Mold mitigation with foundation drain retrofit

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So I'm up here at Kyle's place. This is looking in the inside the inside of the foundation. Um, you can see, we've got a little bit of moisture down there in the bottom, and then it's, it's kind of, uh, seeping through the cinderblock grout lines. And then, uh, we've got a little bit of a bold accumulation right there into that two by four. Uh huh. So that's that. So it is basically we need to remove the whole water as much as possible. We're going to look at this right here.

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It looks like you just have a little bit of water right there. And then, uh, Kyle and Rachel said that there's some water that was in here, um, during, during runoff, I suppose.

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All right, I'm still up here. Kyle's place. And we have this, uh, concrete here. We're going to bury this concrete and put a little bit of our excess dirt along this berm here. And now we also need to get a price together for redoing this retaining wall is starting to, um, bow out and, and bulge out there at the top. It's the beginning, it's slow demise, which could last for years, or it could go more quickly. And in the meantime, it's unsightly.

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So we're going to go ahead and quote for that wall, that wall, which I'm going to say that is going to be about 30 feet, give or take 35. Maybe then we have this wall here down to there, right at the tip of the boat there.

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And I want to quote on getting those fabricated concrete blocks that we have at our yard that have a nice finish on the front, on the face. And we'll stack those with an excavator. And then we're essentially going to dig up this foundation and undo the backfill. We're going to have an electrical conduit right here, which we'll have to hand dig and expose that it's probably not very deep about 18 inches or so we'll dig around that.

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But basically we're going to dig down from right about, at the back of that a little barrel and go out four feet from the foundation. And we're going to dig down to the base of the foundation, which is going to be about five feet down here in the back. About three to four feet down here on the side, we're going to dig along here. We're going to put drain pipe in the bottom and we're going to backfill almost the entire thing with crushed rock, or we could do river rock, I think crushed rock, just like this stuff here.

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And we're going to dig down to the bottom of the foundation here to four feet out all the way along here. This is going to be demoed. This is demoed. Um, this will be demoed and then we'll get to join the two drain pipes together right here and come out this way towards me. And then out into the bottom of this swell here. And if we hit rock through here, we're going to have to break it. We're going to dig out here.

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So this a propane tank will need to be located as well. Um, we're going to do separate quotes for mitigating the mold. This mold mitigation is an active mitigation scene. This is time is of the essence. So we could potentially charge a rush fee on this, um, and get in here on the double the next week or something.

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And then this is a we're ventilating this so they can keep us dry, keep the mold from coming back. So, um, then any other excess dirt is going to come out here. And so our drain pipe is going to come out this way and we're going to backfill it.

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And then we'll be coming in with, with gravel and we'll come in through here with gravel and then we'll need to reshape this when we're done, um, potential throw some straw and seed. And then over here is where we're going to put additional, um, excess soil. We're going to either bury that or, I mean, we could throw any excess concrete in here and then we could bury it with, with our dig spoils for this trench will be daylighting our, our drain pipe out into here.

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So actually it's liable deeper than five feet. So it's probably closer to eight feet. Um, yeah, so I'm sure I misquoted Ms. Estimated the amount, but it's probably going to be closer to the 10,000 is my guess, but we can just do a major drain at the bottom and we'll add it all up.

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I think it's going to be about 10 loads of gravel. Give or take about a hundred, a hundred cubic yards. We can try to pull some measurements off of Google and put together a quote or an estimate. So that's that.

Little Bear Village Begins Ground Preparations

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The class one structural fill. This makes three of the other days, it just takes five it's out of the Albert Fry, pet it, same stuff, material. That's just basically the waste.

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We're rolling it in with that sheep's foot roller compactor walk behind remote control. And we got this lot graded out here, reason our laser guided grading system. And we've got this, this whole drain portion here, perfectly level with the laser laser beam. We've got the Kubota here taken care of many work at the loader, pushing it all around.

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So it's a really good setup right here. So we don't have to switch such buckets and grater out. So it's just all going real smooth, some groundwater right there. So that's a challenge, basically. You're just going to put a drain in at that elevation whole lot. It's going to drain it up. Pink flag up there, green to how-to. Dennis wants it. The original engineer plan calls for draining it from this corner to the Creek out there, draining it to that, that little culvert right there would be sure.

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Nice. But Dennis is a workout, something with the owner here..

Building pads in unstable soil

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All right. Hey, good morning guys. This is Jesse. I'm going to make a quick video of the little bear village soil preparation project that we have underway here. We have all the topsoil stripped away and got to have it all in this big pile here. It's probably about a hundred yards.

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Do you ever paid.

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Then 10 dump trucks, lots of metals. So we have some saturated soils and some ground water in here. So we're going to go ahead and start loading up some of this four to six inch of cholesterol crush pad in here. Over here, we have all of our structural fill. We have class one structural fill here on the front, a little bit of recycled concrete here, as well as some classics road base in the back there. So are well supplied with some good structural backfill in here.

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So in here, cause see, we've removed all the top soil over here. We do have some groundwater coming in. I am working on getting the soils engineer over here on site bill Wilkinson, and he will be advising on how to handle this groundwater here. I see his plans call for two and a half, two feet, eight inches above the groundwater is hard.

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Top of slab, top of finished floor. So I'll be loading up this with some coarse aggregate rock.

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And then we do have a perimeter drain. We have a bed of three quarter inch crushed gravel around the entire perimeter with the perimeter drain four inch perforated pipe in there. We have some frozen ground here. We expose this and last night it froze. So this got cold. This is all pumping. This is all saturated soil here. So the chat with the soils engineer and see how he wants to handle this.

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I believe this is mostly snow melt, but there's probably also some groundwater underneath this whole area might be looking and dealing with an underground river right here. This is where the previous building was also sitting and this is a low spot. Doesn't really have any drainage at the moment. So we're in discussions with the property owner about where to drain this, this site to drain it over there or over this way, the pros and cons to each.

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But really what we're needing to do is just come up and get this, these buildings up out of the groundwater out of the ground, get them up high.

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And make sure.

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That they have plenty of positive slope away from these buildings. Water, no water can get away.

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So just matching the, the detail on the foundation that orange dot right there is 12 inches above our standing groundwater. And then we're coming up to foot eight inches for our top of finished grade, which is to right there, right at the top of our existing grade. And then six inches up from there is our slab top of slab.

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It's like we're in business. We're going to go ahead and fill this.

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Hole with.

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Four to six inch crushed rock right here, stabilize the soil. All right, so we're building this up. This is all rolling pumping soil. We're building this up with four to six inch crushed aggregate coming out of Albert Fry and we're bringing in another load of this and these shockers, they had the wrong address. So this their second load of rock, they were supposed to get us three and then that'll be fine though. I just don't necessarily want to pay for them, losing those in their way.

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Uh, all the other trucks have made it just fine. So I don't know what's wrong with these guys anyway. So we're going to get that dumped right in the corner there and we'll bring it in, bring it over into here. This is a class one structural fill. We're going to just start filling this up. We've got good stable heart, ground, dry ground here. And Dennis wants to chat right now. The surveyor and the original architect has this lot or this floor elevation higher than this one. And then we're sort of the natural low spot of this whole site is, is down here in this corner.

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And so Dennis and I right now are discussing and trying to figure out how to achieve this drainage plan and basically pitched the whole lot over into here.

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These guys are rookies, man. That'll break a frame too, right there. Got it all worked like that.

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How's it going? You guys, you got lost in the morning, man. Is that right?

Dispatch Notes 4/7

• Commercial development project start at Little Bear Village

• Wrapping up Redwood

• Sewer line installation

• Mobilizations and Site visits

Jordan, Ryan, Becky, & Jesse in the field

Angoe in the office

Bill, Tristen, and Blake are off

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Hey guys. So this is a foundation backfill that we got coming up. We're basically about done with the Redwood backfill. And so this is going to be our next one. This is the Crestwood one where we did the septic. We dug this out last Paul with the large excavator and we'll be getting a shaker head attachment so we can pack into all these nooks and crannies as we're all going to be a big slab. This is a little showcase from, this is a little showcase from a dig that Becky did last fall as well. And this is our three Oh four that's down at the shop right now.

