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Lay the First Course of Blocks

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Retaining walls- SPOTTING short cuts & BAD work

What happens here

Workers begin laying the first course of retaining wall blocks directly onto the compacted Class 5 aggregate. Each block is meticulously leveled using a spirit level and adjusted with a mallet to ensure it is perfectly level from front to back and side to side. The narrator explains that the wall is built in sections due to the tight workspace, highlighting the importance of visually ensuring smooth transitions between sections.

Goal: Establish the initial level and stable layer of the retaining wall.

Tools and materials

  • Retaining Wall Blocks Versa-Lok — The main structural components of the wall
  • Rubber Mallet — Adjusting block placement and leveling
  • Shovel — Adjusting the gravel base for leveling
  • Spirit Level — Ensuring each block is level

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and that is a topic for i think another video entirely all together it's an extremely advanced topic and it's not something that can be applied to every site but once you know how to use it you can start to spot areas and indicators where it's a perfect way to fix a problem area now in this case we just had extra timbers buried and we needed to bring it up so no geogrid was needed to layer into that base material [Music] now one thing we're doing on this job site is building the wall in sections and in this case it's simply because the job site is just too tight to allow us to be able to build the entire wall from the bottom all the way up as one unit so what we're doing is building one section from the bottom up at a time and then we're combining the sections together now you've got to be careful one of the things that can happen if you're not used to working this way is your wall can look like it was built in sections instead of looking like it's all one fluid unit if you spot and look closely you may see a retaining wall that was built in one section then another section then another section and

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