Hey, so today we're here at
the Herriman basement walkout that we're doing and I just want to show
you guys a little bit what's going on here. So we've got the wall marked. We're ready for the saw cutting to happen. And I just wanted to show
a couple of things here, so let's check it out. So we've got the excavation opened up here for some retaining walls
that are coming in here, and then the basement walkout is gonna be at about this level here. So here we have some lines
marked where we're gonna cut it. And this is gonna get cut open here. And then this window is
gonna become the door. So, so yeah, we have Harold here. He's getting ready to do the cutting and has the saws and everything. So, we should be in business here today getting this store open
and getting ready to get that cut open so pretty huge saw blade. The wall saw, it's a pretty huge blade. So anyway, fix some
video and show how this, how this wall gets opened
and how we're protecting the inside of this
existing finished basement. Here's the inside. We've got the floor masked
off with some heavy duty cardboard covering, and then while
he's cutting outside, I'm gonna be inside protecting the, any debris from coming
inside with the vacuum and cleaning up as it goes. So also we'll be cutting the
walls eight inches thick, and we'll be cutting through
7 3/4's with the water. And then during the last
quarter of an inch dry, and I'll suck the dust
or anything that comes as it comes and block it with
the towel and the vacuum. So that should leave us really clean. But anyway, that's the plan here to
get this wall opened up and then get this walkout put in. So just to give you a
little perspective here, this wall steps down two
feet and that wasn't really something where that's normal
or that we were planning on, but we're taking care of it here. And we've got to excavate down to where they put the house at, so that we're on native
soils that are stable for any footings that we're putting in. So here, we're going to
step this out two feet and then put the retaining
wall here that comes toward myself this way and comes
all along this trench here that we've dug, and then it steps down. Here we have a dead man wall. That's gonna go here. Basically that's a four-foot footing. And then a foundation wall that comes up and ties into this retaining wall so that basically any force, cause this is gonna be built up higher and the driveway is
gonna be a way up here, so any forces that are pushing this way, this wall is going to
keep the dead man wall. This one is going to keep
this wall from falling over. That's the engineering strategy there. And then we have those every 10 feet. So we have another one here
and then another one here. And this is, actually, there's only three. There's the walkout walls counts as one and then this is the second
one, the third one's here, and then the fourth one
is actually the other wall where it turns and the
driveway comes up this way. So this is a little bit of a project here, but we're doing well and
we're gonna get it done. So, one other thing here that
we noticed when we started screening, you can see the
layers of soil where the fill is that the builder put in
when they originally built the neighborhood. And then right there, you can
see this is the native soil. So any dirt that's up
here in the fill area, we can't build on that. It's not stable enough. So we've got to get down
into this other soil. And then the reason we came down far here is because for engineering, the engineering had to be
down this far to step it, to step the footings. So here they step up two
feet and that continues at that level all the
way to where the house existing foundation is. Okay, so we got Harold here
and we're putting on the, the brackets for the cutting saw. And anyway, I just want
to show you guys this. You have to get it
anchored in first, mark it, and then level these and put
them five and a half inches away from the line that
we're gonna be cutting. So anyway, we're just getting this set up. We got the, all the
tools and stuff out here, the saws, the 480 power, the
generator, everything going. So it's gonna be going good. (sawing) (sawing) (sawing) Okay, so Harold, he just got this cut and we've got it cut on
all sides and it's loose in the hall. So now we're gonna go
have the satisfying moment of pushing it out. Okay, so here we are,
we're ready to push it over (hitting the ground) and there we go. It's all cut out. Looking good. So here, we're gonna have the door. There we go. And here by design, we cut this lower so that when we put the, the walkout concrete can
just flow right into there and match up at that same level and have that thickness. So it'll be perfect.
