New Project Introduction: Double Pyramid Steps

after the fact he adds on everything you see here it's not even the matching block but before we get into the rest of this story I want to take you out to a job site this is one of Blaine's last job sites that you will see him working on in our company he has graciously retired out we're gonna miss him he was an awesome dude he still isn't awesome dude just because he retires doesn't mean he stops being awesome but here you go here's our retail but before we get into the rest of this wall and how it was built I'm going to take you out to St Paul where we're currently working on another project not quite as large as this one using the same blocks and we're doing something pretty cool we're doing what's called a double pyramid that's where we're building a set of steps out of the retaining wall blocks but we're not doing the cut in method which is I personally believe a weaker method we're actually stacking the blocks like a pyramid on top of each other so we're stacking a pyramid on top of a pyramid we're just going to show you what we're building so due to space constraints on this while we had to do something rather unique we had to build it vertical and yes you can build walls these walls vertical with the versilac unit you can set them back or build them vertical it's not recommended to build them vertical except when you're building them around the side of steps like you're going to see in today's video or you may have already seen in today's video but this contractor that hired us hired an architect and an engineer and the three of them insisted without an option that this wall had to be built vertical they didn't want that little three-quarter of an inch setback on each row to take up parking space up top so here's one of the things that has come up in the past with these walls is even guys still today do this and it's the biggest mistake you can make the biggest mistake you can make now I'm going to show you what that is in just a moment but we're going to jump back out onto the job site because the guys out there have ran into a little snafu