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Cause it overheated this morning.

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All right. Hey guys, this is Jesse. I'm going to go over dispatch with you guys for tomorrow.

It's going to be April 7th tomorrow. So what we have is Ryan, we'll finish up down below at the Redwood job for Jacques, uh, spread the crushed concrete around and any other touch ups that you can wrap up down there. You might want to start. I don't know, a little bit later just to let the mud dry out a little bit.

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Cause you got clay down there. It's going to be a sopping wet mud box. So, you know, if you could let the sun headed for a minute and I have not checked the weather, but I think it's going to be a good warm nice day tomorrow. Anyway, you're going to get things touched up down there. I am going to line out Becky first thing in the morning, let's meet at the shop at seven 30 Becky and we will head over to little bear village where we will start prepping the pads for Dennis's two duplexes that he will be building there.

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We're basically going to be removing the top soil and coming back in with structural fill and compacting as we come up and lifts. And uh, that'll be, that'll be that for tomorrow. We'll probably do some utility stub outs into the building as well. So we will talk about that tomorrow. Jordan, you're going to finish up what you had going on there today. Resume work. If you can get me a list in the morning of the remaining materials that you need, I will pick those up in Boulder tomorrow morning and then Ryan will come up and provide some assistance to you once he's done at Redwood.

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So Ryan, that'll be your second app. The day assignment will be to head up to Magnolia and help out Jordan. If you, you know, it takes you longer than you think and you can't get up there. It's not the end of the world.

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And if Jordan, you know, if you can't make headway without a helper tomorrow, no big deal. We can come back on Thursday and wrap it up over there on Thursday. Right? I think we can get Ryan up there in the afternoon. No, no problem. And you guys should be able to make some good headway up there and Magnolia, I think that's about it. I can't think of anything else. I have some site visits out in evergreen in the afternoon, so I will be on the road in the afternoon and I'll never green.

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And other than that, bill, you're going to be off trusting. You'll be off working on railroad cars somewhere and Blake, we're going to keep you waiting in the wings on the sidelines for a little while longer. We'll try to get you going here in a little bit, got a lot of projects ready to pop. So just kind of waiting on weather and that's that I believe that's dispatch.

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Becky, I'll see you at seven 30 in the morning at the shop and we'll get ready to start a new project. Oh, wait a minute. We don't have an excavator. So Becky, you're going to have to wait for me to go down to Redwood in the morning and get an excavator from the Redwood job. I'll probably go and grab the Kubota so that we can use the nice big three foot bucket.

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So that is going to be that. So Becky, you're going to have a late start tomorrow, probably plan on starting around 10 30 or so. I will call you when I'm heading back up the Hill. That's tomorrow's dispatch. Thank you all for working hard and have a good time out there and be safe.

We hit a live waterline and made a clever fix

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All right. We're down here on Redwood and Boulder, Colorado doing this foundation, excavation and installation backfill. You've got Ryan working on utilities here in the Kubota front bill is spreading our site soils around and Becky is trenching for the perimeter drains. So she can go ahead and start to get that thing. Daylighted she's got it. The other excavator here. So we've got two excavators. We're going to get a sheep's foot roller compactor in here a little bit later today.

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And, uh, that's going to be good. Jordan is going ahead and marking the foundation for all of our elevations and show him where he's going to be putting the giving marks for our operators to work off of, for, uh, top of there, where we're going to be backfilling to. And then he's going to hop in the middle here. We'll be filling the entire interior of this for a slab on grade.

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So this is all gonna be brought up with lifts. We'll do 10 inch lifts with the roller sheet split compactor in here. So we do have expensive soils in here. So we're going to end up later taking these, uh, expensive soils with some cobbles and sand that's going to be coming in from another job site. It'll be coming in here tomorrow. So today is a lot of prep work and kind of getting ready. And then we will be filling up this whole boy. And we're going to try to get all this done in about a week. Uh, we'll throw all our hands at it, all our operators just kind of keep it going.

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Here's where the water lines coming out and we're going to run converted over to packs and then run our locating wire along with it. So it can be found we're going to stick this frost-free valve in here. So we'll dig a hole right here and fill it up with crushed concrete. And then we'll tie that together with a compression fitting, a little bit piece of copper, and then we'll convert it over to PAX. And we'll run with our SharkBite Barb fittings in our,.

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Our crimping tool. We're going.

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To run the water line right along the bottom of this trench here, dive it down into the bottom there. And we have that little knockout there and we'll be going into the mechanical room in here where we have everything and we do need to maintain.

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Feet of separation underground between our sewer and our water. And we just have it right there. So I'm going to go talk to these guys here and see how things are coming. And basically we're going to start putting the job site to bed 90 night job site. It's a children's book forthcoming. All right. So right here, Jordan, Brian, Jesse, we just, I just hit this water line here and see it down the hall.

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And what we did is we, it, and it was,.

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Can we just cut it off.

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With Ryan's a reciprocating saw there and then we bent it over and kinked it to slow down the flow. And now what we're going to do is cut it. It's going to start spewing water, like crazy. And we're going to stick this, a ball valve on there and with a compression fitting and tighten it down and it's going to be squirting out the end of our 10 foot pipe there. And then once we get that, uh, once we get that compression fitting nice and tight, then we'll shut off the bowel valve and then we'll, uh, continue on with our repair and get a nice, nice splice on the down stream side.

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And then we'll open up the ball valve and, uh, make sure there's no leaks. And then we will bury it, continue on with our, our work.

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Cut pressure pressure pressure backward, Jesse, you almost lost your private parts.

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Jesse got blasted in the face and then not look out far too.

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All right. Sorry. Method worked. It was pretty exciting. Definitely took a team effort. We got that all valve on there and shut it off. Alrighty, splice that up. Thanks to it. Opened up the ball valve a little bit, just a little squeak and letting it build pressure. No leaks yet. We'll blow out the other end here.

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See, let it all pressurize for.

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Right there. It is all pressurized,.

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No leaks.

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So that little knockout there at the base of the foundation is our sewer line. And we got a high spot right there. We're going to have to get over this trench and straddle it and dig this out a little more. Basically we hit the water line. We've got that repaired. That's more on the bottom of the hole, but our, our sewer line tie in right where we're going to be tying in is right in here somewhere. We've got about eight inches of fall, which is about one and a half percent, one, and a 1% slope is an eighth of an inch per foot. And that is considered by the national laboratories of material testing to keep a four inch pipe clean.

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So we're good there. We have basically utilized most of our pile here for our perimeter grading. We also took today and tied into the perimeter drain, which you can see right here.

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And we daylighted it out, down below, right down there. So between bringing up the grade surrounding the house and starting to backfill some of our mechanical room basement, we are running low on dirt. We still got a decent amount right through here. So we'll go ahead and continue to use all this dirt here. Um, and then we'll start with our interior backfill.

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We still also need to run the water line. So I'll show you guys that all right, what's up guys. That was day one down here at the Redwood job site. It was quite a doozy Ryan and I spent all day digging out this sewer line to try to get enough ball coming down from the house.

Check out how we plan to deal with the rock on this Rocky Mountain foundation installation in Nederland, CO

• 0:32 - 0:43 Hey Michael, Jessie here. We're out here at your job site. AJ's here. Miguel is here get some quick shots of them get the plans in there. • 0:46 - 0:50 Miguel is a master at these layouts and.

• 0:51 - 1:04 He taught AJ had to pull layouts, but we're back in the day. Anyway, so we have a discrepancy on the plans here. This is showing 20 feet wide on the on the existing house outside of. •

1:05 - 1:35 Outside of wall to outside wall and it's actually only 17 feet and change. So the 20 feet is there. So basically we're off by about 3 feet in terms of how these walls measure up across the bottom here versus up here. So this is 33 30 feet 3 inches and then if we pull these off of we pull these Corners off of this existing house, like it's indicated on the plans. We come up Shy to the tune of about two and a half feet. So,.

