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Prt 2 Retaining wall Blows out - Fast Repair

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Video by Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

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This project details the process of backfilling behind a newly installed retaining wall and re-landscaping the adjacent areas. It includes cleaning and capping the wall blocks, procuring suitable topsoil and decorative river rock, meticulously backfilling planter beds with new soil, installing landscape fabric, placing river rock, and finally grading and top-dressing the surrounding lawn. The goal is to ensure structural integrity and a finished aesthetic after a retaining wall repair.

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if you're just tuning in a water line broke blowing out one of our retaining walls and today we're gonna finish putting it back together so let's get started the caps will get glued to the course below it so any dust has to be removed to create a finished look the caps must be tight the faces must meet and the backs must match up no gapping is allowed on straight runs this is easy but if this was a curved wall every one of these blocks would need to be cut the boy slide the blocks slightly over the face of the retaining wall it's called an eyelash and it highlights the wall thumb to a snake the M blocks aren't thoroughly clean and the glue won't stick it had been cleaned and scraped but dirt kicked onto the wall during the bag fell with the final cap going in place the next phase of this project begins so Alex runs to the yard to get materials [Music] Alex and Sam's section off the dump trailer so they can get multiple materials on all at once so we got our black dirt to fix up here and fill in behind the wall ruts in both the yard and Boulevard need to be fixed the unsuitable rocky hard-packed soil goes back into the dump trailer to be disposed replacing it with the finer pulverized black dirt all right last step here we just got a fabric to put the rocks in in this little area I got to replant these three guys but they're toast I'm gonna be super surprised if they come back they might actually this one's pushing a little green I don't so is that one you know he'll be damned he might make it the hump in the yard still has to be taken down and the ruts and filled in the big chunks of turf get picked out by hand and then everything gets top dressed with new black dirt all right we are all wrapped up [Applause] this project was a good warm-up for the boys we have a couple projects coming up next but one down the pipeline we're an entire retaining wall has collapsed and a garage is about to fall over if we don't get to it soon so that one comes up next week god bless and go get em you guys we'll see you on another one please let me know if you want more job site videos like this more tool reviews more equipment reviews or what you'd like to see

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