Going down the side of the building...
Because we have so much dirt built up in front, the Bobcat can go almost the whole way down! That's huge because we weren't sure how we were going to easily get gravel in these areas. The footer drains need to sit in good gravel as well as be covered up with it, so that requires a lot of gravel. Jim brought bucketfuls of gravel over and I shoveled the gravel into 5 gallon pails.
Then Jim carried the pails over and dumped the gravel.
We got the footer drains connected all the way around the building, hooked up to the drain by the step in the back.
More buckets of gravel on top of the drain around the back.
The side is all finished - we have to leave enough exposed because we have to have another inspection before we can totally backfill.
Then we switched sides. We got 2 more pieces of dimple board on and started filling up around the downspout drainpipe with gravel.
Once we got it up to the right level, Jim was able to continue the pipe down and around the corner.
Again - this pipe will eventually connect to the gutter downspouts but for now, we just brought the pipe up as far as we need to now for backfilling purposes and capped it off.
A close up of the gravel being poured in - I have to stand in the ditch and hold the dimple board down at the bottom so that no gravel gets behind it.
Time for the geo fabric (look how much better this is than the thin, white stuff from Home Depot!
A few shovelfuls of dirt to hold it in place.
Then Jim can use the Bobcat to fill in.
At the end of the day, Jim has the whole side graded and it looks amazing!
Then he did more grading in front of the building - makes it look so finished!
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