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Assess Site Conditions and Identify Issues

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How to Bid Excavating and Grading

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Begin by assessing the current site conditions of the area designated for the parking lot extension. Identify problematic materials, such as the described 'silt' or 'road base material' which becomes slick when wet, and note areas with existing 'rock' material which is preferable. The goal is to prepare the subgrade for new material and ensure proper drainage. This involves visually inspecting the existing parking lot to understand what needs to be graded and prepared.

Goal: Understand the existing ground conditions and material quality.

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we're going to build a parking lot today what I want you to see so we're going to build an extension sorry off from this parking lot this road based material when it gets wet it gets slick this lumber yard runs a lot of forkless I'm going to teach you how to build a road and more importantly than that how to estimate it this is a pretty good siiz project that can bite you in the butt if you don't do it right but it's not complicated it's easy to bid these things so why are we here the first thing that I want to show you is they have two different kinds of materials in this parking lot they got this rock which is awesome I wish the entire parking lot was like that if it was they wouldn't need me right but then they got the reason they need me which is this silt this when it gets wet gets

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