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Retaining Wall Block Installation

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Full day of work excavating & Landscaping a backyard with new retaining walls 4k Timelapse

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What happens here

Once the base is prepared, the retaining wall blocks are installed. The construction crew is divided into two teams: a "basing crew" responsible for laying the critical first course of blocks, ensuring it is perfectly level and aligned, and a "building crew" that follows to install subsequent courses and backfill with soil or gravel. Blocks are placed, leveled, and gently tapped into position with a rubber mallet. This systematic approach ensures efficiency and accuracy, especially for the foundational layers.

Goal: Construct the retaining wall by laying blocks in courses.

Tools and materials

  • Level — Ensuring each block and course is level
  • Rubber Mallet — Gently tapping blocks into place for proper seating and leveling
  • Shovels — Backfilling and fine-tuning soil around the blocks
  • Backfill Material — Filling behind the retaining wall courses to provide stability and drainage

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just a good tight fit for our wall up against the foundation so when we're building a retaining wall we divide the construction crews into two separate categories one is the basing crew and then two is the building crew now the basing crew will usually be a one or a two man crew that crews sole job is just to lay down that bottom course which is the most critical element and probably the most time-consuming part of the entire construction process we'll have one guy that just knows how to base and the second guy will feed that person blocks now in a small retaining wall like this we may have that second person that's feeding the base or blocks also start to build the retaining wall as well but when we get on bigger projects that's when we really have two or three guys all they'll be doing is just building and backfilling retaining walls while one or two other guys are still continuing to try to base and get ahead of them when they start to work in tandem like that that's when you can start to get the most production out of a jobsite [Music] [Applause] [Music] so you're just gonna burn up the dirt on

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