Continue Wall Construction and Initial Yard Re-Grading (Day 02 & 03)

video all right seeing us on neither of us notice that the camera had shut off it died it shut itself off yeah yeah but we got this all based in up to here and then we're going to get this corner done over here and then start back filling and building up what we got going on is it's not every one of them but it's enough where like they got a slant a little bit of a slant to the top so it's like what do you what do you level it off of I don't know it's just is what it is I guess but like come on now it's a problem we've been battling with yeah yeah y well he's doing that I'm going to start working up here on pulling this edging and the whole yard is all pitching towards the house so we're going to take this down level it off bring it up along side of the house Al so that way everything slopes away cuz we're not having water problems yet but as time tells for everything it can always get worse it can get better but it can also get worse right Sam oh it'll get it'll get worse and then it'll get even more worse how it goes so what Zach is talking about is the grades next to a house if this is the house the grades next to a house typically settle where the yard over here will be higher than the grade next to the house and it's very typical around houses that have full basements and it happens because of two reasons the number one reason you'll see this grade settle is it was never compacted when the basement was backfilled so on newer Construction it's really typical to see it but now if your house has been around for 5 to 100 years it's also typical to see it because all of the runoff from the roofs tend to fall here and then if a landscape company has come in and put edging here really what that edging does is it acts as effective barrier to trap the water so instead of the water falling off the roof and quickly shedding away a lot of times it falls goes within this Landscaping Zone then gets trapped and then migrates its way back so problems over time tend to get worse what we need to do is fix that grade but we've got to be super careful because we can't bring the grade up too much because there's what's called a sill plate so right here this is the top block of your basement of your foundation wall they take a board and they slap it right on the top and that's what we call a s plate it should be green treated if it's done right and then your stick framing goes up from there so it rests on that s plate well we don't want that s plate and the dirt to match…