• 0:05 - 0:37
Hey, this is Jessie and Manny. We're going to make a video and we're going to figure out our work scope here for Manny's house. And we're going to make it beautiful gray west Wildwood drive 1 0 3 west. While we're going to put the finishing touches on everything and make the future buyers happy to have it. They're going to need to have it. They're going to need to have it. They're going to get in a bidding war and they're going to drive up the price against each other and is going to get top dollar and everybody's going to celebrate. So we're going to do recycled asphalt on this driveway here from right here at the top.
• 0:38 - 0:48
We'll have a little bit of a neighbor that kind of comes out into here. I would, I would really like to scrape and scratch down that rock just a little bit to ease out that transition right in there.
• 0:50 - 1:23
Um, let's see Manny. We'll do, uh, well, we'll feather this out here and we'll put a straw blanket across the, the hillside here. Cause it's all bunch of weeds and disturbed ground here, and that's just gonna continue to be an eyesore until this gets addressed. So we're going to regrade this and just feather it all out, brush it out, make it scarified and fluff up the soil a little bit. And then we're going to roll out a straw blanket and we'll put seed down there and then you'll get some native grasses and wildflowers that'll come in right there on this side of the driveway.
• 1:23 - 1:38
I think we're going to pretty much leave it. Um, you know, this is a little bit unsightly right there. I'd say if anything, we can just give that a minor brush out with the excavator, but this doesn't really need much over here on the left-hand side.
• 1:39 - 2:15
This is a thought wire that we put in the ground. This is a, there's a wire that's connected in right here. So we'll cut this down to grade. What a box. Yeah, we can put a box in it or we could run it out to here, but we need to indicate that and mark that in some way or another. So that, that can be found when and if the water line ever freezes, which is never going to, but then here along this downslope edge here, we would want to do the same treatment and basically feather it out, brush it out, scarify the earth and put a straw blanket over over this.
• 2:15 - 2:28
But there is the discussion of, of filling this in and bringing in some additional fields. And I did find, um, access to the caribou Ridgeville so we can get that fill really cost-effective so we could get and bring in, uh, several loads.
• 2:29 - 3:01
I would say we could probably bring in, let's say seven to 10 trucks right in here probably seven would do us fine. Maybe five, maybe five would be plenty, but when you have a hillside like this, this dirt disappears real fast. And so, um, but we will want to keep it off of the base of these trees. So ideally we'll put some boulders right along here, right along the base, along these trees, and then we'll fill into the boulders and we could come right up, right up high with the boulders. Doesn't need to look great because nobody can see it.
• 3:01 - 3:42
And it's hidden by the trees as well. So we can just put some big boulders in here, rough and dirty and be done with it. We can keep the cost down for Manny. Manny wants to get the premium finish for the, for the, uh, budget rate. So that's what we're really going for here. Um, do it as, as good as we can as cost-effectively as we can. And right here, we have some septic tank lids and we have three septic tank lids, one, two, and then three is the third one is up high and it's buried. So we're going to need to pull back, um, is it buried Manny?
• 3:42 - 3:43
Is there another lid in here?
• 3:45 - 4:20
Okay. I don't see it, but I know we put this, this one on here. Well, there's one here and then there's one here. So it's just the question is if there's two or three lids on this thing, there's definitely three. Okay. Then there's probably one in one more in here. So we'll go ahead and dig this back and expose this third lid. And then we're going to put in some boulders to hold the dirt back and keep the dirt off of this. Um, off of these tanks, we can do, um, boulders or we'll do the concrete blocks.
• 4:20 - 4:43
I'll think about selling many of these concrete blocks that we have at the shop. And we can do a nice wall here so we can fill in with our fill and bring this in and give his, his, uh, the users, the end users of this house, a nice, generous swing radius to, to swing in the vehicle, into the garage there.
• 4:44 - 5:17
And so we also have some stumps here. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Um, yeah, I got that one. There's one over there. That's six and seven. And then there might be one more on the other side of the house, but what we'll do is we'll end up going ahead and we'll dig a nice big open hole right in here. And we'll bury these stumps. We'll cut off what we can cut off of the wood that's salvageable wood that we can, that can be burned.
• 5:17 - 5:42
And then we'll just bury the root balls right in the ground over here. If we can get our stump burner set up at the shop, but maybe we'll take some back to the shop, have a handful of them. Also, these trees have gotten a bit mangled, so you can see kind of up and down these trees. I'd like to get these cleaned up a little bit, that one's not too bad, but this one definitely is unsightly.
• 5:42 - 6:16
We should limb this one up to about right there, just give this these limbs clean cuts. And then we need to dig out the base and put some boulders along the tree and leave that open at the base, get it back down to native grade. And the same goes for over here. We need to get it back down to native grade and then protect the base of that tree with some boulders. And then we can come back with our earth. Same here. We need to trim these back and clean up these trees where they've been damaged.
