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Installing a Retaining Wall

Bob talks with Mike Nasti of All Island Supply as the crew installs the Allen block retaining wall for the backyard terrace.

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Installing a Retaining Wall

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" The challenging part of a landscape installation is what they call the hardscape which involves retaining walls and that's what we're building right here let's get together with Mike nasty who is. From -- island supplied on on Long Island New York. Hi how are you got a full crew here at this yeah -- now what we're dealing with here rather than pouring a traditional retaining wall system with concrete -- we're using this product called Alan blot correct right it's an interlocking concrete retaining wall system half. And so it's technically you can do a job like this in a day if you got a four man crew everything has arrived and there's no. Concrete pouring it all right you're just running this this camping machine here right on what is essentially the footings for the retaining wall exactly twenty recycled concrete product. That we use to the base to stabilize the ground so it's nothing more than crusher run from old sidewalks. Price. And then you don't have to worry about winter freezing and thawing and right because the -- block system has a flexible system yeah he who has a ground heaves and thought isn't it and the freeze thaw cycles. The block who'll give and come back into its normal position yet unlike a concrete retaining wall system which will cracked from the force of the from heaving. And you got a crack have you got -- about the plants are assured doing here you know we're creating. Where retaining wall for what is essentially. A secondary level of terror here -- if this is this is the back give -- the deck and the house is back here. And what we're doing is putting in a square. Retaining wall the walls to backfill and create a secondary level before they get down to the actual grain that's correct OK and so there's planting involved here to -- There's as a steps come down in this area over here -- is going to be to planting areas. One which is going to follow in an L shape over into this direction right and the same in an L shape over here. He says -- to be a practical use retaining wall system that's really not for the for any. Senators that thing on deck right well let's just watch them put it all together. Now what kind of material is -- pouring into the blocked. Okay this is they had crushed stone product that reason that happens you want to local stone of this depending on your location that could be a number of different. Products just to have drainage. And it also helps in -- blocking of the block that great. So we've been lucky enough to get Anthony Michael landscaping from north port Long Island to come out and install all the out block force. And it's looking pretty good. OK that sure makes quick work out of it now there's no steel reinforcing in any of these pieces right now that's correct so you just to cut them freely. That's pretty impressive software."

" It goes there. This fits right in but now I was just noticing is we leave this in this is actually like a dovetail joint here and correct that's -- that's right here that's correct and that's one of the key to keeping his corner to get together back we have a corner over here that bacteria that together. It's nice. I policy's. Renewal until just like you who -- working so in the casting it comes out nice and sharp like that right. It's -- is slide them into place -- that's just that's not going to move anyway right that's great now. This gets back filled up to this height which is basically a secondary terrorists that we created in the transition from the wooden deck. Too the big terraced back there that track and we were gonna have. A big planter in the middle of the lovely outfit platters but I've changed my mind about the middle we just want to have the side planning but then here is where we need to have. Three steps right correct you it's going to be probably force that in this location OK."

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