• 1:35 - 2:05 Basically need to make a decision and age is arguing that you don't want to shrink your house which nobody does. So we're going to go with the the wider and the larger of the two and we're going to assume that the house is actually wider than it is. So now we've gone through and we've pulled these out pulled these layout points. And what what what that means is we are going to actually have to get back in here and widen this out a little bit and because we're going to have to get back in here and widen this out. Anyway, we also.

• 2:05 - 2:35 So are we really we just have to break out a little bit of rock here? You know, I was hoping that we might be able to get to a stage here where we're going to be all right to pour but as it turns out, you know that's are outside of footing there in AJ has virtually no room to work in the back there to get his form boards up to strip them to do construction back in there. And so we're essentially going to have to get in here and take.

• 2:36 - 3:05 I think it's not going to be much and this is going to chip out quite quickly with the with the rock hammer and I'm guesstimating, you know, probably two hours of breaking Rock give or take and then we'll have the excavator in here to clean up the shrapnel. Let me know what you think of the idea of just taking that rock and Fanning it out down here into the crawl space and creating creating a level path somewhere. • 3:06 - 3:24 You're going to have mechanical things in here. We can put it down into that bottom corner, but just give you a level pad somewhere with with our Rock shrapnel that we're going to take out of there so you can have some some nice surfaces for for you some of your account mechanical equipment in here. This is where we're.

• 3:27 - 3:49 Guesstimating finished floor elevation just just for grins. We pull the string level across over here. But basically what I'd like to do then is as you can see this is this is where I'm guesstimating are counter for it to be this is 4 feet back. I think this is a little bit shy because AJ pulled his layout here, and this is outside of footing.

• 3:50 - 4:19 So this is more like two-and-a-half to three feet never take so this is probably a little bit shy this is a guesstimation that Becky and I did and then here's the other one basically right here. You know, I think we're doing a little bit better over here with our Rock So at the very least you just need to Chisel out a little bit of rock here. We need to widen out that corner due to that discrepancy in the plans and.

• 4:23 - 4:50 Yeah, that's the long and short of it. There's liable to be, you know, we're basically at our estimated budget of what we were shooting for right now. So we are we are exceeding Our Hope for Budget at this point and as we discussed before we got started the big X Factor was going to be the rock as it is we were able to rip out a lot of this Rock With The Ripping tooth and some rock teeth and a lot of hard work from Becky and.

• 4:50 - 5:02 And at this point we'll have a relatively minimal Rock breaking expense. It'll be above and beyond our hope for Target budget, but. • 5:04 - 5:28 Yes, that's where we're at with it. We should be able to keep things rocking and rolling and get back up in here this week. I'm going to anticipating and then AJ should be able to take over and work next week Monday or Tuesday, when actually the weather is getting warmer. It's going to be above freezing AJ. What do you think next week? Looks like we got warm weather. It's not even going to get below freezing during the night. So.

• 5:34 - 6:02 And so I think we should be able to turn the jobsite back over to Monday, which you got a nice long long warm stretch of weather. We have everything here all the materials here. There's enough rebar for more than the walls. All right. All right, that's it. So Michael call me and we'll talk about it and you give me the holy blessing also. Can you keep running for a second? We are going to need once once we get this fizzled out. We're going to go ahead and.

• 6:04 - 6:33 Well, basically what we're asking for is for the holy blessing from the engineer and so we can send this video on to the engineer as well. But we'd like to just dial into this and and have this this exposed Bedrock be our our counter Fort and so what we would need is a speck from the engineers to how deep he'd like us to go. I think a foot would probably be plenty of I don't know how realistic that is. Do we go for eight inches we go for six inches. Is there a speck?

• 6:35 - 7:03 How it's all rock. Yeah, so face is well, we could we could leave a void up there and not back the hundred percent of the way as well just to maintain our bra step. I mean we could backfill just to here and leave that as a little bored or how to be alone for foot cord, or it could either be filled with gravel and.

• 7:04 - 7:21 Walk away with some drainage or you know, it could be swelled out and just have it be whatever but that that would be an option to as far as if we wanted to concern ourselves with the strength and the retaining capacity of this wall through the wait what not. But either keep it drained. I don't think it means anything.

• 7:22 - 7:35 But that's not enough on it. So as you started building forms, he's gotten to the point now where he's ready to start doing the rebar and be good time for you guys to check in Michael and AJ.

Foundation backfill in Nederland,CO

• 0:01 - 0:30 Hey guys, this is Jesse here with Tristan high-performance Earthworks. And we're back filling over here another land on Wildwood. We got some imported Sandy Rocky material that we're bringing in from the Black Eagle pipeline project up there by Rollins Ville. We're back filling this entire Foundation Michael messenger. What up, you did a good job digging this thing and getting this thing dialed in we're doing the water line.

• 0:30 - 0:35 Right down in there coming out of Foundations going to go across. • 0:39 - 0:47 There's our bill. This is all good Sandy Rocky Phil Tristan using the dogs in the background there. • 0:50 - 1:06 So that's where the water line is going to come out right down there and then across there through that knock out there across the trench of the garage over there and then I'll buy the white truck Tristan's Chevy Gasser will.

• 1:08 - 1:13 Will white Collins truck, I guess this is going for the white collar vibe. • 1:17 - 1:37 For the repairs to haul your shit fair enough fair enough. So Tristan's manhandling this jobsite today taking care of business. We're going to put a thought wire on their bed that Wireline in squeegee. It's 3/4 inch type K flexible copper and that is the long and short of it.

Residential Foundation Excavation Generates Megatons of Dirt

Top of cap equals finished floor elevation. So we'll be able to pull everything right off of the top of that cap. That's far finished floor. So what I'm going to do is go through just do an initial scrape of the top three to four inches and get get our rahdert exposed so that we can see and then I'll go back through and I'll paint out all of our footprint again and when that's.

That's going to do is give us a chance to just really keep a good eye on our layout and then the garage is basically all out here. So we're going to try to leave this top soil intact as best we can there's our finished floor elevation here. So you just have to it's the same height as that other one is we got two spots we can pull from and shoot our laser from and we know that's where we're going to we're going to have a big cock.

Concrete slab here. So we're going to take all this down a ways maybe down 18 inches. If so, just remove this dirt and pull it all down at the footprint of this garage is not has not been surveyed yet for the garage. So the bulk of our work is basically going to be in this.

You know this this big excavation here, so we'll go ahead and and start removing the weeds and whatnot. And then we'll take it to working with equipment share on this machine rental is a 55 thousand pound excavator a deuce on DX 225 Carson. Gabbar. You can check them out on Instagram find him direct message them.

Get some some good rental equipment by whatever you need. You'll help you out. He's great. So this is our building site here and you can see some steaks. I'm coming up to and I got some initial painting down. We have 10 foot offsets with pink whiskers. Some of these have got knocked down driven over.

Possibly by myself, but we got the whiskers on the ground. So we try to preserve those as long as we can and if we gotta wipe these out we're going to set and pull further offsets off of here. So we got green whiskers for our actual Corners. These will get wiped out when we start digging and then we have our orange line that I just went ahead and connected the dots and got our footprint painted out. We do have some some jobs and.

Some squiggles in here. Let's see. I'm going over to there. So I'll go ahead and paint this now, but we're digging down about 12 feet of depth here and are finished floor elevation is about where I'm standing you can see we got a couple of steaks.
Got a nice little ant pile. It's going to get destroyed unfortunately.

Say a prayer for those ants but there's our finished floor elevation. All right. Hey, what's up guys? This is Jesse high-performance Earthworks. We're getting ready to start another excavation for revolve design-build company out of Denver. They're awesome to Great Custom Homes energy efficient professional super great to work with we've been doing a lot of homes with them. So we're getting ready to start this next excavation and give you guys a quick walk through real quick. All right. We're out here down here on Eldridge Street working with revolve design build on this excavation for this new house and we have a 12 foot basement to dig out for the entire footprint of this house and.

Oh my God, there's a lot of dirt. Look at this mountain that we're building over here just to stash and stockpile order 20-pin all of our top 6 feet over here on this pile. And then when we get down into our clay, we're going to start having to pile it up over here. And we can hopefully get it all out of the ground and make a mountain big enough to accommodate at all.

