Achieving Perfect Finish Grade and Drainage

will kill the side wait a minute what happened blamed well we got all the black dirt down and then the irrigation people came in and they brought in a trencher when it was pouring rain and trenching new lines and they wrecked all our grade mudded it up and left it yeah you can see this was all perfect you know I was wondered yeah yeah so this is so earlier we had the subgrade done perfectly so we could just spread our black dirt in and have all of the elevation set so the sod would match up perfectly but then the irrigation guys came in and well let's just show you how how things went from there we had this really looking really sharp before so this is from them yeah cuz I was like where the heck did like this come from yeah yeah we had that all cut in nice so we could laid sod we could have just came in we had it all set so it was just feather the soil in Wow okay oh well I guess it happens did they put them at the right elevation well we have the great set perfect with the black dirt and it looks okay okay okay all right you guys you can never tell anything by a camera but we've got this entire yard pitched so that it runs straight down toward that Boulder back there behind me so everything will flow this way and that way because that's the bullet point of this yard [Music] [Applause] this is Todd's gonna actually loosen up that soil and level it out using a hand ring now a typical hard scape break doesn't have that dedicated lip you can see see that it it's got its different set up it's not quite the same but it'll rip through it now a power rake on a tractor or a loader works great for doing this if you don't have a six thousand dollar attachment available that hand rake that he's using right there works just as well well not quite just as well it's a lot more work it's this layer that we want to keep as loose as possible because we want the roots to have some nice tonight a nice medium for themselves to be able to work their way into and if you've got hard clay subsoil it literally will pack as hard as concrete and make it difficult not impossible but difficult to to let your your grass establish if you do have those conditions don't worry a lot of water goes a long way so what I'm actually referring to is you can still grow a lawn but it's gonna take a lot more water and we're gonna actually show you a trick how to fix that in case they did it to you because they did it to Blaine takes the second successful siding for seeding it's what you do right…