Final Landscaping and Seeding

here and the back has a nice smooth face and so if we run a string line down the back of the block that gives us a better better control over the block instead of having these weird ridges in the front impacting the string line and throwing it off [Music] so we're supposed to have a minimum of 12 inches of drainage aggregate behind the retaining wall but I always tell the guys don't be afraid to go 18 or even double at 24 inches it's just cheap insurance and probably one of the easiest ways to extend the life of your retaining wall when it comes to drainage aggregate it's one of those cases where more is actually better [Music] music creeps into now regrading this entire backyard was to correct the water problem and the reason we go to so much work is I'm a firm believer in keeping the water out no interior drink tile is an option but I've always tried to keep the water from penetrating and getting inside in the first place once you do that you don't need interior drink time well with the retaining wall completed and the ability to raise the grade at the back of the house we now need to borrow the dirt from the side of the house and try to get all of the water to flow from the back all the way down the side and to the street so as we're cutting the grade Todd's gonna be using the laser to make sure that we got all of the elevation and pitch running the right way so it is to lay the flea [Music] you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so no matter how careful we are you can still have problems which you're actually going to see in just a few minutes because this soil is semi loose we haven't done any compaction on because we do want to re-establish vegetation on it and then what happens to us is before the vegetation actually gets established we get a pretty big rain come down well it was a couple day gusher and it kind of messed up our grades so you'll see that in a minute all right you guys when we wrap this job up for the most part we're actually on down the road but we were just doing a little check-in and discovered a couple problem areas that need to be addressed now first off when we say we wrap this job up you'll be looking at going well there's dirt there's not grass here well a lot of times we actually like to leave a little bit of what we call sweat equity in the job now we could have seeded this we could have soldered this for the customer or we can let them do that themselves and save some money and a lot of times we just give them a sense of…