Material Swap and Repurposing Blocks

bed now the second block on this jobsite in the upper wall that the contractor or the customer actually brought in is keystone compact units it's also a hollow block but fortunately at least you can fill it from the top and it does have pins it's not my chosen block but it's what's on this site and it's what we've got to use so let's give back to the project step now somewhere you just fill that up as a level it with class five and base one on top of it one more project yeah we've got a lot going on back here that's for fear these are the Keystone compact units which are actually a better block but the problem with these particular units is they're no longer manufactured so finding this block to match up to is going to be a challenge that we're going to run into a little bit later on in this video now these blocks unlike the ones we typically use need to be core field and backfilled as well what you're seeing these guys doing it this step is the back filling they will core fill later on Sam calls this wall his baby and with a brand new block it can be a little bit more difficult to figure out and he wants to get it right yeah question yeah so this is this is straight across right that's good but this low the level is saying it needs to come a little bit that way but if we bring that up then it's gonna be high on the corner now one of the things I think is interesting is nothing is going on top of this block that's the end of the retaining wall something I will never pick up what the level is telling Sam but he's still putting the attention to detail into it this makes it the perfect place to practice with that this is probably this area the retaining wall is going to be entirely covered up by a deck which is a good thing because you're gonna see why in just a minute now structurally nothing has been compromised as we build this upper tier of this retaining wall aesthetically even though nothing matches up because we've got anchor diamond units and tan on the bottom we've got Keystone retaining wall units in gray on the top and we're gonna be adding a third completely different look coming up in just a minute structurally everything should still hold together so although the customer saving money on materials that savings comes at its own price we are making the wall and a little fire pit for this guy I would have blocked that he had on site he wants to reuse these blocks that he had and we cannot find anymore we need some more fur over at the fire pit to…