Excavation and Foundation Exposure

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What happens here

After the initial planning, extensive excavation is performed to lower the upper yard, creating a much larger flat area referred to as a 'courtyard effect.' This involves removing a significant amount of soil from the hillside. The video shows the transformed landscape with the upper yard lowered and the backfill removed from behind the existing Versa-Lok wall. The base of the existing Versa-Lok wall is exposed and 'stair-stepped' (or 'keyed in'), revealing the foundation courses where the new wall sections will connect seamlessly. This preparation is crucial for integrating the new wall with the old structure and ensuring overall stability.

Goal: Create the desired flat courtyard space and prepare the existing retaining wall for extension.

Tools and materials

Excavator — Large-scale soil removal and grading
Rakes — Leveling and smoothing the excavated area
Shovels — Fine-tuning excavation and clearing debris

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looking for so we're back at the site there's a couple things I want to point out on this project one is we've Tak taking the time to enlarge the lower area we call it the courtyard effect what we've done is we've given this customer more space directly off from their back door they have more room to entertain to barbecue just to have guests and company over giving it a much bigger feeling one of the other things that I want to point out in this job is how we are going to add on to an existing retaining wall and make it blend if we look at this wall that we have here we have stair stepped it back or bead it down this is is the bottom course this is the buried course we've taken off all of the rest of the retaining wall so that we can match directly into and add on to this wall making a cohesive seam that's going to be strong we really can't do it any other way and know that we're not going to have an interruption in the strength of this retaining wall the other thing that I want to point out on this project is the base since we're at this point I

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