Final Grading and Erosion Control

[Applause] Work. All right. Good morning, everybody. back after the weekend and but yeah, Sam came in Saturday. Hey, and along with Alex and they got drain tile that was tied in over here run underneath here to there and then Sam did the caps. Oops. And then they got this all black dirted. And then the homeowner or we had gotten the supplies, but the homeowner wanted to do it. Did the straw matting all the way down the hill to prevent wash out and all that other stuff. So yeah, that's what he did and it's looking good. Oh yeah, and there's heat underneath here, too. So, but yeah, that's what got done. And then Friday, I left early cuz I had two teeth on this side ripped out of my head. And make sure you brush your teeth, people. But all right, on to work. All right. Now, here's an important point that I do want to point out is nobody makes me bleed my own blood. I always love it when I repeat the word in a sentence twice. But anyway, now I don't even know what I'm talking about. It could have been important. Probably wasn't. No, I remember what I'm talking about. There. The rules that I applied for you guys during this video are for landscape retaining wall blocks. There are certain kinds of blocks like poured retaining walls. There's also CMU concrete masonry unit walls. So, there's different ways to build a retaining wall using different materials, and some of those materials may require you to tow into the foundation or structure of a house, but the materials we use do not. Here's a rule of thumb. If you have a contractor that is going to use a kind of material that requires them to tow into the foundation of a house, then that wall has to play by the rules of that house. What I mean is, in this case, I'm in Minnesota and we have to have everything buried 4 feet below frost. There's just no getting around it. So any type of a house or structure like this has basement or it has a 4ft frost footing. And if I have a retaining wall that acts as part of the house, whether it's the a deck, retaining wall, any kind of a structure, I have to play by the same rules that I have to build that house by. So the wall you see here, that wall floats separately and independently from the house. That wall's that wall right there probably only has a 18in footing. The house has a minimum of a 4ft frost footing. Now, if I'm going to use a kind of material that requires me to tow into the house and tie into it, I now have to have the minimum requirement of 4 ft buried below…