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Grading and Compacting the Foundation Area

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TOUGH ACCESS landed a $5,000 Landscaping in a day #2

What happens here

Workers begin to fine-tune the grading of the dirt around the house foundation. One worker uses a plate compactor to compact the soil, particularly near the foundation, to ensure a stable and settled base. The narrator highlights a critical detail for foundation drainage: the finished grade should be at least 6 to 8 inches below the sill plate of the house. This prevents moisture from reaching the wooden structure and deters pests. The mini-skid steer continues to bring in small amounts of dirt to areas that need building up.

Goal: Achieve proper soil grade and compaction around the house foundation.

Tools and materials

  • Grapple Bucket — Attached to the mini-skid steer
  • Plate Compactor — Compacting soil for a stable base
  • Rake — Fine-tuning soil levels
  • Shovel — Moving small amounts of dirt and shaping the grade
  • Dirt/Soil — Adjusting grade levels

What they say

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so what do you guys think was it a realistic expectation and no turf damage considering they had the sprinklers on this morning which was unknown to tim and i that they were going to be doing that so this grass is soaking wet now i think this is going to bounce back pretty confident that'll bounce back i don't think that's going to have any major malfunctions tim's on his way to get another load of dirt some boulders here we've got the grade raised up one of the things we got to be careful of joey is we're too high right here okay we've got to have six inches at least the clearance for eight inches preferred below the sill plate right there so we won't be covering up the black on this side just because that's our point that we got to get everything from that point we got to go lower and get everything to run down and make sure that we're staying busy while tim is hiking materials into and out for us we got this area set up we'll start to put the rock out and get that laid out sound like a plan yep cool beans so this looks pretty good to me i like how joey's got this kicking away from the house as much as we possibly can without gouging up the rest of the grass so the water will flow away and everything will flow down and out so we can restore the rock in this area we'll touch this up then we got to bring them boulders in and wrap that up want to undo the chain i reminded you i'm not the only one that does it [Music] what do we get for boulders one two three four five six seven eight nine ten ten boulders yeah yeah you definitely got enough boulders joey you see how that dump trailers tilted sideways yeah i do yeah what you just that's about the maximum like comfortable you could dump okay i wouldn't even call this comfortable okay like if i was gonna come out and see you dump and i'd say hey let's just make sure we're level tim owns it so if he wrecks it yeah he's got to pay he's got to pay the bill so right yeah even going uphill she's still dragging

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