Evaluate Foundation Weep Holes and Grade

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Carefully inspect the building's foundation, specifically looking for weep holes, which the narrator refers to as 'wicks.' These are crucial for allowing the foundation to breathe and for moisture to escape. The current ground grade is observed to be too high, covering these weep holes. This indicates that the grade must be significantly lowered (a 'cut') before any new drainage or landscaping materials can be added. The weep holes define the maximum elevation for the finished grade, ensuring they remain exposed.

Goal: Further inspection involves examining the foundation for weep holes ('wicks') to understand the maximum permissible height for the new ground grade. The existing grade is too high, covering these weep holes, necessitating excavation to expose them for proper foundation breathing.

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you what we're going to be working with all right one of the questions is going to be why don't you raise the grade on the building and let me show you why we can't raise the grig to improve the swale we've got a cut on the one side see these wicks these wicks are like the sill plate this is the high high ground table we can't go above these wicks so i shoot this line and actually down on that end i'm slightly too high already the grade is set as high as it possibly can go on this side except for this hole of course so everything else has to contour from that elevation away that's what we're doing

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