Backfilling, Regrading, and Restoration

build off and one of the things to make sure you account for is the damage you're going to do while you're building your wall though some people would say well can we save the grass put plywood down or what build a road or whatever yes you can but you're gonna end up taking a lot longer to build your wall it's better just to allocate some time at the end of the job to regrade this and budget in that you're gonna have to reseed it or Reis on it that's gonna be your best bet long term so though wasting more time let's do that next now in today's job my new wall is not as tall as the old wall because it didn't have to be whoever built the wall before built it way higher than what was necessary so the grade was lower what I want to do on today's project is lower the grade behind the retaining wall I actually I lowered the retaining wall and then I'm going to also lower the grade behind the retaining wall to make sure that we get all of the water to kick away that's another thing that we need to talk about you never build a retaining wall and put in face water to it you always build a retaining wall so that the water runs away from the retaining wall sometimes that's going to be a challenge but it's also part of the requirement if your wall is too low and you can't get the water to run anywhere but to the face of the wall maybe you need to raise the wall up so that you can raise the grade behind it today's job was actually the opposite so we've got to account for where the water is going to go because again it's so critical that you don't dump water over the face of your retaining wall they're just not meant to be a dumping ground for excess water all right guys one last