Mass Excavation and Rough Grading

guys in back and we're going to we're starting to spread the black dirt. We're getting towards the final stages of this project. Probably hopefully be wrapped up by the end of the end of the week. Might not. I'm not sure. Don't quote me. Good morning one and all. The biggest mistake that you can make when you're buying a house is to buy a house that's too low. Meaning that the house has settled down and the ground around it has built up. But that's not the most costly mistake that you can make when you're buying a house. The most costly mistake you can make when you're buying a house is buying a house that has no backyard, that has just a slope going straight down. Now, here's the fundamental difference between those two properties. A house that is set too low means that the ground around it has settled and created a water or drainage issue. There's three easy ways to solve that. I've covered that in other videos. Go back in the library and check it out. Those are not bank breakers, meaning it's not going to bust your budget to fix a house that's too low. It's annoying. It's going to mean you have to address it. You can't ignore it unless you like living in a mold habitat. And I the video just came out where I showed how to fix it three different ways. But the most costly mistake you can make is thinking you're going to build a backyard out of nothing because it involves retaining walls. It involves adding fill soil. It involves labor. It involves skill. And here's the problem. There's not a lot of contractors qualified to do it. There's not. because it involves the most important thing that's missing from something like this is engineering. You can't just use any old soil. You can't just build walls wherever. Every single wall has to be engineered. You see, there's a thing called a search charge. When one retaining wall sits close to another retaining wall, it adds a search charge onto the bottom retaining wall. And here's a lick and stick rule of thumb. There must be a 2:1 separation from one wall to another wall to not place a search charge onto the bottom wall. Also, when you look up, the house can add a search charge onto a retaining wall. The slope itself can add a search charge onto a retaining wall.