing

so we're at the beginning stages of a pool demolition in a backyard transformation project basically what we have is a new couple moved into a house and the swimming pool hey Evan how you doing buddy hey the swimming pool there's Evan he's the one that we're doing the work for the swimming pool is not fitting their lifestyle or their needs and so we're going to get rid of it and then we're going to completely change the backyard but this is our path in you can see we have absolutely no access to this site um so we've got a lot of trees to clear a lot of brush just to gain access to it and can believe me it doesn't smell pretty back here this is the swimming pool now what we're going to do is we're going to just completely tear this out and then regrade reslope and one of the things that we have here is a couple oak trees Tre we have a couple really nice mature oak trees we want to save those and to do that we're actually going to regrade the entire backyard and eliminate these retaining walls cuz these retaining walls as much as I love building retaining walls for people they're budget Busters and in this particular instance we should be able to regrade this yard and eliminate the retaining walls see the retaining walls were here because there was is a swimming pool and they wanted to save that oak tree and they wanted to have a flat area for the swimming pool and so you have to create that sharp line well with the pool gone we have one less restriction which allows us to change the grades which allows us to eliminate the need for the retaining wall so I'm going to show you that process one of the things that I want to point out in the back drop is this line of brush this is Buckthorn that's the oak tree but the rest of this is Buckthorn it's it's an invasive species uh nobody really wants it and so what we're going to do as part of this project we're going to go in and we're going to remove that entire shrub line clear it up clean it up we're not cutting it we're actually pulling it out by the roots even doing that isn't ensured that it's going to get all of the Buckthorn out but it's much better than cutting it cuz when you cut it cut Buckthorn all you do is you give it an opportunity for even faster growth because now it's got all this energy Down Below in the root system and it can just start sprouting up and spreads even faster so we go and pull it up yank it to do this job because we have limited access we're going to be using one of