Laying First Course of Flagstone Wall

those though so this dark looking material that the wall is going down on is called recycled class-five and this is a combination of both asphalt and concrete that have been ground up the largest pieces in it are you typically 3/4 inch in size and it's grown all the way down to a fine powder and that acts as a binding agent so when you compact this this material stiffens up hardest concrete although we don't normally use this as base under retaining walls on a small project like this it'll make to the building a natural flagstone retaining wall like this is kind of like putting together a jigsaw puzzle where none of the pieces are actually meant to fit together you've just got to get them close some of the time all right okay now so we'll fit in here quitter typically a flagstone wall like this is a lot more difficult to install because none of the pieces actually are built to go together so it takes a little bit more interpretation of the stones when you're installing one of these things but on the flip side of that there are a lot more forgiving at the same time your bottom base course with natural stones don't have to line up to the same precision that you would use if you were building the same wall out of modular block so his blame lays out the songs Sam is running and grabbing him new ones and occasionally telling a story along the way I found out something cool that I didn't know this weekend I'm super allergic to those n95 s yeah I had one of them I had it on for well you know I was D spider in the basement and stuff I had it on for like three days yesterday I woke up my face was all purple and itching and stuff like that and then throughout the day from where I had it on you know I was like through here was just swelling up his all purple and stuff it took some benadryl and luckily that helped but dude I was looking like a monkey wait so these are actually scraps that the customer had left behind from projects she done around her house luckily she had enough big and small pieces combined that allowed us to build something that actually functioned and Blaine likes to do little touches of his own I got a bunch of stuff for the butterflies not so much