Retaining walls are not always the answer. On this job they weren’t in the budget. We saved the porch, and created a backyard for 1/2 the cost by focusing on grading and other design ideas.
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38 Comments
20.000 just to move dirt dame it and you make it sound like a I got that done for 500 dollars
Audio level discrepancies between edited clips = unusable content. Amateur hour.
Thanks for this. We are Looking at degrading our convoluted yard. And now I see we can think outside the box.
Semper Fi
I have done very similar with Woodglut designs.
You don't know what you are talking about. The same engineer that would have engineered the retaining wall would have also provided input on whether the slope would support the imported fill. In my neck of the woods, your "outside the box" "idea" for eliminating the retaining wall is a recipe to trigger a landslide. And, in subdivisions with typical lot widths of 75-100', don't count on the slide respecting property lines. You don't talk about benching and I don't see any evidence of lifts or compaction equipment.
I love how you ended it with the status quote doesn't work
Great video, I'm in the same scenario with my backyard and this really helps!
Could he have filled dirt over the existing walls (atleast some of it) ? Wonder if it was worth removing them completely
Had nothing to do with what I was looking for but was entertaining at least
I wish you are in mexico. I need this done in my house . And has a slope.
"Brought some dirt" becomes "imported structural fill soil". You guys ain't fooling anyone.
I am a professional landscape installer, and I agree with this video. Options are great.
However, the so called yard will be decreasing in size after every rain. They should of installed more erosion control barriers. Maybe they did without mentioning it. But overall great alternative to a big wall job.
Is that prez Joe Biden in the beginning of the video❓
Too much talk, show us the work and stop editing and cutting too much with the video 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Man this is exactly the problem we have with our yard here in TN. Steep slope down from the back but we don't want to REMOVE dirt to lower the entire yard because there is a sidewalk and road down at the end of the back yard property line. We are wanting to add fill to level the yard UP. Is this what you'd recommend? Just slope down at the end?
Nice work. I am a home owner, But I would like to ask people to think 10 times, who have the same problem of steep slopped yard and wanted to leveled it and, also thinking wanted to get it done just like this vedio. Talk to other pro. I have the same problem and my neighbor had the same problem. they leveled the yard without retaining wall.
Here are the cons of doing without retailing wall after I saw my neighbor's backyard. its just my opinion.
1. You won't get perfect leveled yard and there will would be 5-10% of slopped.
2. Very Dangerous for running kids as the little slope lean them to fall easily.
3. Mowing will be very difficult for owner itself. My neighbor has to get his grass mowed from a company NOW due to further steep slopped created after leveling without retaining wall.
4. You would get less money back as compared to retaining wall when you are going to sell your house.
Think about all these points before you level your steep yard without retaining wall. Money saving doesn't work always. Good luck to your project !!
Thanks for the advice.
This is not how-to.
Awesome video.
Awesome I’m doing the same thing just on a larger scale. Love your work man.
I have the similar situation where the back of my house has a big hill. I would like to remove the rotting retaining wall and grade the hill to end little further.
Nice vision and work! Hard to beat lots of packed raw Earth in regards to future maintenance…a few loads of rock or dirt can now easily be brought in to fix any sinky spots…I'm a fan of no block walls…access, grading and just simple stacked rocks if need be.
1:17 Does anyone know what type of law that is ?
keep god out it
Can you link to the project video
I was hoping to see “how” you did it.
is there a way to do this on a much smaller scale for a property which cannot be accessed by bobcats because there is a narrow path to the property? only needs to be a 7 meter square circular area that is flat on a steep hill
Awesome take on hill grading instead of retaining walls! Mind blown!!🤯 ….❤ it!
I know you must install a "key" (or similar terminology) at the bottom of the slope first to prevent the slope from moving downhill. Other than the one at the bottom, they are supposed to be installed every so many feet as you rise. Do you know what the distance between "keys" is? Great video!
Wow. Great job. Where are you guys located?
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Good Job, Good for your business and Good for the customer with multiple benefits!
Great end result but Many ravines are managed by the local conservation authorities and do not permit the grading of the slopes and removal of trees.
I am trying to research insight on how to reduce a steep slope for a rain ditch that runs across the front of my property; its just too steep to cut with a zero turn riding mower on one end. As a 90% disabled veteran after 25 years of service; it is getting harder to deal with a push weed eater; or a string trimmer; and I hope to figure it out and get it done before I am completely sick, lame and lazy, an cripple an crazy; as a veteran; I am on a fixed budget so I was hoping to find a method to knock it out myself; at 60 yrs old; I can start on it at 6-7:00 am and knock off at 2:00 pm, because it gets to hot; going beyond 2:00 pm in Tennessee usually lands in one of the three heat injuries.
Sir can I get ur valuable guidance on the steeply hilly area on my backyard….if you will accept I will send the picture of my land…thank you
Where are you located? How would you go about an up slope backyard?