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she's working ing to the cloud excellent well done well thank you gentlemen good luck everybody I'm gonna close my window here and step away yeah me too hello everyone future certified landscape inspectors just like give you guys a little background on myself I have a master's degree in landscape architecture I am an is a certified arborist landscape inspector sort of landscape certified inspector with LAF vice-president like Kevin said I work at dixie landscape currently as a project manager I work there first for a year and a half as an estimator looking at plans day in day out doing takeoffs doing estimates and now I'm a project manager out on the field so I'm gonna show you guys I'm gonna share my screen and show you guys a full set of plans on a project I'm currently working at and I'm gonna kind of show you guys through walk you through the progress of construction in the order that you would look at a set of plans I have two dogs so if they bark or you hear any noise I apologize that the chat room the chat is open so as I'm sharing my screen if anyone has any questions feel free to put it in the chat if not I'll stop at certain points and ask you guys if you have any questions you Artie so I'm sharing my screen I hope everyone can see it and now this is a job in Pompano Beach this is a TD sheet so if you don't know what a CV sheet is I'll zoom in here it stands for a tree disposition plan you always find on the right-hand side or on the bottom depending on the architect what you're looking at so this is a tree disposition plan the date project number td1 it should show you the job name the address the location the set of plans it should show you the set of plans you're looking at and there should always be a column for revisions sealed of your landscape inspector a plan reviewer you should want to make sure that it's sealed by the landscape architect if it's not sealed it's like an immediate rejection anyway so looking at a tree disposition plan you should have a key that's what every disposition plan has there's there's three things that all landscape plans have and these are the most important there's a key there's a scale and a North arrow three every page should have it if they don't you'll be completely lost as to where you are how far things are and where and and what you're looking at so for instance the street disposition plan there's three things you can do with trees they can remain they can be relocated or they can be removed your scale factor on this plant is a one to thirty inch scale now on a on a PDF you know it looks you can't really tell if that's right but when you print this out to the size you could always get a scale bar and if it's one inch equals thirty you go to the thirty scale and that measurement right here should actually equal an inch and then north is up so when you're on the job site you know North is up architects always put notes all invasive plants found on site are to be removed invasive Florida Holloway and southwest corner of the property are to be removed and then here you start your um your inventory of trees each tree is numbered each tree falls under the index of what's going to happen so just a recap looks like nothing around the dot is to remain double circles to be relocated Nexxus to be removed so as you can see all these trees 85 86 7 33 34 these are all to be removed and that way you can see here's a nice big cluster of trees relocate relocate relocate remove and this each number will tell you what the tree is and what is going to happen to it at the end of your tree disposition plan so there should be multiple pages of it the last page should show you the list of trees so here's a pretty big size project pretty big list 102 bottlebrush or sorry just another one 451 Sabal Palmetto so here you can you can essentially go down the list see what is going to happen to it see the comment by the arborist the species rating the appraised value all this is necessary for when you're doing plan review here you can see some details that the architect shows to put root pruning details here they're telling you they want the depth and the width of the trench may vary all birds must be trimmed root prune it up to the dripline varies with tree size here you have a tree protection detail so every city has their own details that they want their protection this one wants safety barrier fence fluorescent orange they want it to buy for pressure-treated here you can see they want 2 feet buried under the ground with 4 foot minimum above-ground on 4 foot centers so here they're telling you exactly how they want their tree protection to be and this is directly pulled from the city of Pompano moving on when you're doing a plan review if you end up doing this in a city you can almost always skip to the last page where they they have to provide you with a chart so here they're charts very simple total trees to 564 total throughs to be relocated 96 told to be removed 117 existing in proposed trees exceed the number of required trees for the site no mitigation is required so there they're telling you that they've gone above and beyond the requirements of the site for what's to remain and they're telling you we don't have to mitigate for anything does anyone have any questions on a disposition plan so far I lost the chat room can you hear me yep no I have no questions I did know Big Ear Oh anyone have any questions no moving on just typical tree disposition plan what your guys will look for some disposition plants will show you the new location of all the trees to be relocated some of them don't this one for example probably because there's so many things being relocated they don't show you the exact locations if they don't show it on the disposition plan that's because they're gonna eventually show it to you on the landscape plan so from here we will go to the landscape lien so here you have landscape plan cover page as we said before here's the seal you can see the landscape plan is on revision to do two comments scale bar North arrow a11 released a plan here it's just telling you this plan is divided into three sheets lp1 op2 lv3 this is where the cut lines are going to be so this is just your essential cover page now