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Pine Tree Area Re-sodding Project

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Day at work with Genadek Landscaping, Mowing, Hardscaping and Excavating

What happens here

The speaker visits a client, Jay, who has a persistent problem with a dead lawn patch where pine trees previously stood. Pine trees alter the soil's pH, making it acidic and unsuitable for healthy grass growth. To remedy this, the solution involves removing the affected soil, hauling it away, and replacing it with fresh, pulverized, screened, and chemically tested black dirt. This new soil is specifically tested for contaminants like arsenic, common in areas with older homes. The project is estimated at $2,000, with $550 allocated for the dirt and $1,450 for labor. Before any excavation, it is crucial to contact utility locators to mark underground lines (cable, phone, gas), especially along boulevards where high concentrations of utilities are present. Water lines are typically deep enough (8 feet) not to be a concern for this type of excavation.

Goal: Revitalize a dead lawn patch affected by pine tree soil acidity.

Tools and materials

  • Dump Truck — Hauling away old soil and bringing in new soil
  • Shovel — Removing existing soil
  • Pulverized — Replacing the acidic soil

What they say

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amazing absolutely incredible and I okay so we're at a a job site right now we're with Jay and the problem Jay's having is he has you see that Pine Tree in the back this big one these were all pine trees underneath here and you can look these pine trees were removed a while ago how long ago were they removed Jay 3 years ago 3 years ago and this lawn still is dead and and what happens is the pine trees actually alter the pH of the soil underneath and so you can't just grass seed it you can't just sod over the top of this because that's that react because that pH is going to react with the soil and it's going to eventually kill the grass it's going to weaken it and so in a situation like this what we've got to do the best thing that we can do is come in and just scrape this down and get rid of this soil we dig it out we haul it away and then we bring in pulverized screen chemically tested uh the the top soil that I bring in has actually been tested for arsenic in Minneapolis Minnesota we have a lot of older homes they have paint peeling paint and people are scraping and removing those yards that contaminates the soil and that is a soil we do not want to bring in anywhere so I make sure that it's certified and tested before that happens um and so that's what we're going to do we're going to scrape this down we're going to bring in a load of pulverized screen black dirt we're going to do this job for for 2,000 bucks we're going to get be in we're going to be out we're going to get this taken care of so my friend here can actually have a yard again instead of this BR Brown patch that he stared at for three years what we got to do to do that is we got to locate utilities because we're along a Boulevard there's a high probability that there's going to be a cable line running parallel to this now we can see the overhead power lines coming in there's going to be a gas line that that's probably running in the street and then 90 deing teeing off and going into each house the water lines are going to be 8 ft deep we're not worried about that what we are worried about in a situation like this is phone and cable if we hit those usually it's a $100 bill or something to get them fixed it's usually not that big of a deal but it's but it's just a simple phone call to do a utility locate it protects you guys the contractors it protects us protects the the the homeowners involved so we got to make sure we get that done so I'm actually going to run back to my office right now…

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