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Retaining Wall Foundation and Base Preparation

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"No Plan, No Problem" Landscape

What happens here

The site is further prepared for the retaining wall and patio. Trenches are dug along the planned layout for the retaining wall, using both manual shoveling and the mini-excavator. A geotextile fabric is laid in the trenches to provide stability and prevent mixing of base materials with native soil. Gravel is then spread and compacted in these trenches to create a stable foundation for the retaining wall blocks. A plate compactor is used to achieve the necessary density, while workers ensure proper leveling and alignment.

Goal: Establish a stable, level foundation for the retaining wall.

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat Mini-Excavator Bobcat — Digging trenches and moving soil
  • Geotextile Fabric — Separating base material from native soil and providing stability
  • Gravel — Creating the stable base layer for the retaining wall
  • Level — Ensuring the base is perfectly level
  • Plate Compactor — Compacting the gravel base for stability
  • Shovels — Digging trenches and spreading gravel

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the bottom in theat part yes that I always like to try to get my customers involved in the process of actually completing their Landscaping you know a little Sweat Equity give them a sense that they are part of what they're going to be living with now sometimes some customers respond really favorably to that they like that they save money they're part of the process they get to be part of the creative juices and we always kind of set things up ahead of time for them and I started to do this way early in my career and the response was so great from residential customers that I made the mistake in trying to do it on a commercial site we were doing the women's Shaka prison which was a commercial project and we were doing everything all the infrastructure the layup the foundations everything from start to finish and one of the jobs and this is a so if you're not familiar with the women Shaka prison it's a wide openen prison it's a correctional facility designed for women but there's no fences I guess it's like an honor System prison like legitimately the inmates are allowed outside and they can just walk around and sometimes they walk off into the neighborhood which is legitimately across the street from the women Shaka prison well they had came to me with a change order request to do some finished grading that was outside of the original scope of work which was fine and dandy but what wasn't finding Dandy was they didn't like my price and it was my my dad was still around back then God Rest his soul and we made the mistake of

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