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Regrade and Compact Soil

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Regrading to Fix a Wet Basement. 4k start to finish landscape project

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What happens here

With the retaining wall in place, the team continues to build up the soil behind it, creating a new, positive grade that slopes away from the house. A Bobcat skid-steer loader is used to move and roughly spread large volumes of soil, while workers follow with rakes to fine-tune the grading, ensuring a consistent slope. A plate compactor is then used to compact the newly added soil, minimizing future settlement and improving drainage.

Goal: Create a positive slope away from the house foundation to direct water effectively.

Tools and materials

  • Laser Level — Precisely checking and maintaining the correct slope
  • Plate Compactor NorthStar — Compacting the newly graded soil
  • Rakes — Fine-tuning the slope and leveling the soil
  • Skid-Steer Loader Bobcat S185 — Moving and spreading soil for regrading
  • Fill Dirt / Topsoil Local supplier — Building up the grade

What they say

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potentially lie right there because that's gonna be your pivot pivot point now in a wall this size we don't have to worry about it but if this wall was a bigger wall so a defect in the block would mean that during the manufacturing a lot of times what you'll see is the back end will be I think that made it worse yep instantly made it worse there you go a little better now isn't it okay so there we go so on a big wall we got to get rid of those on a small wall it's not gonna affect it it's not gonna impact you got it you got a larger margin for error on a small wall so liz's that's why there's so many good reasons why this is the perfect place to practice these little ones get it all right right here and then when you just translate that to a bigger wall you won't have any problems so what you'll see is Todd will carry them down and then Blaine is actually setting them and lining them up on longer runs where we'll do a super long run will actually run a string line around on the back not the front because this front has this rough face right here and the back has a nice smooth face

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