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Installing Steel Edging and Leveling

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What happens here

The speaker moves to an area where steel edging has been installed along a mulched bed adjacent to the house and a black dirt pathway. He shows how the edging needs to be perfectly level with the existing concrete driveway due to its slight pitch. He uses a spirit level to demonstrate the precision required in setting the edging, emphasizing that careful leveling prevents an unnatural appearance and ensures proper integration with the surrounding hardscapes.

Goal: Demonstrate the precise installation and leveling of steel edging.

Tools and materials

  • Spirit Level N/A — Ensuring the steel edging is perfectly level with the driveway
  • Black Dirt N/A — Base for sod and pathways
  • Mulch — Ground cover in flower beds
  • Steel Edging N/A — Defining the edges of garden beds and pathways

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All right. Uh, steel edging. We've got steel edging on this site. Blaine, how did that go in? No, seriously. How did it go in? Uh, it's tough to put in. But is it tough? Is it tougher than black? Oh, yeah. Way tougher. Yeah. Really? No. Why is that? Uh, you got to get them like almost perfectly level because of joints. Okay. They don't bend this way. No. No. They bend this way a lot. Okay. They bend the way you don't want them to bend. Especially when you want straight lines. Okay. But and you know, working in the mud. And I see you have corner joints. Oh, I see you have corner joints, but I also see you you you've actually leveled it. Did is this Did you use this? Yeah, we actually level it. No, I actually brought that out to show you how level it with the driveway cuz the driveway's got a small pitch this way. Oh, okay. All right. All right. All right. We just went straight across. So you took the level and just put if you put it like on the edge of these two. Okay. So you took the level maybe just a hair higher. Just a hair higher over here. Okay. So we're higher here than there. Yep. So you didn't you didn't just go and stick it in. That's my new word of the day by the way. I mean that gets the

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