hey what is going on you guys this is tim o'dell with odell complete concrete and today what i'm going to be doing is taking you guys along on an artificial turf job that me and my buddy completed sam we both worked for my dad and this was a job that we were doing after work after hours and we're gonna be taking about three inches out of the three inches of dirt out of this job and the job was roughly 120 square feet 120 to 140 somewhere around there and uh i didn't have a string line on me or anything like that so i just broke out my dewalt laser level i just set the grade to the concrete height and then i was just going to use a small stake and a measuring tape to check my levels see how uh you know deep i was overall for the whole job which is uh you know i wanted about three inches overall so i was just checking this first little piece that we dug out so i can pretty much just go off of that and just eyeball everything and then go back with the the laser level and check and make sure that it's three inches overall and the great thing was about this shop was um i didn't have to pay any dumpies for this job because i took all the dirt to uh brea this landfill spot where they're just taking free dirt so if you're in orange county and you need to spot them dirt bray is the place to go they take free dirt so that was pretty nice and that was a nice little money saver there was pretty soft as well since uh we've been getting a lot of rain in southern california which is good and bad bad for work good for you know the drought so this was actually a job that me and sam were going to after i was working with my dad we'd hit the morning shift with my dad and then after work we'd go to this job which made us on a tight schedule since a lot of the places that we need to go to close around 5 p.m these two main places being the dump and where we pick up the base material which both close fairly early about three or four like i was saying so my options for getting base material was limited now the base material we picked up isn't the the normal base material i usually get for laying uh artificial turf on top of the basement shell i picked up it was a three-quarter aggregate and a little larger rocks than normal normally i'd get something like a sandy concrete base usually something about 1 8 uh of aggregate inside or less but um i mean this still works and this is actually a very strong base as well for turf the only thing i don't like about this base is the three force aggregate that seems to always be uh protruding in from the base even after you've compacted it you know for a good amount of time so it makes it a little bit harder to lay the artificial turf down flat you see sam he's using the big rake trying to get a nice flat surface for us the flat flatter the surface you can get the base material the better you're gonna be off when you start laying down the turf with no uh air pockets underneath that was the goal for this really so we got this base nice and wet and right over it with the compactor and i compacted this thing for a good like 30 minutes or so non-stop just going over it so it made the surface really nice and hard and then i just checked it with level making sure that everything's grading uh draining right into the turf area and to make sure that it's draining away from the house because we don't want the water going towards the house so i built up the base rock a little bit higher against the house but just enough under the weep street so that if any water you know hits the stucco it gets behind the sucker it would drain out under the weep street now here's the artificial turf that we got we uh we get our artificial turf actually at tiger turf so it's a pretty reasonable place reasonably priced and i think their products really nice and good you know my buddy edgar is the one that recommended me to them and he's the one that has shown me how to do artificial turf if you guys have seen one of our last videos of an artificial turf video he was the one installing the whole job so pretty much we used a 15 by 10 piece for the shop so there's no seams involved one nice flat seamless uh artificial turf space which is ideal because then you don't have to have any seams and it's just nice and seamless so it makes like it makes it look really a lot better you can always hide the seams and everything but you know if you don't have to then i would recommend not to now here i am cutting out this artificial turf around this drain and pretty much to get a trait cut you just follow the seams where the artificial turf blades are sewed into i'll get i believe i got some more close-ups later on so you guys will be able to see that a little better and then right here i'm actually having to cut across the uh artificial turf sodium seams so that makes it a little more difficult to get straight cuts but as long as you have a good eye and you keep checking by putting it back up against whatever you're butting it up against you should be okay and all that side where that blue stuff is on the edge of the other surface we'll be taking that off for sure can't use that stuff now let's say i'm cutting the long piece down i'm just getting a closer view for you guys to show you how it's done if you've never done artificial turf before just follow the seam straight down make sure you're pretty much flush butt up right against the artificial or the concrete because later on at the very end we tuck the very end into the dirt and uh between pretty much right between the base and the concrete so that no weeds will grow up between the artificial turf and concrete nah i'll show that later on in the video now what i have in my hair right now is called a knee kicker use a lot on carpeting and uh where we're gonna be starting off actually is against the wall and we're putting a ton of nails and these are six inch galvanized nails we're putting a bunch of these in to make sure that this turf does not lift up and we have no problems in the future and the secret to making sure that these nails are hidden is when you're uh putting the nails in what you want to do is have another nail and you pretty much just grab the blades back with one of the nails and then drive the hammer in and then at the very end once you've driven the nail in you just come back with the nail and pick any blades that might have got caught by the nail as he's doing right now he's picking any blades that might have been caught when hammering the head down and that's what how we did every single nail making sure not to grab any blades when driving the nails in because then your turf is going to look kind of like a dalmatian and you don't want that so we're just trying to get this turf as flat as possible oh and right there what i did was i snapped a chalk line across this uh turf so that because we're going against the seams right now where the artificial turf blades are sewed into so we wanted to get a straight line so we just snapped a line where we needed to cut so that we can get it nice and tight against that uh house and then i'm over there at the corner with the knee kicker and i'm gonna start uh getting any um loose turf pulled to the edge uh towards the house i'm sam just cleaning up the edge near the concrete if there's any like uh turf that needs to be cut back a little bit so that we can flush it really nice and close up against it and with enough to tuck under it so you can see there i am hidden with the knee kicker and you can see i'm pulling the turf where it needs to be pulled a little bit to make sure that everything gets nice and flat and now me and sam are doing the whole uh artificial turf space going one direction pulling it in one way so that as we keep going we can keep putting nails in keep it locked in place and keep kicking it towards one direction and then i went back and hit all the nails in and say i'm handling all the edges and again guys the base is a very important factor when putting artificial turf in because if you don't have the right base you're just gonna have you're gonna be struggling with those kind of uh those um little bumps and pockets that we had that's why i had to use a knee kicker so much to straighten out this turf so as you can see guys in the bottom of the screen it's starting to rain on us it's starting to uh sprinkle a little bit on us so i was really trying to struggle and get that pet from the infill in as fast as i could before it really started to pour on us which we did get in time before the rain started to hit us and uh got everything spread out evenly with the power sweeper but once you put all the sand fill in even if you put it in a little heavy in some areas you can always spread it out just takes a little bit longer but it's better to get i think i believe you would want um depending on how much traffic flow you're gonna be having about one pound of infill per square foot and then like i was saying earlier in the video guys this is the tucking the edges in so that no weeds can grow up on the corner it ends you just tuck those edges in right between the crevice of the concrete and the base and this is pretty much the final product so if you guys have any questions or some things were unclear of how to explain them just let me know guys and i'll try to work on it in the future but i hope you guys learned something and enjoyed the video thanks for watching and don't forget to like share and subscribe guys we really appreciate it have a good day you