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Construct Retaining Walls and Refine Grading

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What happens here

The next phase involves constructing retaining walls along the foundation and around the newly graded areas. Large boulders are brought to the site, often from a personal stock, and carefully positioned using the mini excavator (Bobcat E325). Workers manually adjust and fit the stones to create stable walls. Emphasis is placed on meticulous placement to avoid exerting pressure on the already repaired foundation. The retaining walls define the new landscape contours and help manage water flow. This also helps establish the final pitch and swales required for optimal water diversion away from the house and into the pond.

Goal: Build stable retaining walls and finalize the landscape grading for water management.

Tools and materials

  • Mini Excavator Bobcat E325 — Moving and precisely placing large boulders for retaining walls
  • Rakes — Smoothing and refining soil surfaces
  • Shovels — Adjusting smaller rocks and soil around the boulders
  • Large Boulders — Building retaining walls along the foundation and landscape

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so now we've got to be extra careful when we're replacing these initial stones along this foundation wall because we know that it's been cracked we know that it's just been patch repaired as far as we're concerned and so if we let one of these stones move without being in complete control of it it could do so much damage to that foundation wall so everything's gonna be a little bit extra it's just gonna take us longer to do then if we could just hurry up and move along and we could trust the foundation wall and we can so it just takes longer it's no big deal it's just part of the process what is it about this place that every got no patience and we are back on our site today we got rained out yesterday got a pretty pretty decent amount of rain everywhere and it is sloppy out here today just nasty muddy mess everywhere except for underneath the porch which is which is good that's what we were going for so we got a pretty fairly aggressive pitch going away from the house into a little bit of a swale is going down this way and sending the water all out that way towards the pond which is it's it is super muddy through here so that means water's going where it's supposed to go before all this was pitching hard towards the house which is one of the contributing factors to the water problems the homeowners were having so that is all good needs to be where it needs to be to send the water away from the house so all that we got to do today as we are extending this upper boulder wall out a couple of boulders probably to right about here just so that we can get a little more of an aggressive pitch going down around the corner here to send that water right down the hill and out towards the pond where it needs to go so I just have that and this is all good to go so we just got a plastic and rock it and bring our edging put some edging in around here and this site will be done [Music] when I wake up in the morning drinking coffee oh my fell kidney trees I love [Music] my [Music] but you [Music] all right so we decided to shave this down a little bit more through here or it's pitching behind the end of the wall just so that we can get a little more aggressive pitch going away from underneath the patio there [Music] every day thank you

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