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Compacting Class 5 Base & Building Corner Wall

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Building a flagstone wall and prepping for pavers day1

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What happens here

After the Class 5 base material is spread, a plate compactor (powered by a Honda engine) is used to thoroughly compact the entire area of the parking pad. This ensures a dense, stable, and long-lasting foundation for the pavers. While the compaction is ongoing, the team addresses the tricky corner section of the existing wooden retaining wall. They manually build a new layer of flagstones underneath the old wooden structure, carefully placing each stone to interlock and provide additional support. A tarp is laid down to keep the new Class 5 base separate from any excavated spoils, preventing cross-contamination.

Goal: Ensure a fully compacted base for the parking pad and construct the challenging retaining wall corner.

Tools and materials

  • Flagstones — Building the retaining wall corner
  • Gloves — Protecting hands
  • Plate Compactor Honda engine — Compacting the Class 5 base material
  • Shovel — Moving stones and soil
  • Tarp — Preventing cross-contamination between materials

What they say

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it's the exact same material as the recycle classify but this is made out of limestone it consists of three quarter inch rock which binds that will compact down so although it looks different it's the same material in essence while Alex runs and gets a bucket that fits the boy start tackling that tough retaining wall corner it's like how many of your five years ago I decided I couldn't find anyone to do it oh really really that's surprising to build the retaining wall underneath the existing retaining wall employees use a tarp so that they don't cross contaminate the excavation spoils with the new class five that goes down they only excavate out as much as they have to to install the new stones to help support the old wall actually they're old stones

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