[Applause] [Applause] hi this is David Odell with Odell complete concrete this is really the second part of the previous video I uploaded and here's in the preparation of getting new sod and real ain't real great in your yard so it slopes the right direction so we've already hit this three times with some roundup and you can see it's nice and brown which means it's not gonna grow any more so there was a lot of weeds and who knows what kind of grass is mixed in here but it's all dead now so what I'm gonna do is Road to tell it and I'm gonna move the high side which is the furthest away from us I'm gonna move all that dirt up here to the area where the water was accumulating because it wasn't sloped properly to begin with so we're gonna change the whole grade and then once I get that just right then I'm gonna add about two inches of nice topsoil over the whole thing then it's ready for sod so I put some stakes where the sprinklers were when I was rototilling so I wouldn't smashing you know wrote it till over the old heads and you know on this side over here was quite high compared so we wanted to take it all down and move all this dirt to the other end and we bring that ends up lowers this side now here's the topsoil that's gonna be going in it's a nice little blend it has a nice little smell to it and that's how you know it's really good and you can feel the heat coming off of it that's how you know it's good a little little heat rises off of this stuff because it's producing and then I got a nice long rake here which I'm gonna be grading it with get this nice and flat matter of fact we did compact all this area before we put this topsoil on here just so there wouldn't be any settlement once the water hits it and the lawn starts growing which can happen a lot when you're doing a lot of dirt work you can get some irregular settlement if you don't you know get it compacted right well that's about three and a half yards of topsoil brought in and now we're gonna adjust these sprinklers that one broke from the will grow going over it so we had to repair that one once we get this dialed in this dirt will run the sprinklers and will flood all this again and then let it let settle overnight then we'll touch it up and see where it's settled hungry grade and then lay sod a lot of process and lot of steps you need to probably skip them but you know you may run into problems later on if you do so you can see that we've got it nice and saturated here and this from the settlement we've just got the saw dropped off here and what were using because there's a lot of shaded area in this so we went with Marathon one which is from Southland sod farm Oxnard so it's real popular nice saw real dark green grows well um in in shade it needs about 60% daylight to grow I believe it is but out of all the sides the one two and three the one is the hardiest of the bunch so it's good for foot traffic dogs you know the animals it recovers really quickly in other words so here's another thing a true good broken-in trout comes in handy for the trial that I happen to use and have had for quite a few years so it's razor sharp it's really nice for cutting the sod did you know there's plastic running through the sod and can be hard to cut sometimes but with a nice sharp trowel cuts it really easily also a nice this trial I can actually fine-tune the grade as I go back so it's similar to laying tile I'm using my trowel to lay this dirt down real smooth before I drop the sod on it and as you can see there now the way you start on this side at least I do it's not a mandatory but I like to stagger my joints on the side so they're not all in one line so what I do is I use a half of a section of sod to start and then every time you get your alternates so all of your seams don't line up with each other when you get the sod delivered you have to get it on the ground and watered the same day and the weave we took about two hours from delivery to installation and then we get the water on it so this went down real nice also I use that trowel to hit the sod to bang it in tight over every every section I lay down you have to cut a little sought out every time you get to a sprinkler head and make sure it's clear because once you start watering heavily for the first week you can't walk out there you're gonna leave you know your foots gonna sink into the mud because it is pretty wet for the first week so you don't want to have to get back out there to adjust the sprinkler head in other words so we started on the 1/2 far edge and we're stayed pretty straight you see that line there pretty straight considering it's just sod and we get all the way down there and we still got a nice straight line when we hit this curb so that's a good sign but it was consistently tight all the way through so my cut at the end was about four four inches all the way down and I could have pulled that full piece to the edge but the four inch in the middle of it it's gonna grow either way but that's an option well it looks like it maybe it was 6-inch cuz that curb is about four so about a six inch strip there once you get all your sod in you'll want to water three times a day five minutes three times a day for the first week then you can reduce it down I reduce it kind of slowly down I go from the first week I go three times a day and then I reduce it down slowly but surely you know we have to adjust the sprinkler nozzles the ones I'm using are 0 to 360 degrees so that means I can fit any angle any spray range that I want and I don't have to worry about quarters 90s and you know things like that I just in half sprays I just get all 0 to 360 s and fine-tune them we're getting some good coverage we almost got a hundred percent overlap on these spray heads you know eventually that once the Sodom grows together all those little seams where the Kem's together those are all disappear after the first cut and the first cut you have to make sure the lawn is very long longer than you would normally keep it did what you want to do is make sure that the roots are grown into the ground real well because if you cut it early you know it'll tear their roots up from the ground and you can disturb the growth of the lawn anyway this is a week later here and you can see we got the hand rolling on the steps the color of the car it's a lot different now anyway thanks for watching the video have a nice day if you liked it subscribe hit the bell if you want to get the latest and greatest updates as I roll them out you