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Old 03-24-2005, 06:07 PM
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If it has to be done this second, I would take a mini-X or lots of emanual labor and dig down under where the wal and walls are going to go, at least in the area of the basement overdig.

Then get your Wacker or a pad foot roller and rebuild the base in 8" lifts compacting the whole way up. If you don't want to
Wack it, remove the dirt and use 1" minus gravel and pack the crap out of that.

Inevitably, that overdig fill zone is going to drop. No matter what you do on top, no matter if you put 24" of gravel on top, if what is below settles, the top will follow right on down.
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