Initial Excavation and Material Removal

doesn't look like a very big pile the reason those slat tracks or those white boards are laid down so haphazardly is they're placed strategically over the buried irrigation lines and buried utility lines plus this is actually cutting through the neighbor's property so we don't want to jeopardize anything like that well we could we can keep it here if you want we'll just we'll make our radius come in here is that what you want otherwise because i know we're coming out that way you don't want to come out this way do you okay yeah i'm just thinking about where the end used to be if you're going down we'll just go so it's going to come back a little bit yeah so we can shave that hill off yeah so the water will come this way okay you got it yep and and once we get all this rock removed we start pushing up the dirt to build it up against the sidewalk yeah we'll do that all the way around we'll work on that stump i think we get that stump up that'd be nice no it'd be nice to get it out of here removing the stump wasn't in our original bid nor was extending the retaining wall down and around the corner so these are add-on work that isn't going to go quite as easy as we all hope this stuff is giving us two main challenges one we've got that concrete that surrounds the pool and that limits our ability to safely dig all the way around it but number two we also know that we have varied power lines to the pool pump and the plumbing for the pool all in that area so we can't put too much pressure laterally into that soil because it could shatter a pvc pipe that's buried underground the soil that we're digging out can't be reused it's been compromised it's soft and compressionable clay and we don't want it as backfill behind our retaining wall and we don't want to put it anywhere near that pool so it's got to get hauled out