I'm gonna skip to the last page real quick so here's a last page and typically you'll find the plant list on the last page of the landscape plan so here you can see their plant list right it'll always be broken out into trees then palm trees shrubs usually you'll have ground covers and then sod here you can see the code that don't be represented on in the plan the quantity of them botanical name common name how they want the tree so do they want the tree in a container do they want it field grown here it can range from field grown old in burlap it can be 65 gallon 200 gallon 25 gallon 35 gallon this is where they're gonna specify how they want the trees to be grown here you can also see qvr 9 shows you 9 oak trees that are going to be relocated so following up from the tree disposition plant if the oak size qvr on it you know that it's relocated from the troop this position plan same thing with the mahogany's spr is 80 so it's 80 Sabal palms that are gonna be relocated and then here you have your shrugs container so right here in container same thing you have 3 gallon 7 gallon 1 gallon 15 gallon the architect here is chosen to not put any gallon size but they have Specht out a hind size so you'll look at Cocoplum crucible aniseh kako they want a 24 inch height by 24 inch spread and they want implanted 24 inches off center so when you look at and will look at the landscape details after but they're gonna want these spaced every 2 feet on center Clues you have 30 inch 24 inch so as an estimator or a project manager or anyone when you see a 30 inch clue SIA you're you know that's not gonna happen as a 3 gallon you maybe even that as a 7 gallon so this is where you from your experience or from doing a quick search I like to use plan name you can search what nurseries are growing and what their stock is at and if you're gonna have to bid it as a 15 gallon or a 10 gallon to get that 30 inch height because most cities especially Papa no sunrise plantation they'll take out a tape measure and they'll measure your shrubs and if your shrubs don't have that 30 inch height or that 24 inch spread you're gonna have to take back all the shrubs you just delivered so this goes for the entire plant list size of trees we'll go over some quick common so here we go size of tree we have a 14-foot height by 5 foot spread 5 foot CTC T stands for clear trunk so they want 5 feet of trunk before the first branch comes out single leader here's another 14 to 16 foot height 5 foot spread two and a half inch caliper two and a half inch STD refers to standard so you could have a multi you could have a standard this is just a zoom out a little bit it's a silver button would so you could grow silver button wood as a bush you could grow it as a tree by putting STD they'd they're specifying they want to grow in as a tree a standard tree same thing with the Alex we've seen that the moon Holly here we have a crape myrtle multi-trunk multi-stemmed 10 to 12 foot overall multi stone what does multi-step mean that landscape architecture architect here hasn't put in how many stems they want so could a to stem crape myrtle pass in this instance it sure can because it's multi-stemmed some architects will specify they 1 3 to 5 5 to 7 here they've just put multi stem live oak 16-foot overall 8-foot clear trunk single leader so here you go this is their plant list their specifications down here this is the information that the Landscape Architect provides to the city in order to speed up and and expedite their plan review so when they submit plans to a plan reviewer you want to lay out all the information that that plan reviewer needs so he just has to go down the list and say okay check check check check they met all our codes and and everything's good to go so here you can see landscape calculations here they tell you the zoning so this is important what zoning is a single-family multifamily industrial commercial each zoning in your city will have a separate code with separate requirements and separate trees and you'd need to provide so here letting you know the growth site area so the site's 24 acres the previous site was 16 it's increased by 7 open space pervious area so this is they need to provide you a minimum of 20% of the growth site so they're letting you know the minimum is two hundred and ten thousand square feet they need to provide they've provided you with 398,000 so as a plan reviewer you know you're saying all right you're you're going down the list checking things off total impervious area here they're letting you know the square footage vehicular use area minimum fifteen percent has to be very healer use here they're telling you you know you're requiring eighty thousand or providing you with ninety seven this is a more important part minimum development site landscaping so here's a table that is provided by the city so as a landscape architect if I'm working in sunrise I'm gonna go look at their city requirements and see what they want here's my site size 1 million square foot site divided by 3,000 I need to provide you with three hundred and fifty trees how much are they giving you three hundred and fifty trees there's a hundred and seventy two existing 147 proposed nine relocates and twenty two palms which count as three palms equals one tree so here again they're running down the list of telling you this is what you're requiring this is what we're providing and this is you know approve our plan basically here a common thing you'll see is when our provision happens typically revisions will happen when the one plans get rejected from a city so here you can see it looks like maybe they had a change to their shrubs because its revision one so here's a million square feet divided by three thousand for each tree they need to have five shrubs they need to have a thousand seven hundred fifty one shrubs and they're providing you with three thousand thirty seven more things canopy trees for every 40 foot of linear feet in the perimeter they need 50 trees they're providing you with 50 they need on the east side you need 14 they're providing you 14 the west side you need 11 they're providing you 11 so here they run down the list again the more you break it out and the more the architect makes it easier for a plan reviewer to see