Install and Level the Class 5 Base Material

almost every project you ever work on so you got to be real careful about how picky you are about that base material and since we're talking about base let's talk specifically about the material that we're using in this video this is called recycled class five and what this is this is actually repurposed concrete and asphalt that's been torn out of somebody's driveway or roadway been brought to a crusher plant and then it's ground up the largest particles are three-quarter inch in size and it goes all the way down to dust and this material has just enough clay binder so that when you compact it it packs up solid like concrete the screed pipes are nothing more than three-quarter inch black pipe bought from any big box store they're laid into ground and then everything is compacted and leveled off from those so the bottom of the next step will be the exact same height as the top of the previous step [Music] now one of the things i kind of breezed over is the fact that you will see us almost always do multiple lifts even when it's not called for in this case this is only an eight inch stair height tread but we still put the material in and two lifts one four inch lift and a second four inch lift that means that we're going over the entire area twice which gives us double the amount of chance to make sure that we're hitting everything although we could put this lifted in one single lift we found it's better to be safe than sorry put it in two lifts and compact it twice versus putting one fat lift compacted all once and hope you didn't miss any areas [Music]