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Continuing Wall Construction with Drainage and Backfill

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Crazy Neighbor Calls the Building Inspector on us

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What happens here

Continue building the retaining wall by adding successive courses of blocks, ensuring each block is clean, pins are properly installed, and alignment is checked with a string line. As the wall rises, incorporate a perforated drainage pipe (wrapped in fabric) behind the blocks to manage water runoff effectively. Backfill each lift with washed gravel and compact it thoroughly using a 150lb plate compactor to maintain stability and drainage. The excavator is used for heavy lifting and precise placement of blocks and gravel in strategic areas.

Goal: Construct the retaining wall progressively, adding blocks, drainage, and backfill while maintaining alignment and compaction.

Tools and materials

  • 150lb Plate Compactor Wacker Neuson — Compacting backfill layers
  • Bobcat 325 Mini Excavator Bobcat — Placing blocks and backfill materials
  • Kubota SVL 65 Skid Steer Kubota — Moving materials and equipment around the site
  • Perforated Drainage Pipe — Collecting and diverting water away from the wall
  • Retaining Wall Blocks — Building successive courses of the wall
  • Retaining Wall Pins — Interlocking blocks
  • Rubber Mallet — Seating pins
  • Shovel — Manual adjustments and spreading
  • String Line — Checking block alignment
  • Washed Gravel — Backfilling behind the blocks and drainage pipe

What they say

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themselves to all line up perfectly in a row like so. It's a tough Yeah. Yeah. Well, the homeowner decided to tackle this himself last year. Oh, I'm like, this is a big job to tackle by yourself. So, he ripped out almost all the timber and he had the block sitting here and he just finally said, I can't do it. I'm like, no. I mean, even if he had a bunch of buddies and had a bunch of equipment, still be a bear. And he said I I couldn't afford the equipment because he needed this stuff out here and he couldn't keep it out here just without using it. So, no, we're uh staying under four feet and beefing it up for him. So, sounds good. Well, I'm going to just keep across in the end. No, and I know that the neighbor's concerned about Yeah, the building official got an email. Look at Yeah, it sounds like that that lady they got next to him is causing them a lot of problems with this. It was just open for a whole year. So, he had it dug out. So, we got plenty of rock behind there. Good foot, foot foot and a half train. So, Well, it should work out good then. Yeah. Hopefully it stays there. Level his yard up a little bit. Yeah. He usually had some problems. Yeah. They don't see. We had u some porches built onto town houses. Uhoh. But they have no backyards. I mean, it is just the slope is, you know, twice as steep as this. You can't hardly stand back there. Well, so the porches required 24in footings. Well, eventually the footings started to go. Oh, you want to hear you want to hear the footings? You want to hear something wild about some footings? Them over there when they were getting their sketchy walls built, they had it was like kind of like a fourseason kind of thing there where that porch was. The guys cut the footings off and then it fell down. It detached from the house as it likes to do. Fell down into the road. Oh, wow. You imagine making that call? Nope. No, I would have liked to see I would have liked to know what the thought process was of Yeah, let's just cut these suckers out of the way. Yeah. What are these doing? Yeah, we don't need these. Commercial building years ago they were going to take down. It was kind of out on the north side of Plymouth before there's any development. And uh so the contractor comes in, gets a demolition per permit, and they start working about two days later, comes back in and he goes um Yeah. Uh we we've got to get a permit for explosives cuz well the footings they found the footings were in some places 6 ft wide. What…

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