Continuing Retaining Wall Construction

for corners inside outside radiuses stairs and you're gonna see blaine does something really cool with these things in like a and moment it like a wall and we'll build a patio inside of it instead of just using blocks for the whole thing okay so what sam was saying is we could have used the pyramid method there and filled the entire core up with blocks now for a patio i think that's overkill what they're using is recycled class 5 and they're gridding it and that grid i told you is going to explain that what that does is that ties all of the sides of the blocks together so it can't explode outward now one thing about retaining walls a floating retaining wall so we're in the frost zone we we're gonna have frost heave this whole system is designed to float but that means it can't be tied to the house because that your house or structures up here are not designed to flow and so then you'd you'd have this weird angle if you actually tied it it would crack and break so the wall supposed to move evenly that's how they work but you can't have uh the soil underneath the wall doing the higgledy piggledy the soil underneath the wall has to all move evenly at the same time and this is all sam's camera work he's got some really cool shots so i hope that cleared up a little bit of that stuff screen-o-matic 5000 in action i think we'll have to snap this off or cut it probably cut it would be the quickest