• 6:17 - 6:35
Um, this is really something really, we need to do a better job of not, not damaging trees. When we get in here and start operating. If we need to make more room for ourselves, we need to take the tree out altogether or take the chainsaw and limb these trees up to make, give ourselves more room.
• 6:36 - 7:14
And then this whole hillside needs to get finished out. Basically it needs to be groomed. Uh, all these rocks needed to be raked up and tucked in from all the way down there. Um, the basis of the trees need to be exposed or the trees need to be removed. So it's a tough call on that, which is more work and I like trees. And so we should try to preserve the trees if we can. I'd also recommend to Manny that we bring in some top soil and put some top soil over his leach field and go ahead and do our own treatment of straw and seed native wildflower mix.
• 7:14 - 7:45
Ideally, this all needs to be brought up in, graded out all through here. The grade, by the time he does his hardscape needs to be basically concealing and covering the gap at the bottom of this rock work here. So that there's something for that rock and that rock, ideally rest on some pea, gravel or squeegee, and then flagstone in here, or possibly even a slab that comes right to the base of these stone pillars.
• 7:45 - 7:51
This will all get graded out smooth and then gravel all the way around and all through here.
• 7:53 - 8:27
Gravel should be brought in and covered all through here with gravel. It needs to be some edging along here. We need to have some fill that comes in here and fleshes this out and brings up this whole grade all through here so that this doesn't feel like we're gonna fall off the mountain side here. And so we're going to have a pad here as well, and we'll have for a heat pump. That's going to go there. And then, um, a stair is going to come down here and land down here. So we're liable to have some kind of landing down here, as well as some flat grading. And then this will get trimmed out and graded out flat and level all along the house, all through here.
• 8:27 - 8:31
This is all just some fine grading through here. Just kind of go through it, get the rocks out.
• 8:31 - 9:02
And then we'll hit this with some, I mean, it'd be nice to do some road base in here with some, some gravel right up against the house and just have a nice trim, trim edge of gravel that goes up to the house, comes out, let's say six feet out from the house and a nice little slope of about three sloping away from the house. And then we'd fabric and gravel up against the house. Four inches deep, all the way around.
• 9:03 - 9:40
We'll need to get a dimension, a total perimeter amount so we can calculate how much gravel we'll actually need, but it'll be several loads. That's for sure. We could probably get away with three inches of gravel all the way around this needs to be graded out and sloping away from the house here. We need to pick up this construction debris. It looks like this siding is falling down, which is not a good sign since it's brand new and it just went up meant he needs to address and fix that.
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• 9:41 - 10:12
But this again, I mean, this is a lot of rock in here who would sure be nice to get this kind of finished out with some, some road base. We should pull all this away from the forest and get this groomed out and shuttled over there. This all needs to be backed dragged so that this rock is all brought out of it back dragged and raked. And he did not have any of this rock on top of the surface like that, this over here. I mean, there's some construction debris.
• 10:12 - 10:37
That's not going to be our concern. The earth looks fine. We'll take out that little hump right there coming around. And then this backside here, this all needs to be regraded for drainage. So this all needs to be worked. You're gonna need to bring in significant amount of fill into here. And we can probably try to cut this back a little bit.
• 10:38 - 11:24
We'll go ahead and see if we can't just bring that cut all the way into here. And we'll use this material that we rip out of here and, and fill it in over here. We've got some major drainage problems in here. Let's see major a little spot right there. This all needs to be brought up. We need to use a laser and dial-in this, this grade here so that everything comes away from the house 10 feet and then swales out around that way and around that way. And we'll have the Ridge, probably the natural high point looks like it's off of that corner really, but, um, we'll probably do the high point right in here and we're going to drain everything, not lane drain everything.
• 11:24 - 11:33
That way that'll work fine. I'd like to rip this out as much as we can just go ahead and rip out as much of this rock as we can here.
• 11:33 - 12:04
And just open this up a little bit more and just kinda continue that rip line and take it down. Just take anything that we can get out of the mountainside here all the way back into there and drop it down. And we'll use the fill that we pull out of there to, to raise the great all up into here. Manny would love our help too, for just, um, connecting an electrical hookup for this the septic tank. So we're going to plan a pedestal out here and put the control box out here and everything.
• 12:04 - 12:23
This is a pump pressurized dosing system, and we'll run our pressure dosing electrical control panel from there into clear over here, we'll run some conduit over here, underground, and then it's going to go over here somewhere. Let's talk with Scott.
• 12:24 - 12:39
So I felt the mechanical rooms on that opposite wall. So the pump, like I said, I know it's kind of either as stupid as this sounds. It makes, I don't know if it would fit here, but here's what else going to go through.
• 12:41 - 13:04
Okay. I didn't see one, uh, there may be another stump over there and that other corner, man, he says, there's that one right there. I think I counted that one already, but we're going to try to go ahead and dig out as much of this hillside as we can so that the cars getting back into their turnaround and then go up on out the driveway. So that'll generate some dirt for us as well that we can use and we'll bring up and work the grade all through here. Make sure that this is all going to drain properly.