This DESTROYS many Retaining walls! #fail #guaranteed

[Music] good morning everyone so we're back out on our other wall um if you guys will recall a couple of weeks ago we couldn't get the caps it was all freaking mess it actually worked out pretty well because the caps came in like right when we were wrapping up with our last project so we just shot over here we're gonna get those caps on final grade and then we'll be out at a new one tomorrow so all things considered that worked out pretty well and uh pretty sure that just explained what we're gonna do today we're gonna do caps and we're gonna grade [Music] caps hide your screw-ups and there's nothing wrong with this but let me just explain i'm not talking about covering up a structural defect but i'm talking about if your wall has a slight wave or a slight wobble or it's not perfectly straight because maybe you did a radius and your string couldn't use a string line you had to eyeball it and you're just not totally happy with how it looks you can strategically use your caps to make sure that your eye the eye is drawn to the area that you want people to look at and that's the beauty of all caps so if your wall has a little bit of a wobble you want to have just enough of an offset on your cap that the cap straightens out all of the wobble below it you can have your caps over the face of the wall you can have the caps flush with the top of the wall you can have your caps set back from the top of the wall that's a personal preference between you and your customer another thing that i personally like to do with my caps is make sure that they're all solid and tight so as we're going around a radius or a curve it does require extra work but i feel that that's the thing that customers see for years down the road so if you take time to dress up the little things at the very end of the job site it can pay big dividends later on but there's also a trick to grading that i want to cover in just a few minutes but let's wrap up this thing with the caps [Music] truthfully you'll be [Music] talk to me [Music] my [Music] mind [Music] so [Music] definitely [Music] talk to me [Music] my [Music] my [Music] so just like with caps with grading there's lots of different ways that you can do it and still be right but there is some ways you can do it and be wrong so instead of telling you all the ways you can do it that's right let's just concentrate on the main thing that you can do wrong when it comes to grading if your cap is here and your grade is here and your face your wall is over here don't put your grade down here creating a dam so that the water flows down and gets stuck behind your retaining wall it's okay to get that dirt to be flush so that when the water comes down it hits flows over and goes down over the face i suppose they should put this is the retaining wall that probably makes more sense so that this is your grade the water comes down and flows over the face of the retaining wall don't put it down here creating a dam now you can actually create a channel yes my arm does bend that way pretty good you can actually create a channel directing the water into the drainage zone behind the retaining wall but but i don't recommend trying to get that water to intentionally flow behind the retaining wall what you want to do is if you're going to create this channel you want to have an outlet away from the retaining wall do not pump any more water than the wall is designed to handle behind your retaining wall what i mean is do not ever ever ever let your customer stick a downspout behind your retaining wall i guarantee it will wreck it don't put a sump pump behind your retaining wall and it will wreck it don't put your neighbor's gutters behind jewelry to anything anything that directly shoves water behind your retaining wall is a giant no-no and a disaster eventually waiting to happen it will hold up fine for a few years depending on the amount of water but eventually it will catch up to you and bite you in the butt so when you're grading you can put your grade flush with your retaining wall so it falls down over the face or you can create a channel to direct the water and then direct it away from the retaining wall behind it just don't create a dam forcing the water to hit the backside of your wall making it go through your wall because you will regret it well i suppose i should have said it earlier but that's all we got for you on this one but we got a really cool show coming up for you where we have an inspector come out and he does not believe the work that we did i can't make stories like this up that's coming down the pipeline so if you like stuff like that hit that subscribe button if you like wall series like this that's awesome because we got more of it coming your way but that's it for today god bless go get em and i'll see you guys on another one catch you later