We've left our green actual Corners in the ground here and see those and in that Island there. As well as right here. So once we get this all Dugout will wipe out our our islands where our green Corners are. And then we'll Reese take it off because we still have our 10-foot offsets. We're doing everything we can to maintain and preserve throughout the excavation because as you can see there's a lot of traffic and a lot of dirt getting pushed around. So it's really easy to lose track of our of our survey points. Those are valuable indicators of where we're supposed to be we're supposed to put this house. Did you lose track at any time?

We can get off for Mark's trying hard not to see that. Enough to accommodate at all. We've left our green actual Corners in the ground here. You've already top 6 feet over here on this pile. And then when we get down into our clay, we're going to start having to pile it up over here. And we can hopefully get it all out of the ground and make a mountain. All right. We're out here down here on Eldridge Street working with revolve design build on this excavation for this new house and we.

Septic System Layout Overview

Alright, we're up here at 30 30 Eagle Ridge and we got their septic layout here. Originally. It was planned to put the tanks there in the field kind of here where I'm standing here. But as you can see we got several different test pits here. We got one close here, and we do have a mound here. So what I want to do is basically Nestle this field right in here. We're going to be 25 feet off of the house foundation. The setback is 20. So this is a test page here. You can see at the. • 0:32 - 1:01 Taller part of the cut or basically right there. We have, you know, three three and a half feet or so three and a half feet. And so we're going to be digging down to feet up here right at the grading stick. And this will be the center of the STA. We're right by this test fit. We're going to put one end of the STA is going to basically be kind of right in there by that rock there and the other one will be over.

• 1:02 - 1:06 There by that little let's see. • 1:08 - 1:11 Right there. You can see the orange Dot. • 1:16 - 1:40 All right there. So there's a orange dot will back it up. So basically we are going to shift the design just a little bit just shift the STA this way still maintain all of our setbacks and then our tank is going to go basically in the same spot. It's just going to come off the side of the house and Nestle right in there. • 1:41 - 1:48 And I will pump down into here and then we'll have a man or manifold will basically be right here and it's going to go in to the. • 1:50 - 2:02 End of the laterals and then we're going to be able to use all this material for our cover layer and that's going to all be come down here and cover this STA. And so that's going to be the most cost-effective approach. Hmm. • 2:05 - 2:08 There's our excavator up there that we're digging with. • 2:09 - 2:10 Having fun.

• 0:00 - 0:00 The video. • 0:02 - 0:05 How's the thing running you like it? • 0:06 - 0:08 This is Jordan Bartlett right here. • 0:09 - 0:32 Back from the Philippines and we're getting this big ass doosan from equipment share excavator 55,000 pounds from equipment share here in Bolt in Denver Carson Gabourey can find him on Instagram. You can set you up with a great rental if you want to buy one. You can sell you one as well. • 0:34 - 0:39 This is a giant hole sister. How's it going? Good? • 0:41 - 0:42 How's that how is it running that thing? • 0:46 - 0:59 Super casual. Wow, that's amazing. I can't wait to get in there and pull some levers. Are you gonna let me right now?

Evaluating Mounded Septic System in Lyons, CO

Evaluating a mounded septic system just outside of Lyons, CO

• 0:01 - 0:15 Rolling. All right. I'm up here with Jordan Bartlett operating job leading spearheading taking control taking this job by the by the Scruff of the neck and making it his. • 0:17 - 0:42 This is the first footing trench we got here. We just got the survey done. We got our blue flags and our pink flags are blue is our actual corners and our pink is our offsets and you can see on this wall here where we have basically this is where we're going to be kind of getting into most of the rock because we're a little deeper over here on the uphill side of the house. • 0:43 - 1:12 We have a lot of squiggly lines that we're going to need to be really ripping out as much of the rock as possible. I am trying to get approval from the engineer to not necessarily have to go down deeper over here, but rather backfilling and we could just set the concrete right on this existing grade. As one thing. I forgot to mention Jordan. I do have a call in with the engineer we could just try to dig out while we can dig out and then anyway, I'm going to shoot this. So this is the fuck the floor plan and the layout you can see it's kind of going every which way. • 1:13 - 1:17 And like that, you know, basically. • 1:19 - 1:28 Digging this intricate trench line with this big excavator is basically just going to. • 1:30 - 1:52 You know our big excavators not going to be so precise as all these little dog legs and turns so we'll end up just ripping out a big giant swath Earth here and hogging it all out and basically like from there. • 1:53 - 2:06 To they're just ripping all this all this material out and then the concrete guys can deal with fussing around with all these little intricate details on the turns and and what not. • 2:07 - 2:08 So. • 2:10 - 2:37 That's that I did have a question for the engineering team know if we could just set our footings right on this grade here and then backfill up to 36 inches out here on the outside here for our our Frost up if we could do that that would make things a lot more cost-effective on the excavation. • 2:39 - 2:46 And we would still need to get down over here for the for the garage because the garage will be coming in. • 2:49 - 3:08 Right on this ground level. So we would need to the garage I believe is from there over to here. So we would need to get this down below our Frost up three feet over to that corner where we do have some good Hard Rock. • 3:11 - 3:26 Right in here. We may or may not be able to rip it down with our 55 thousand pound doosan excavator DX 225. Yeah boy. • 3:34 - 3:36 That's what we got. • 3:37 - 3:43 Jesse Sievers high-performance Earthworks. Give us a like give us a subscribe. • 3:45 - 3:48 Keeping keeping the loop with what we're getting into.

