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Site Assessment and Step Height Planning

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What happens here

Assess the existing site conditions, including an old construction road that needs to be restored into a lawn, and identify low spots and rocky areas. The team discusses moving a pine tree stump and the grading required. It's noted that the area is very rocky, with a significant amount of rock underneath the topsoil. The existing deck's height is measured to determine the appropriate rise for new stone steps. The goal is to match the step-down distance from the existing deck to the first stone step, then to subsequent stone steps, and finally to the patio, ensuring uniform and safe transitions. This requires careful reverse engineering of the step heights.

Goal: Evaluate terrain, rock presence, and plan step dimensions

Tools and materials

  • Measuring Tape — Measuring step heights and overall dimensions
  • Orange Spray Paint — Marking areas for excavation and grade changes
  • Pine Tree Stump N/A — Removal from the work area

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the office settings stepping stones and decorative rock is part of it and then grading and stump removal so this grating portion is where uh moving the pine tree stump now kevin will go over where the gas is and everything around that there might be some stuff in that area um the the grating and removal disposal of uh one load of unsuitable soil i figured we'd scrape up about a load of rock and stuff there's gonna be more rock under this now where tim is currently standing is actually the old construction road and that has to be restored to a lawn but before we can just restore it we've got more construction to do so we're going to use that construction road before we take it out oh yeah we're right down here on the river i've got an importation of one load of structural fill soil and then whatever you get from the patio i was thinking of throwing in this low spot here and then we're gonna try to i've got about three loads of screening pulverized black dirt topping everything in here so we're trying to take out as much rock as we can sure um scraping it down and kind of however it works out but we want to get these grades working right i can't see us wanting to strip too too deep under this now so wherever this is the uh century your five inch step here then you got your one two three four five six inches and then you got one two three four five inch i'm just trying to think if we're doing two that would bring you i'm trying to make it there there's there's two steps right there you know two of them in here side by side and then when they where they meet we might have to do a little saw cutting to make them butt up a little tighter yeah you know where the two because there's gonna be maybe six steps here or six of those stones here and then two of them here is it that does that make sense to you because i never really did go over this with you this was just the idea we had so let's paint you a little bit of a clearer picture we've got an existing deck that we've got to work off from and the first step off from that deck has to be the same distance as each one of the stone stairs that we're going to be putting in so our first step down will be off the deck onto stone and then from that stone we'll be stepping off from that stone onto another stone and from that stone we'll be stepping onto a patio so we've got to reverse engineer everything and set the patio at the right height to allow us to get one stone step on a second stone step on and have each of…

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