it and know that they're meeting all the requirements the faster this plan will get reviewed and the easier it'll be going forward so here you can go down we're not going to go down the whole thing but just for example building base required shrubs planted within 3 feet of the base of the building required she'll she'll maintain a max average off-center spacing of six foot third letting you know where you know we did it at three total trees required seven nine six sixteen we're providing 750 for so here they're letting you know we're meeting all your requirements please pass our our plan here's some more notes all dead are declining plant material from previous phases shall be replaced these are notes that are always good to to have you always have to read them for instance this job is phased out so all landscaping shall be installed as part of phase one with the exception of the landscape island so they're letting you know we're trying to face this project out so here is the you know one page of the plan I'll go here's some more details so each city again has their own details here is urban forestry city of Pompano Beach for single trees less than four inches of caliper this is how they want and staked out they want the root ball shall be placed at the bottom three inches below grade untied wooden stakes clean backfill here they're letting you know exactly how they want everything planted single tree trunk greater than four-inch caliper the root ball shall be placed at the bottom undisturbed subgrade so here you go detail by detail how do they want these Tree State how do they want them planted what do they want with their relocations around um let's see what is this plant pinched material around all grown monument equipment typical for all FPL transformer boxes or pads telephone and cable boxes sanitary lift station irrigation pumps so here they're letting you know the screening around all the utilities two-foot offset off the utility planted around three-inch approved recycled mulch they're letting you know what kind of mulch they want three-inch mulch is specified watered in clean backfill six inches around all the shrubs here's a palm here's shrubs facing ground cover spacing ask for plan schedule that's what Oh C stands for off center what's the distance between the center of this shrub and the center of this room spread three inches of mulch but here you they let you know they want to alternate spaced here's a run a fire hydrant so if you guys have a question that says you know how far off a fire hydrant do shrubs need to be placed go to the detail page look at exactly find the detail for the hydrant right here it's letting you know six seven foot six inches from all working sides and three foot six inches from rear sod only in these areas if and and this has happening to me multiple times the plan doesn't have a detail like this we go out there and play in shrubs all around a 500 and the Fire Department shows up and makes you rip it all out because you know that they have rules too here's a true protection detail here's some more buffer details continuous hedge installed and maintained that five foot high so they can you can have four or five as many different pages of details we're not gonna go over all of them just know that if you do need to find a detail they're usually at the back of the landscape planning so just going now we'll look at a landscape plan let's look at a good part so here you go here is a nice piece around this retention that's going to be completely planted so here we have six si es 13 SPR 3 si es 3 SP SMR 1 SM one here SP r so let's look at SP r SP r is 80 Sabal Palmetto cabbage Palmetto relocated so they're letting you know right here we want 13 relocated Sables and they've let you know the numbers sorry they've let you know the numbers of the Sabal palms from the tree disposition plan that they want planted there so if you refer back to the tree disposition plan you have to go find palms 618 619 620 620 1 622 all the way to 32 and realize that you have to plant them here same with SM or what's SM or you go to your plane list s alarms Virginia mahogany mahogany relocated here they want number 88 mahogany relocated to this spot and and so on and so forth landscape plans different from architect to architect so this one right here let's see they have trees and they have shrubs all in one plan so right here we have Cir 192 you find the arrow looks like it's pointing at that hedge line what the Cir mean go back to your plant list Cir crystal venomous a conical red tip it's Coco plum so you know from here going all the way down you have a hundred and ninety two Coco plum landscape plants are not always easiest to to plant or to read there's a lot of information on them you always want to refer back to your scale bar and your north air arrow when you're planting these trees the spacing of these trees is intentional so when you're on site you get you take out your scale bar you see it's 1 2 30 you put the zero right here you measured it here looks like it's 10 feet so now you know every tree and you measure each tree is planted 10 foot off center landscape plans also I'll show you let's see if I can find one they'll show you utilities they'll show you overhead lines they'll show you easements they'll show you everything that you shouldn't be planting in fine right here so here you go this strip right here in the middle of this project existing retention area why is it a retention area railway ingress easement this whole length so here you know nothing can be planted in this easement you take out your scale bar you measure it looks like it's 60 feet you have a 60 foot easement running you want to look at overhead line here you go o / W overhead wire looks like there's a here this is a sign for a post and you'll see that here you have overhead wires running across this entire strip so as a landscape plan examiner if you have overhead wires well you know what's your initial instinct well what are they planting underneath my overhead wires because FPL they have a guideline as to what can be planted LM and CES so we go down here we like CES silver Buttonwood LM crape myrtle multi-trunk you can pull up fpou s a guide for planting under power lines I'm pretty sure those are