Employing the 'Good Cheat' and Shimming

and this is an excellent spot to jump in and talk about a good chief sometimes you don't want to remove the existing retaining wall because you can compromise the structural integrity of the soil or structures behind it in fact there's times when you want to leave an existing retaining wall in place and then build another retaining wall in front of it I've done this on a lot of projects through municipalities municipalities cities giant projects where we've actually had signed off engineering designing the new retaining wall with the old wall left in place so it's just because it's there doesn't mean it necessarily has to be removed sometimes you can leave the old walls in place and be better off now here's one of the big rules that I want you guys to take away from this don't get married to a stone and what that means is you may have a vision for that Boulder but it just doesn't feel right it just doesn't go together so you may have to end up pulling it up a part of retaining wall pulling some stones off before you can find everything that kind of starts to fit together naturally now building a boulder wall is also time-consuming just placing these two stones you watching here took me over seven minutes to get these to the point where I was no longer criticizing myself or anything now we can go in just okay you want a bumper adjust by the angle why do you me what I'd like to do is have this backside come up just a little bit able to pull that up we could shove something behind it so they can get this up the perfect break that two-month walk up your land in a perfect world you'd be level this top wouldn't flat well yeah yeah take that burn you know it's heavier Talbot okay just wait before you show up this time made sure I just left I'll let you know when I got it okay up I'll get some tubes behind it I know you want that flap I'm talk so this is where your shimmer comes in place concrete blocks make excellent shims other stones make excellent shims if you're not using dirt behind the wall pack some dirt in all right so one of