New Construction Foundation Excavation in Golden, CO

Foundation excavation assessment in Golden CO

• 0:01 - 0:30 All right, Jesse high-performance Earthworks down here checking out this job that we're asking to being asked to estimate would do this on time and materials as I explained because it is a foundation. There's a ton of moving Parts different trades that we gotta coordinate with so many variables and aspects are difficult to predict but that said we are going to go ahead and put an estimate together and here we got this is the street view. • 0:31 - 1:01 The job site here. This is a nice neighborhood street. Not too busy. Nice and wide nice curves. The houses are kind of mid-range. I would say in the market, you know, it's not the Ritz but it's also not the ghetto. It's kind of mid-level. This is a bank finance job with First Bank. They thought that it would be okay to do a 50% deposit on the job. I see. • 1:01 - 1:24 Explain the $500 scheduling deposit that we do here. We have Xcel Energy gas lines right here. We have a water main here and the sewer line there in green. The water main goes in here. The one question is is if we do need to upgrade the water line 2 inch and a half in order to. • 1:26 - 1:55 Supply the fire suppression system, whereas what we have now is a three-quarter inch so there may be a chance that we got to get into the road here and come all the way into the road and do a new water line and tap into the main so that would be some possible utility work make Tristan super happy. Then we got the sewer line here, which is basically right under there. We can see a little bit of settling on that trench right there and that sewer line is supposedly 9 feet down. • 1:55 - 2:01 Just inside the sidewalk probably right at crack give or take. • 2:04 - 2:32 And here's the main here. So but this sewer line should still be intact. So we shouldn't have to get into the road per se. We just need to dig down nine feet right here, which is plenty deep and pick up the existing sewer line and get that. So here's the water main or the the water supply in the meter and that is right there off the sidewalk supposedly. The driveway is going to come in here the garage is going to be. • 2:33 - 2:35 And over here, we'll look at the plans as well. • 2:37 - 3:04 The crap the garage is going to be a slab on grade right up at grade level here. One question that I have for the contractor is if we are going to want to do a construction entrance and perhaps cover this whole grassy area right here in front with vehicle traction control also known as VT C 4 to 6 inch crushed granite in order to keep the mud off the street that's going to be kind of up to the general contractor and the building District to see if that's going to be a requirement. • 3:06 - 3:35 So now we're kind of coming in here. We're going to have our garage is going to be read in here somewhere footprint. And then the house is going to be the majority of this lot. As a matter of fact, we have a 7 foot off set off of the property line basically coming in seven feet to hear give or take but with the soils engineer in the soils report, they're calling us for us to do a five foot over excavation. So that basically takes us to two feet from the. • 3:36 - 4:05 Property line and a huge variable and question mark is if we're going to have to do temporary Shoring because we're going to have a nine foot vertical cut right here. And that is going to be a unstable Cut Bank right here. So there's a chance that we're going to have to figure out we do need to get that question answered if there's going to be some temporary Shoring required and how will we achieve that that. • 4:07 - 4:26 Potentially destabilizing undermine the foundation of this house here. Whereas if this house does have a basement which it may cause you have that low window there. We may not have as big of a concern there, but that's definitely a concern for just the safety of the excavation and the concrete contractors. • 4:27 - 4:47 So here is where the previous basement got excavated and that's the whole we're left with all of the house has been removed as well as the concrete and that's the whole that's left. And then and that is not quite 9 feet down probably about 8 feet down. • 4:49 - 4:57 And then we're also going to have to dig down and over excavate an additional 12 inches under our walls and fit back filled with gravel. • 5:00 - 5:02 For our foundation footings. • 5:04 - 5:34 A question I have is if that's going to have to be over excavated in back filled with gravel at the bottom below the slab as well. Also radon mitigation. What's the what's the protocol there didn't happen to ask that at the time of my meeting with the contractor. So the excavation is basically going to come all the way back to here give or take by the time we add in that five foot of over excavation. It's going to come in all the way to here this temporary power pole. • 5:34 - 6:01 It's going to get moved back over to here. But so we're going to have to have all of this Dugout down to nine feet plus and then two feet from that fence line and two feet from that fence line all the way up towards the beginning of that excavation up there and then a little nub left in place there. So this is a lot a lot of dirt and I'm guesstimating this is going to be somewhere on the order of. • 6:02 - 6:25 700 yards give or take I'm thinking about 70 tandems that will have to be removed from here. Most of it will just have to leave and never come back because this is going to be a giant basement. But some of it will need to come back in order to backfill that 5-foot void down nine feet right up against the building. • 6:27 - 6:32 So I think that is the long and short of it. • 6:35 - 7:03 Erosion control and stormwater management during construction, perhaps some straw wattles down along this fence line or and or a self fencing and that will be called for by the civil engineer probably or maybe there's a protocol that's already spelled out in the building code of the building District that we're working with we can just do what they recommend so. • 7:03 - 7:08 This tree is going to stay all that grass in the back is all going to get. • 7:10 - 7:14 Damaged and removed so we can. • 7:17 - 7:46 Not worried about that. There's a whole Landscaping plan that will get developed for this. It's not been developed yet for now. We're just going to try to get these guys ready for concrete and tie in their utilities as well. So that is it. It looks like I just did a quick calculation guesstimating 70 trucks of export at $300 of load. Those are just some wild-ass numbers, but that's 21,000 just for Trucking of dirt away. Also, Brandon. • 7:46 - 8:05 For revolve design-build he recommended that I check out the dirt Guild here in Denver and see if there's a line on coordinating the transport of dirt. So I will check that out do a quick search and see what we can do. That's all I got. • 8:09 - 8:14 This is Jesse high-performance Earthworks. Subscribe to our Channel and check us out.

Garage addition foundation excavation assessment

Foundation excavation assessment in Boulder City

• 0:03 - 0:33 Are there other possible change orders are if we have too much concrete and we need to take some of that to the dump. And also I don't know what the Tipping fees are going to be for the material that we will halt to the dump. So that is an unknown and then if we have topsoil to Holloway, we will be hauling that to the dump and what will the Tipping fees beyond that?

• 0:33 - 0:55 Is as you can see it's not a very large space here and our topsoil could be rather deep in this area. So they're made there is a unpredictable amount of Holloway for our topsoil and we're going to assume that the customer and the contractor are going to be okay with. • 0:58 - 1:04 Using and replacing this sod into the.

• 1:07 - 1:30 Into this area over here. We'll be building it up all the Rocks over there. And oh also we will be needing to bring in plywood because once we get all this removed will then be accessing that concrete for removal vis-à-vis plywood that we will be putting down on the lawn. So as not to damage it.

• 1:31 - 1:34 With our equipment and then removing that concrete from there. • 1:36 - 1:50 We'll be accessing that area breaking the concrete with a with our rock hammer and the loader and then swinging it into here with the excavator. Once all of this material has been removed.

• 1:52 - 2:05 And so will be removing this material from here and then basically shuttling it with the loader through here and over into that area behind those plantings there and those plantings will be removed as well. • 2:06 - 2:31 So that's the long and short of it. There's several mobilizations involved here one probably just to get everything ready for excavation. And then I'm assuming we can probably just go ahead and dive right into excavation. Well, we'll probably actually want to dig our utility trench over into here.

• 2:32 - 2:41 Hmm, how do we do that? Well want to dig our utility trench into the foundation then we will. • 2:44 - 3:10 Excavate for our concrete footings and then we'll put a conduit through the concrete footings for our our utility. I execute our utility trench here and then we'll back fill all of this and get it ready for the slab on grade will backfill and compact all of this and then we will.

• 3:14 - 3:41 Backfill our utility trench at that point after backfill of concrete here. There's liable to be a mobilization of second mobilization for the back fell from the initial excavation in the site prep. And then after we finish our our compaction in here, I will do any final clean up any touch-ups. We are looking to put. • 3:41 - 4:01 A straw wattle basically right in here where we're going to rip out all this landscaping and we'll have a straw waddle that will separate this construction zone and the future parking Zone from the existing lawn and the existing Landscaping that is not to be disturbed or damaged.

• 4:06 - 4:14 So yeah, I think I don't know just intuitively. I'm thinking it's going to be somewhere around 20 grand. • 4:18 - 4:47 We will want to verify that we have domestic water supply for our compaction. I anticipate this is going to be a very clay-like material. Maybe it's going to be more Sandy, but we will be using a jumping jack compactor in the event that we do have a clay-like material here and we'll want someone like Blake or someone who really knows and understands compaction to be leading this portion of the job, especially with the backfill and probably with the excavation of the foundation.

• 4:47 - 5:01 As well and then we want to sort of a landscape sensitive individual. Maybe someone such as Jordan to do something like prepping all of this area for the.

• 5:03 - 5:32 For the parking and getting the job site ready for for excavation of the footings. I think that about covers it. Oh this this parking area here is going to drain out this way. So it's going to kind of come and and dive off the alley that little high spot right there. We'll get graded down to where that will basically get graded to come in and drive.

• 5:33 - 5:35 In basically and then you can drive into the garage this way. • 5:37 - 6:00 But the water is essentially going to come here and it will go in there and then it will flow out this way basically right in this corner of the garage or of the parking area by the garage. So that'll just come right here and go then down the alley so that's how that's going to get graded. Hopefully that makes sense.

• 6:02 - 6:21 All right, so I did just measure the depth of this sewer line. It is 4 feet deep to the top of pipe from our existing grade right at the gravel there. So this is our back corner and our excavation will be out foot and a half or so almost two feet. • 6:22 - 6:26 On the outside and a foot and a half on the inside.

• 6:28 - 6:57 So we'll be right over that sewer line. But as we move out to the street, it is dropping so we should be fine not hitting that we will want to be careful not to mess up those risers those standpipes the cleanouts because that will make our lives much more difficult to have to redo those and we will want to be trenching right over the top at 18 inches over that.

• 6:58 - 7:28 Come in to the garage right here. There's a retaining wall right here. So we're going to be careful with that would like to have some of these trees limbed back a bit to give ourselves more room easy visibility and just less brushing up against our Machinery. So that is one thing I would like to request that the customer to go ahead and limb these back right to the right. • 7:28 - 7:58 Attaining wall here this retaining wall. We will leave it intact is doing a really nice job retaining the Earth there. One question for Jacques is just if there is any concern for the frost depth being deeper than what meets the eye here because of that shelf there. So that's one thing that I did forget to ask him. But let's see here. It actually looks like it is not really retaining much dirt. So there's no.

