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Final Construction and Reinforcement Review

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Rebuilding a Collapsing Driveway and Retaining wall

What happens here

After a section of the wall is completed, ensure the area is properly backfilled and reinforced. The video highlights several solutions implemented: using geotextile fabric and geogrid behind the wall to improve stability and drainage, spanning large boulders over removed tree stumps and utility lines to prevent future settling, and hand-digging to precisely locate every utility line before excavation. The final boulder wall successfully integrates large stones to create a structurally sound and visually appealing landscape feature that will last for decades.

Goal: Complete the boulder wall construction and ensure all reinforcement and aesthetic goals are met.

Tools and materials

  • Boulder Stones — The primary building material for the wall
  • Completed Boulder Retaining Wall N/A — The finished product of the project
  • Geogrid — Reinforcing the soil backfill for added stability
  • Geotextile Fabric — Providing separation and filtration behind the wall
  • Rake — Spreading and leveling backfill material
  • Shovel — Hand digging for utility locating and minor adjustments

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[Music] all right well let's give Tim a little bit of time to work and come back and visit this and see how these boulders go together and here she is pretty much wrapped up never crossed in the property lines and we had underground utilities and buried obstructions right down here let's go take a look at how they ended this wall right next to a mall so right there with stumps wrapped around the utility lines so we'll tell you how we did that in just a minute buried tree stumps and lines run it all through here so what do you got let's get the kind of stumps you got to do you around to loosen them up and the only problem with digging around them is we can't we don't have room because we couldn't do these so you never want to put a wall over a stump right ever because it's gonna rot mm-hmm and settle on you so in that situation we expand it with a big boulder which that's just one rock moving and shifting not a multiple stack of rock so that's something for these guys that take into consideration now you ground this stump down right okay so grinding it down is one way of doing it when you don't have the room to dig it out move it or and haul it away which we didn't have because this was littered with them now you hand dug and located every utility in this area didn't you Sam okay we had trenches we dug along where we were gonna be putting the boulders in and going to put down up to where we're gonna be putting boulders and now you've had a few changes on this job as well okay I'm so glad Sam except for that surprise fall in line that was like an inch under under the grass so you've had a few changes on this job that you've made along the way too right by adding geogrid into the driveway into the into the backfill of the and then I added some fabric on the back and we put class 5 up to the boulders okay so you added multiple layers of fabric really so so let's get this straight so guys watching this can understand what we did to ensure you know the job not only did your fabric behind the wall which is typical but then you fabric behind the driveway or the backfill zone over here and then this backfill Zone in the center you actually fortified with geogrid oh yeah how much it's gonna do but it always helps geogrid is like this magic bullet that makes a huge difference in patios retaining walls we've we've put fabric down and we put different geogrid strategies and swaps holding up retaining walls without doing soil Corrections Habitat for Humanity they always…

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