Project Completion and Drainage System Effectiveness

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The presenter conducts a final walkthrough of the completed backyard project. He showcases the newly laid sod, the meticulously graded swale, and the effective rock perimeter along the foundation. He emphasizes how the new contours seamlessly blend with the existing landscape, directing all water away from the buildings. He proudly reports that despite two weeks of heavy rain after grading but before sod installation, no water entered any basements, validating the success of the new drainage system. He also points out the previously unmentioned task of raising air conditioning units, which had been sinking due to prior water pooling issues. The project successfully demonstrates that proper grading alone, without extensive French drains or full-fledged foundation waterproofing, can resolve significant water problems.

Goal: Showcase the completed landscape and validate the effectiveness of the new drainage system.

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Sod — Covering the newly graded areas for a finished lawn

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place an important element all right guys well we're back at the site we're gonna show you how we wrap this project up even though we lost the footage we still can it show you what we did so this is all fresh sod right through here and you can see where we've cut in the Swale and then we blended it with the existing grades around the corner now let's go up and take a look at the backyards all right guys let's take a closer look at what we had to do you're actually gonna see that we sod it all the way up the hill and that was to blend all of the contours down because we had to actually extend our grading even further than what we originally anticipated so when we look at this backyard you originally we had the grade set there but then to blend everything we ended up recutting it higher up the hill so that we could get a nice even contour without getting any I call them ankle twisters steep drop-offs or ridges or things that if you weren't looking you would hit your ankle on and twist it another thing that we had to do the footage we lost was we had to raise these air conditioning units up they were actually sinking down because these downspouts were dumping water right here and everything was settling and actually kicking towards the buildings so before where this grade was flat now you can see that we've got everything going all the way as far out as we possibly can and that's about 16 to 20 feet where we have the Swale kicked in now this Swale it's set to go two different ways instead of having it just flow down one side or the other side we split it in the middle so now half the water who's going to be going that way and the other half of the water is gonna be going behind me and this is gonna kick all this water out and away from the buildings now before we were able to get this project desaad put in place we actually had two solid weeks of rain and during that two solid weeks worth of rain for these basements where before we're getting flooded off from just a single day of rain they didn't get a single drop of water in any of their foundation so we know that just by grading alone without French drain without doing full-fledged foundation waterproofing we were able to solve this problem that was those two weeks of rain were actually we're gonna count it as a blessing because we were able to actually test everything we did before we laid the sod out so sometimes you just got to look at the the good things that you have in life and that delayed us by two…

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