• 7:58 - 8:04 Certain there. This is fine. It's just a sloping off there and just a nice little edging piece. • 8:07 - 8:36 So that is about it. We are going to have a slope inside the garage coming up this way that I believe it would be two percent but I don't recall will have to review the plans for that and then we will be doing the interior backfill as well. And so some unknowns is if there is any top soil underneath this gravel, what is the suitability for compaction of our soils once we remove this gravel?

• 8:36 - 9:06 We remove the wood. We remove the concrete. We remove the vegetation and The Mulch and then what are we left with are we left with a structurally sound soil base at that point that we can then just build up from or there is always a possibility that this soil under here could be just be topsoil and we'll discover that when we dig our footings and not before so that is a possible change order that will need to.

• 9:06 - 9:35 It determined in the field as rest is as far as all the rest of it goes a couple other unknowns are if we're what kind of soil are we going to have and does the contractor want to make a determination of using our native soil that's going to come out of this trench for the interior backfill of this thing as well as the exterior back full right here because this is a parking area. So we will need to be achieving complete compaction on the outside of this wall and on the inside of this wall.

• 9:37 - 10:06 At the the front entrance of the garage around the perimeter here, we can achieve 95 percent compaction in my opinion. The contractor may have a different opinion about that. But on the exterior is not as crucial because a minor amount of settling is not is not too bad. Do we have a perimeter drain at the base of the foundation? That's another question and I didn't see one on the plans. So.

• 10:06 - 10:10 So if there is not one called for that's fine, but that's just. • 10:12 - 10:13 Worth noting I suppose. • 10:17 - 10:45 All right, this is Jesse. I performance Earthworks checking out this property for Jacques on 9/11 Ninth Street, and we're building a garage right here with a maroon car is and we're creating access right here coming in off the alley and we have a little bit of a grade change here. So basically I'm going to walk through quickly the work scope of this job will be pulling up. The fence posts will be removing these Boulders here.

• 10:45 - 11:15 And setting them aside over there right in between those trees will be removing all this top soil and vegetation a lot of the vegetation as well as these ties here will go to the dump into the landfill. This edging is nice material here can go to restore or the dump or set aside and possibly reused later here on this property there. • 11:15 - 11:45

Our sprinklers underground here, which will need to get cut as we discover the lines during excavation and then capped so that the sprinkler system remains intact all through here. All of this is not to be disturbed. We will be removing all of this concrete except for these two square panels that are underneath those buckets there those remain in place, but this Arc here.

• 11:45 - 12:15 Gets removed as well as this little crescent moon piece here this piece this piece this piece all these pavers will come out. This concrete will come out. This concrete will come out here and then all of this walkway concrete walkway will come out these pieces here will come out and these pieces here.

• 12:15 - 12:43 Here will come out there is a drain under here, which is not to be damaged. It is full of dirt now, but we don't want to damage this drain and the hopes that it could be restored and we may make have that restored that's not going to be off but they the customer may have that restored. All these Boulders are going to come out all these Boulders here all these Boulders here. • 12:46 - 13:15 These Boulders here will come out and this wall will come out basically right to this crack right there. All of this concrete will all get stockpiled into the parking area of the garage which is going to be right here and then we will use our rock hammer to break up the pieces into basically 12-inch - if there is any rebar in any of that will pull the rebar out and take that to the dump.

• 13:16 - 13:24 I don't think there's gonna be any rebar in that concrete and I think that it's all going to break up nicely and create really nice Phil here for this being the parking area. • 13:27 - 13:44 This is all going to be brought down and we will remove the topsoil that's here and all of this lawn and the topsoil and The Mulch and possibly some of the smaller plantings will all be. •

13:47 - 14:15 Basically filled in right here. This is going to be restored as a lawn area. And so that will make good soil for the lawn of the future that will go right here. There's going to be a retaining wall here, which we will not build but basically from right here nine feet out from the house will get filled with all of our tops. Oily material. We won't come up past. • 14:16 - 14:24 The current level of the lawn actually will be two inches below the current level of the lawn right here with our backfill of our.

• 14:25 - 14:37 Organic material on our soil Building Material then we're going to dig a trench which will be an 18 inch trench for the electrical through here. • 14:38 - 15:06 All the way through here and through this fence that will not be here anymore and out to the footprint of the garage. So now we'll go out here. I'll show you guys what's out here. So we have more ties and concrete that is going to the ties will go to the dump. The concrete will go into there.

• 15:08 - 15:37 A gravel here. We'll all get scraped aside into a stockpile that will then go and we'll probably put that into a stock pile right here where these roses are the Roses will get hauled to the dump. These posts were gonna pull out with a chain chain onto them and pull them out of the ground with the excavator and these posts will go to the dump roses will go to the dump larger plantings of go to the dump.

• 15:37 - 16:07 And all of this gravel can get stockpiled basically right where those Roses are. Hmm. And then once we get the concrete broken up and packed in there real nice into this area, then we will be able to spread. Let's see, what we'll do is we will excavate our footing trenches which will be 36 inches below our final grade. Which this is basically our.

• 16:07 - 16:27 Final grade right here. So we will do our footings about three feet wide. I believe maybe 40 inches wide. So three feet six inches wide just to give the concrete guys plenty of room to work. We do have a sewer line here. I will check the depth of the sewer line one.

Storm water permit Preperation for an excavation in Boulder County

• 0:01 - 0:31 All right. Jordan is going to be your assignment for tomorrow is getting this place ready for stormwater permit. So basically what we have to do is get this job site ready for managing the stormwater and I'm just going to walk you through it real fast. Nice and quick. This is a 12 by 12 box that is a construction entrance and we're going to put VTC right here, which is basically three to six inch crushed rock. So that's all going to cover this and this is going to be where the trucks are going to come and go and Stage to get loaded.

• 0:31 - 1:01 And what not these these bales of straw are basically just to protect the trees these baby trees in the back. It's just kind of a visual barrier there and then right over here is our staging area. So we're going to run straw waddle says waddle there. We run straw waddle all around here. And this is where we'll put our premium topsoil or anything that we want to preserve and keep on site.

• 1:01 - 1:31 This is where the the build is going. So we're doing a small Greenhouse Foundation here. So basically right here, which is going to be Downstream of the excavation right along this Orange Line. Never mind. This one. We're going to erase that one if we can but this outer one that's where we're going to put our self fence. So with the silt fence, you're basically going to dig a 6 inch trench 6 inches deep you're going to.

• 1:31 - 1:54 Roll out the silt fence Drive the stakes in the ground and then there's a little flap at the bottom that will kind of go under and cut the dirt and then you back fill and get that flap to kind of cut the dirt and hold hold the bottom of it in place. So this is the only thing he exposes for us so we could avoid these just don't drive Stakes right into there where you see it and then we'll go ahead and run out here.

• 1:56 - 2:25 And right along here all the way to the house and then right at that little walkway there. We're going to go ahead and put a little bit of straw wattles so that we can walk in and out right there. So you got some more utilities here. These are pretty deep so your self fencing stakes and these run right like that and then over there. So you're still fencing sticks will hopefully avoid this and so that's that string is where these sprinkler lines are and you can see that's.

• 2:26 - 2:27 Is that right there? • 2:34 - 2:43 So now we're coming around to the backyard here or actually I guess is the front yard and this is where we have the porta potty.

• 2:44 - 3:06 And we'll be taking these these little ponds here. Those will be our concrete washouts. You stick that right next to the Outhouse and then we'll do a little ring of straw waddle that goes around here. And this is going to be our quote unquote our staging area for Holloway material when we need to button it up at the end of the day.

• 3:07 - 3:33 And so some straw water goes here and access is going to be difficult here. It's really no good turn around. You know that even the driveway is super tight. You can't really turn around with a trailer. So and dumping here is also going to be difficult. So it's basically going to be wanting to kind of angle in as best you can dump right here and then we'll spread out this VTC as best we can.

• 3:35 - 4:05 This is going to be difficult with loading trucks and coming and going and what not. You can see it's really tight Road know where to pull off really and we're going to make a little something right here for coming and going we're going to probably need to back our dump trailer and right here. We're going to excavate down there and load the dump trailers we go. We're going to end up living these trees back a bit to create access for are calling set up and getting in and.

