Finishing the Project & details cutting blocks

i'll just shovel it back there behind the wall there probably well i'm gonna just start basing okay well i'll get those i'll get that grid on those blocks there and see about getting up in our couple courses while you're while you're working on that yep i'll just follow behind you now we've added geogrid which is a reinforcement material to the main length of the retaining wall but as we come into the radius we no longer need the geo grid for strength but we don't want to take it out because then the blocks could go down just a hair fraction and your eye may be drawn to that so we throw in just enough geo grid underneath the blocks that they all stay true to level as we round out the wall oh and i'm gonna leave in some longer reviews that sam likes to do on tools once that kid gets talking about tools he doesn't shut up so i'm gonna leave a few of them in today and you guys let me know what you think as blaine comes to the end of the wall you'll see him measuring the grade he's calculating where he can step the wall safely up and still have a course buried we got the milwaukee cutoff saw out here today i was looking and looking and looking i probably had about an hour hour and a half into trying to find a charger for my most favoritest battery saw ever the dewalt thought i was losing my mind and it ended up standing headed up north at the cabin which is cool we still got it i thought i was going crazy but what i did do so grab the blade off of the dewalt because this thing is amazing that the walt is just over all a great stop so we're going to throw the wall blade on the milwaukee all right get our last bit of drain tile cut in here so we usually go about four and a half inches which is right here that's good then i like to start with the front and what i'll do is i'll go and just like barely score my line here before i turn the water on so you get that water on there and it will wash away your mark really really quick so i like to like i said i just like to put a little barely score along this front face here and then it's easier get a nice straight line on there then it's easier to kind of match the sides up like that but at least it is in my opinion and then if any of you are in the market for a tape measure this milwaukee auto lock is pretty slick just for the fact that it auto locks [Music] fellaini if you look closely you'll see where we're building the brand new retaining wall is just a few feet in front of the old retaining wall but that space between the two is filled up with three-quarter clear drainage aggregate and that's reinforced with geobread now burying a retaining wall like this behind an existing retaining wall is actually an okay scenario when done under the right circumstances one of those circumstances is if removing the old retaining wall jeopardizes a structure then look at the option of building a new wall in front of the old wall and tying them now you can actually use this same process on timber retaining walls with caution the timber wall will break down when it's buried but the encapsulation process or burying it behind another retaining wall dramatically slows down how fast that wall will break down and so you have to wait is the potential for that wall to slowly decay behind the existing wall worse than the process of entirely removing it and jeopardizing a structure that's something that you have to weigh in an individual case-by-case basis okay so plan wayne's getting materials i am gonna cut in our next piece of drain tile which is gonna be right in here we're stepping up our corner right here and then we're going to step up again right about here so that's the first thing that we're going to work on is get this base in get the rest of this corner built and then we're going to work on dialing in the grade behind the wall then if we have time left over at the end of the day we're going to start getting the front of the wall kind of grated out more gooder the previous retaining wall was built too high which then trapped the water between the swimming pool and the retaining wall forcing everything to go down and through it and without enough drainage aggregate the wall eventually failed what we're doing differently this time is adding a lot of extra drainage aggregate we're going to add geogrid into the wall which you can see going in place and we're going to shorten the wall forcing the water to not just go behind the wall but it can also go over the face of the wall at the same time [Music] today the homeowner added a couple of things he wants us to hump some rock back there for him he's going to have somebody else spread it around behind and in front of the wall it's kind of going uh for a two-tone look so first bit of it it's going to be the fort dodd white which this stuff is so expensive it's like [Music] it's like 83 or 85 dollars a yard for that stuff so got another load of that coming so it's my understanding the homeowner has access to some muscle that'll help them get that rock put in place but our job is to get it at least close to the work zone so we're going to stockpile it in the backyard for him all right we got our trench in for our edging that treading sure worked freaking great probably saved us like half a day because we have been running over this area for like almost three weeks so that would be a lot of shoveling [Music] so [Music] all right guys blaine and i are all wrapped up with our wall and if you'll remember remember this wall was loosey-goosey wavy davey it was tipping forward the radiuses were separating it had a good kind of wobble to it like that um there's a couple of problems that were causing that first of all it was irrigation all back here um the wall was built kind of shoddy and then the grade behind the wall was was way off so they had it was essentially a ditch that was collecting all the water and not going anywhere except for behind the wall so what we did is we actually brought the wall out uh almost two feet so we could get a good grade behind it to shed the water this way um yeah here's what we got sweat equity that's what this one is about so we've gotten this job done where we've done most of the heavy lifting for the customer the wall has been built the grades have been established now we've even gone so far as to move the landscape rock that these guys want to put in place back into the work zone so they don't have to happen all the way from the street into the backyard but now these guys will be owning the rest of this project and a lot of times i like to leave projects where the customer can do some of the finished work themselves because then they feel like they've had an active role in their own landscaping job some customers like it some don't you guys tell me what you think in the comments down below but that's our video for today god bless go get him you guys and now it's back to our regularly scheduled program where we go deeper on our job um do more voice-overs and take you along for the ride see you next time