Excavate Patio Area and Lay Sub-Base

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What happens here

Using orange spray paint, clearly mark the outline of the paver patio on the ground. Operate the Kubota skid steer to carefully scrape off the organic topsoil and grass from the marked patio area. Exercise extreme caution to avoid over-excavating or cutting too deep into the sub-base material. If accidental over-excavation occurs, simply refilling the area is not sufficient; the material must be placed in compacted lifts to ensure 100% compaction, which is crucial for the stability of the paver patio. Continue removing organic material until reaching the brown structural fill soil, which is suitable for the patio base. Once the organic material is removed, the sub-base material (recycled Class 5) is brought in by the skid steer, spread, and compacted thoroughly with a plate compactor.

Goal: Prepare the patio footprint and establish a stable sub-base

Tools and materials

Kubota SVL 65-2 Skid Steer Kubota — Scraping, removing, and spreading soil and sub-base material
Orange Spray Paint — Marking the patio outline
Plate Compactor Tomahawk — Compacting the sub-base material
Organic Topsoil and Grass N/A — Removal from the patio area
Recycled Class 5 Material — Creating the compacted sub-base

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therefore the fabric in this case really isn't an absolute necessity during this phase of the project we want to be very careful that we don't over excavate or cut our sub base material out too deep if by chance we do happen to cut too deep we can't just put the material back in like nothing happened we've got to actually place it in lifts and compact it to make sure that we have a hundred percent compaction below this new paper patio that's going in so by being a little extra careful during this step it will save us a lot of potential work down the road [Music] now whoa whoa whoa we can't just cut to any measurement because that's the right measurement we've also got to take into account that we've got to remove all of the organic material so for example let's say we know we've got to cut eight inches down to get the proper amount of base material in but we still have black or organic material eight inches down it doesn't mean our job is done then we have to keep going to remove all of that organic material and knows under no circumstances are we allowed to put a paper patio on any kind of black organic or non-structural fill soil now look very closely at the soil it still looks probably black to the average person but to the trained eye the black material has now been successfully removed and we are starting to get into the brown structural zone so we can just start to skim off any of the excess black dirt get that out of the way and then leverage that brown structural fill for our base and then bring in our sub base material or the recycle class 5 [Music] next on this project the customers also requested that we flank the paper patio with two natural stone sidewalks which are more of just natural landscape features to tie everything together than actual structural physical sidewalks it's more for aesthetics than it is for use but we still want to put enough bass down that it won't move our sub base material is recycled class 5 and what this is it's road millings that has been pulverized and crushed the largest pieces are three-quarter inch in

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