• 4:05 - 4:29 There maybe we'll do a little grating in here, but we don't really want to get all the road run off going into into our work Zone either. So we'll have to kind of work with that. Great as it is is best we can I think maybe we'll we'll grate it out, but it's got a nice. Well, they're keeping the keeping the storm water off of the yard. So if we can keep that little berm, that would be ideal.

Snow removal with heavy machinery

• 0:06 - 0:29 All right. I got stuck in the snow and luckily I was able to call Mike is back at the shop and he can come and get me Dugout here because this road was already plowed once but the drifting at basically just closed it in. So thank God I got a I got a helper with with the skid steer on hand ready to go.
• 0:31 - 0:46 Because as you can see, I am stuck and I was going good. Just driving home ready to go home and do some office work and call it a day and a day of fun plowing and having a good time.
• 0:48 - 1:02 Actually, I was up doing some powder surfing you can see my board there in the back, but it wasn't that much fun in the snow just wasn't wasn't laughing goes. Let me slide slide. Feel free the way I like to do. So.

• 1:09 - 1:14 I'm going to get pulled out here Dugout. Mike's gonna dig me out.

• 1:17 - 1:18 Time lapse on here.

• 1:58 - 2:27 The snow snow is a good place to practice aside from getting stuck other than getting stuck which is a pain in the ass. It's good way to practice you can get stuck in the dirt and the mud too. So.

• 2:28 - 2:33 Think about getting stuck in the snow as it usually doesn't do as much damage to the equipment.

• 3:54 - 3:56 We have traffic backed up as well. • 3:57 - 3:58 So.

• 4:00 - 4:02 This ought to be interesting. • 4:04 - 4:07 This one's gonna hopefully back not back into me.

• 4:16 - 4:25 Excuse me. Covid rating appreciated art. • 4:28 - 4:29 You moving water around. • 4:33 - 4:34 Smooth.

• 4:36 - 4:37 Drainage and compaction. • 4:45 - 5:08 Grating Caterpillar motor grader here chains and a plow push plow.

• 5:13 - 5:19 I'm over here. We got the same thing. This is a John Deere push plow from Four Rivers rental company.

• 5:21 - 5:24 Four Rivers their source of road graders.

• 5:25 - 5:44 Case we need to rent one and point The Wider this gets I should be able to get out here that's got to come out of his way all this traffic in.

Snow plowing with skid steer loader and motor graders.

Road grading repair in the mud and snow

It's not the best time to do this repair but this was an emergency service request from a neighbor and general contractor in the area so I went out to take o...

• 0:01 - 0:21 All right, so I'm right here in town in Netherland. Just got a call from a neighbor who's a general contractor. He's up here just up the block from my shop. So he had a little emergency service and repair from the dumpster truck who tore up his rut in the road right here.

• 0:23 - 0:52 And then also bent over the valve box here. So I brought up the skid-steer and we got some gravel there and some structural fill over there behind and I'm trying to do a quick fix for him here and just add infill into this rut so that they can hopefully be happy but we got some major saturated material here. We're not going to get any compassion, but we can fill it in and let it dry.

• 0:53 - 1:22 Hope for the best but this is water box here is definitely an edge a wrench in the Wheel Works. And you know, I was just finishing up dinner with the wife and now I'm up here and I'm happy about it. Actually. I love this stuff can't get enough of it. And I'm probably just going to take care of my neighbor here and no charge for this emergency service call is my.

• 1:22 - 1:26 Burr last time we did a job for him. He.

• 1:27 - 1:29 He got a little upset with one of my guys whose.

• 1:30 - 1:33 Maybe what kind of hurt his feelings or something but.

• 1:36 - 1:59 So yeah, I want to just try to help him out and do what I can to get some good karma some good Juju sand neighbor and this is what we got to do in these times and you know, maybe he'll give me a referral give me another job and you never know. It just feels like the right thing to do for me right now is feeling generous. So that's what we're doing. So I got that straightened out now. I need to pull the lid and see if it's still.

• 2:01 - 2:30 If it didn't damage the water buffalo box underneath it, the water shut-off box basically looks like this and this is a screw top that scoot cabbie you unscrew and then you stick a key down into this pipe and that's connected to the shut off if you set that on or off and turn that on so if that pipe bent in the City utility companies not going to be able to get their key down there.

• 2:30 - 3:00 Where they can shut the water on and off so we don't know if that's the case here that I need to be investigated on on a dry day. Not now. We're into the gun on a tight timeline. So we're going to do it. We can't hear for him. I'm just gonna bury this and fill this in and call it good call it a day what we're going to do. We got some inch and a half crushed rock right here. We're going to take that first and we're going to put that down first and check it in a little bit maybe or just dump it in loose and and keep going because.

• 3:00 - 3:30 This is just it's not the time to be doing this job that mud there is all saturated. We're not going to get compaction anyway, and then we got some structural fill their that I'm going to cap it with we're going to hope for the best and hopefully that'll hold up. All right hold that's that we're done got this filled in here and give it a little touch up with the rake. That's completely saturated mud down probably 2 or 2 feet deep.

• 3:30 - 3:54 Deep saturated saturated dirt mud and I tried to get the drainage to kind of go through there and stay off the road because as you can see, we got a nice big rut right here. So that's what that's what we're going to call good for now. Maybe I'll touch up these tracks right here in the road and then go home and.

• 3:55 - 3:56 Have myself a.

• 3:57 - 3:58 Nice adult beverage.

Driveway grading bid in Boulder County, CO

Assessing 3/4 mile driveway grading and repair job in Boulder County, CO. This driveway will need some grading touch ups and some added class 6 road base. It...

Alright, I'm checking out this. Driveway grading job and it looks like it's a Circle Drive that we have. Crushed rock AP C Class six on the road here and the customers asking for a grading job a little more material and some dust sealant and then checking all the Culverts for proper drainage so we can service all the culverts as well. And this is a nice little job. It's a quarter or 3/4 of a mile rather comes through here.
This is a nice property. Obviously they can they can handle. Some budget for maintenance of this road. It's an ice road to begin with but it does look pretty thin. So that's where I'm looking at the right tool for the job. I would love to bring in a little mini greater to take care of this grading job, and I would like to do with a roller a nice nice wide roller and work the greater and the roller in conjunction with each other and ideally we get a rewarder trailer in here, too. So Water trailer greater roller. That's our combo we can take care of all kinds of all kinds of driveways with that setup.

We're looking here doesn't look like we have a culvert here. There's some. Some poor drainage we could definitely use one. Ideal spot for the Culvert but I would also want to bring the road up right here to get across get over the Culvert probably go for a 12-inch Culvert and. Probably about well, really three two, two three loads of fill structural fill and then we can cap it with the class 6 road base. That's what I'd like to do here. There's obvious drainage problem.

So continuing on we have a lot of material is gotten pushed off of the Road by the plows. That's another reason why a mini road grader would be an excellent tool for this job. It is a tight Road. It's a small Road hardly warrants a full size. It doesn't warrant a full size road grader because it would just get too cramped in here, but. There is a lot of material here that we could just gently bring back onto the road. Without scraping down through it. And then cap up are thin spots.

From there. So nice roadway. For the most part over goodness decent job. This is another spot for a culvert Maybe. We're going to check this out. Yes indeed. Definitely could use a culvert right there as well. I didn't notice any other spots so far. I'm almost inclined to go back through it. But this embankment is also. Unsightly on the on the right hand side here. So just kind of cut and be nice to kind of feather that back into the hillside just to stabilize it a little bit and Define this these ditches. There's some drainage spot right there to catch drainage and plenty of fill dirt so we could actually use that to build up some of our spots where we like to do the convert.

It's not going to go very far, but it is something. And here is another nice little stockpile of road base. We can probably dip into not very much but not nothing. Here we need definitely another Culvert situation. This looks like there might be a culvert and place already the that no, I don't see any Culvert here. So there's basically a big tree right where the Culvert should be. That would need to be considered we could drain above that tree if we can build it up. We could take that tree out we could probably avoid it. It looks like somebody had an idea to do a culvert there. I could go poke around in the snow a little bit better. I'll probably go do that.

