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- Okay, we back on the scene.
I know it's been a while since our last video,
so I hope everyone is doing well and staying positive,
and we appreciate your continued support.
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So, I wanna give a shout out to Mike.
And this project is one of my first projects back in 2006,
and the customer across the street has been a neighbor
since probably about 15, 20 years.
And when it was time for him
to start his retaining wall project,
he contacted Mike, Mike gave him my number,
which I had the same number for over 20 years,
and we got started on this project.
Now, if you had the same number for over 20 years,
leave a comment below.
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- Just a quick demo
of the old pressure treated retaining wall.
It's been up about 15, 20 years.
This time around, the customer decided to go
with a concrete retaining wall.
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Here, we're cutting some stakes, sometimes called kickers.
They're used to help support the wall during the pour.
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With this retaining wall, we followed the existing grade,
which means we had to custom cut each rebar for this wall,
using our rebar cutter and bender,
one of the best investments I made.
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- Using duplex nails, we tie our vertical rebars in place.
This also makes for a nice and strong rebar mat,
once the horizontal rebars are in place.
The real time saver for us on all our jobs
is this rebar tying gun.
I call it the Terminator.
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- [Man Off Screen] Like the other 20 20.
- [Man Off screen] Put it
in every single one of them, Dougie.
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Now it's time for us to close up the front.
We pre-positioned our stakes approximately
every four to five feet on center,
depending on how tall the wall is.
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Be sure to stick around to the end of the video.
We have a couple
of other small concrete retaining wall projects we did,
earlier in the year,
just wasn't able to get enough footage
to put a complete video together.
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- Now it's time for some concrete.
This is the fun day.
I got my son out here and helping us out.
Got a lot going on here.
Outside of this retaining wall,
we also got a concrete patio on the side of the house.
we got a stamp concrete patio coming down the front
of the house.
And we also added a couple o' curves up here,
to grade out the customer's yard in the future.
I believe he's gonna put some artificial turf.
I have videos coming from those soon,
probably in the next couple weeks,
so, be sure to subscribe to our channel,
to be the first one to be notified.
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So, ideally, we do a form finish,
which means we'll strip the wood the next day.
Customer wanted us to do a smooth room finish,
I'm sorry, a broom finish on this wall,
so we ended up stripping the same day,
and applying a broom finish.
Good thing it was a short wall, and not too long,
or we would have had to call some more people out.
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Nothing like running to the supply store at the last minute,
grabbing a nice brand new broom to apply our broom finish.
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- And, as promised, here is a look at some other videos,
I'm sorry, some other projects we did earlier
within the year.
These are small retaining walls as well.
Just didn't really get enough footage
to put a complete video together.
Well, that just about wraps it up for this video,
so, I appreciate you guys' time.
Remember to stay positive,
hang around people that are positive.
If you're in the Sacramento Bay area, hit us up.
The link is in the description below.
Everyone else, hope it helped you guys out on your project.
Have a good day.
Remember to stay positive.
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