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Initial Excavation for Wall Footing

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Building a flagstone wall and prepping for pavers day1

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What happens here

Using a mini excavator (Bobcat 325) and hand tools such as a shovel and rake, a trench is dug along the side of the house where the new flagstone retaining wall will be constructed. Extreme care is taken during this excavation to avoid disturbing the hyper-compacted sub-material from the old driveway, as maintaining its stability is crucial for the foundation of the future paver parking pad. The depth of the trench is determined by the required elevation for the retaining wall, which ties into the final paver height.

Goal: Prepare the trench for the flagstone wall base without over-digging or disturbing sub-soil.

Tools and materials

  • Mini Excavator Bobcat — Digging the trench for the retaining wall
  • Rake — Smoothing the excavated soil
  • Shovel — Fine-tuning the trench depth and edges

What they say

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with those guys to hold all this black dirt planting area back and then we're gonna turn this little area from here to the street you know a parking area the wall and parking pad will not be connected so each will be built separately this area was a driveway for nearly a hundred years so the material that's under there is hyper compacted so they don't want to disturb it any more than they have to how far down do we got to dig up here then for the wall although the wall in the paper parking spot are going to be completely separate Blaine still wants to do a rough cut on the top elevation of the pavers because that will determine the bottom elevation of the retaining wall he's got to be careful not to over dig or go too deep he doesn't want to disturb the subsoil so big ones on the bottom obviously yeah all right I'm gonna start starting to do those though

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