All right, I'm out here now and I do see that there is a culvert here doesn't look like we're getting really much runoff. This Culvert doesn't seem to be getting. Did L do this driveway is not that old it was done. Not that long ago. You can see by the still got scratches there and that should be covered with pine needles and erosions kind of washing that dirt those little clumps down. You can basically still see the teeth of the excavator. But yeah, this is not working. This should drain along this embankment down into here. That's not happening.

Obviously. It's just coming to right here. And then this one is well should come into here, but really I don't see a whole lot of water Gathering right there. It's an appropriate spot for a culvert cuz he just have this little bit of low spot here. But really the. The water is all just kind of going down right here. It's not doesn't seem to be a drainage issue per se but well we could touch up that drainage right there. So that's that's one one thing we'll do is we'll make sure that everything is draining in from both sides off the road and we don't have this puddle here in the bottom. We should really just build this up a little bit as well down here at the bottom and that will be easy to easier to push the the water into that Culvert then so I'd like to do a basically a tandem of road base right through here right in the bottom. Alright continuing on here got a nice little pull out just do a little that mean it's all in good condition doesn't really need anything. All along here.

This material could get pulled out. It'd be nice to kind of feather and make this tree really should go it's too close to the roadway. It's gonna continue to encroach on the roadway with branches big trucks are going to hit there anything on on those overhanging branches that tree really should be taken out for proper proper driveways backs. When a 14-foot Corridor 14 feet high might be 16. It's. Approaching there. Other than that so looking pretty good, you know, obviously the embankment could get cleaned up a little bit and shaped back right here is actually a great example of where this is cut back in a nicer way and you not left with a jagged edge. It does look better. It's holds up there the soil stabilized so we could do that on all of these.

All of these cots here. All this is looking pretty good. Definitely. Some money went into this driveway. There's little the fill dirt right there. This could all get shaped back. This needs ditches on the sides and to be crowned. So that's something this do that tree is kind of encroaching. These trees are kind of almost encroaching, but that can probably pass stay. He's Aspens are encroaching. Some work we could do to make this a better better driveway.

This could all just get crowned in this ditch along the uphill side to find a little better that tree should come out get clipped back at the very least. Can't really see the drainage on here. But obviously it's not working to plow guys and clearing this snow back far enough. It was a really heavy snow can't blame him. There's a ditch here. Basically, this is why you need grading done at least twice a year because no matter what you do you're going to have issues with your driveway up here in the mountains. It's going to require maintenance.

That's why roads get maintained and everything gets maintenance. Here's some good material. Would be nice to have a little more definition on the uphill side for a drainage ditch. It's not really doing anything right now. Not catching anything and drainage. This is pretty much non-existent throughout this whole driveway. Push all this material into these potholes roll it out should be good to go needs to be built up though. Go for a tandem right there through those potholes and what not. Just Build It Up keep it dry. Lost my dog. This is a steep spot. Be nice to not have that be so steep. Could be done there, but I guess we're going to go with it. It's already. It's what we got. It's not broken.

This tree is encroaching as well. There's some gorgeous rocks right there fun to build something. Oh that's just needs to get crowned ground and rolled. The point six. Of a mile hair is gorgeous property. I'm Blown Away. This is the some rehab center. It makes me want to go get rehab but you got to do before you can get rehab kind of get strung out about that. Very happy to say I just need rehab food Round to try and break the addiction food and farting. It's good. Just get it graded.

Great and rolled. Most of it can just get graded and roll down big nice. Gorgeous. I need a water truck actually is encroaching. He's he's got got Nick as well. It's about the end of the road. Nice. Nice lodger. This could get raised up looks like this would be a good spot for a culvert as well. Although I do we got some fire sister and over there. This is a tough drainage spot for sure. What are we going to do here? See we got basically like a sinkhole right there.

Right at the base of that wall. We got a drainage issue. Boy, are we gonna do really all this whole great needs to be brought up. Or I need to get out and go look over there and see if we can just keep going with that grade. Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. Oh, yeah, you can see it seeping through right here. Nice place that's got to be the leach field out there. Yep. You can see the septic out there in the distance. So this is where this is all draining through right here.

It's probably compromising the footing of this wall. Can I have some cracking? Well, it's a dry stack wall, which is super cool. Love this wall. Actually, this is all let's see. Yeah, there's a lock together dry stack wall fun. That's how we could build dry stack. You got some drain holes down there in the bottom. Guess that works. Just need to get a culvert in here. But in order to do that, we've basically just have to bring it up with probably about thinking about 3 3 tandems.

Let's bring this up. I would beat all through here and then. Get a culvert to drain all this water across and into the into the base of the wall. It seeps out over here. Basically. Looks like this is kind of a drag goalie. Looks like the septic is right up next to it. I don't know if that fly these days with Boulder County, but there it is. So we got a wet spot right down in here. It's almost surface water. It's a spring it's all going in right here and soak in all upstream and then soak in and then coming out of the hillside down there. It's cool hydrology. So yeah, that's what I think we should do here put a culvert in place if there's not one already and raise this up with water keep doing what it's doing.

And I don't see any signs of the Pollard anywhere and we. And to go to Crazy coming this way with all the water. You got to get up to here. I think that's a lot bigger material requirement. Just kind of keep it going in the same way. All right, that's it. Check out that driveway. Thanks for watching. Give us a subscribe. And day. Smash the like button like with an excavator bucket Smash It smash it that hard put a hole in your screen.

Foundation backfill in Jefferson County

Foundation interior backfill completed. We had to import fill in order to compensate for the freezing conditions were working with. Our native material all froze so we couldn’t use effectively. @michael62491 crushed it spearheading this backfill effort. He’s putting the high performance in High Performance Earthworks. Photo credit 📷☝️ @michael62491 #earthmoving #earthmovers #excavating #dirtwork #miniexcavator #landdevelopment #excavation #heavyequipmentlife #earthmoving #excavationlife #excavationbusiness #coloradoconstruction #highperformanceearthworks #bouldercountyexcavation #jeffersoncountyexcavation #coloradorealestate #earthwork #earthworkbrotherhood #earthworkersforlife #nederlandcolorado

Grey water tank abandonment in Boulder County

Septic and wastewater systems in Colorado are a big deal. If you own one or if you are representing a client owner who has one or is imperative that you understand the legal requirements to owning an on-site waste water system. Here we are abandoning an existing and illegal greeter system in Boulder County, COLORADO. The regulation call for onsite wastewater system to be properly abandoned by a licensed onsite wastewater installer in the county where the work is being done. Proper abandonment of a water water tank involves pumping it out and destroying the tank such that it won’t hold air or water. In this case, as we’ve demonstrated in the video, we pumped it out and then entered the tank to puncture the bottom. We them filled it with squeegee and spoils from another job we recently completed. You can see in the video that this is a confined entry situation which calls for extensive safety considerations. OSHA lays out standards for the proper ways to enter a tank or any confined space. I had a close call on this job because there was a false bottom in the tank and the tank was actually much deeper than it originally appeared to be. Luckily, I was able to notice before anything catastrophic happened and it was a good learning opportunity for myself and my co-worker.

Setting a fire cistern in Boulder County

Excavation services to set this fire cistern in Boulder County.

Here we had to deal with a frozen and steep access road. This driver was new to the mountain winter conditions around here. We went off the road earlier when he first arrived and we pulled him out with the 2 mini excavators we have onsite.

Winter has been rough this year coming early and remaining cold throughout the December and January thus far. This makes it touch to dig and open holes susceptible to freezing and heaving. Check out the time lapse of us setting this tank. Hit us up online to schedule a free project consultation. Www.HighPerformanceEarthworks.com

Uploaded by High Performance Earthworks on 2019-12-11.

Waterline installation to prevent freezing

https://youtu.be/SC07LRQlw8w

Prevent freezing Waterline installation strategy Here we're installing a waterline at a high elevation in the Colorado Rockies. We're unable to get down super deep without breaking rock. So we're going to do a combination of both rock breaking as well as sleeping this waterline in 4" corrugated sleeve pipe.