Assess Damage and Prep Old Blocks

there was a water line that flew out behind a portion of the wall so they had a terribie sand chunk for the wall out in order to replace the water main and here's what we here's what we got to work with so the city came in tore out our wall and then drove a skid loader through it which means we've got to put it back together we'll be using brand-new blocks to fill in the gap but we've got to prep the old blocks before that can happen the old blocks have to be cleaned and scraped before they can be reused these are versa locks standard units they are a solid block but also have a pin system that hold them together so the pin holes and the pin slides both have to be scraped clean Sam also has to make enough room behind the blocks for new backfill and drainage aggregate he hand compacts behind the wall to make sure that there's no unsettled material [Music] here's a good real-world example of how this geogrid works so this the waterline blue and the fall it's been sitting all winter you know for a few weeks in the spring here and not only the bank really went anywhere except for where they scooped it out we got about I was like four is feet of the geogrid going back behind the wall and it absolutely held his bank back this would have been all over the sidewalk everywhere if we didn't have that to you up here than there