both category three criminals category three tree silver but and one might be category two so they're all within the guidelines that can be planted underneath overhead wires and that will if you don't catch that I'm sure someone will as a plans examiner but as a installer out on the field you definitely don't want to be planting oak trees underneath power lines I'd hope that uh we've passed that point in development that we stopped planting oak trees underneath ah being still be surprised let me just go down the list yep so this is a landscape plan more or less simple here you can see existing tree legend large shade tree to remain tree to remain palm to remain so it looks like most of this parking lot is left untouched landscape areas and each parking lot are all existing existing perimeter buffer so they're letting you know nothing here is getting moved there's some new stuff coming in here new trees along this whole side SS this stands for another utility not sure off the top of my head but I'm sure it's something important sanitary sewer probably so that is a landscape plan does anyone have any questions yeah I do go ahead okay I'll do I was looking at the plants because the clues are native and they call them native yep they call them native honey roses yeah so as a plans examiner that would be your job to to let them know there's a native requirement that they have to provide you and I'm sure you could find it on the right here on their chart I'm sure if you look here there's a requirement for native plants so yeah I mean that's a good catch as a plant examiner you'll notice that and you can correct them and make them do a revision for it if it's really you know that important so here you can see the note 501 native trees provided 50 percent of palms shall be native 50 percent of trees no more than 50 percent required to be palms so it doesn't look like they have a requirement for the shrubs to be native the clue sees four five yeah 5 foot overall occlusion so that's a huge they still have it as a shrub so I'm sure yeah they just want enough huge hedge yeah five foot overall occlusive planted 24 inch off center so that's gonna be really tight a really tight screen real tight man a good catch thank you anyway yeah go ahead what's the general guideline for the relocated trees do they say like six weeks root prune in advance or is that specified by the architect that is cities will have their own requirements and architects will also specify it let's see if we can find one on this document so yeah here you go room pruning must be done a minimum of eight weeks prior to relocation okay work must be supervised by an is a certified arborist watering must provide sufficient water to maintain a moist condition in the roots typically you'd find that in a detail I've always done six to eight weeks you know depending on the tree I'm sure you know depending on your city again if there's stricter or if they're a little bit more lenient but in in a strict City especially Pompano they're gonna have a document it's somewhere on the planet because if it's on this plan they expect the contractor to follow these rules and if they don't you know this is like plain as day well you know your tree died because you returned it and waited three weeks even though you didn't follow the detail on the plans is is the root pruning first done with like a small backhoe and then the cuts are aimed up or did they do it by hand if there was that that's means and methods I guess with the contractor that is means and methods in this me see I saw usually they'll refer to the ANC a 300 or 3,000 book for best practices the way that I personally do it with with my company is we'll take if it if they're large trees we take a mini excavator out and we'll trench around the drip line and then we'll go back in about you know of foot to six inches so we can find where the root was damaged with the mini excavator and then make clean cuts there okay thank you that's how we do it see all torn roots must be trimmed with clean sharp instruments so yeah essentially you just you you trench all around it and then you go back into the part that wasn't damaged and then you just make a clean cut to it I have a question for you I don't know if you do this with your company prior to actually beginning to remove the trees for relocation do you actually label them so that if it's labeled okay palm-tree 684 supposed to be moved from the Northwest to the southeast corner you actually know what you're doing or is it just kind of just make it look good so I think I've had the look that I'll show up to a job site for a new job that we just got contracted for and when I get there every single tree is tagged with the little aluminum label on it that has a number engraved on it and that that makes my job a hundred times easier I just finished a job what and just we did it and back in November we relocated like 60 trees from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale to around like 15 different parks all around Fort Lauderdale and it was one of the most complicated things we did because the the company basically reached out to the parks supervisor for Fort Lauderdale and said like hey we have all these trees we're getting rid of does anyone want anything and everyone was like sure I'll take palm tree 2:41 one 1769 and four and so that was like every day getting there finding those numbers loading them on on one truck taking them to that part and that was just a jumbled back-and-forth I've also had the issue where I get to like this job for instance my first time out there was on Monday and there's not a single thing labeled I had to go out there look for or and I'll show you these yeah I had to look for everything this building right here is actually like an abandoned warehouse there were maybe like three homeless people living in here and mahogany's all this maja these four mahogany's that we had to root prune there's like um when you call it a Florida Holly maybe like 20 foot thick along this whole section here and we literally had to like cut down Holly with a machete just to find these mahogany's so route through them so that that is the harder part and to answer your question I think for this job the way that I I'm gonna do it is the trees I'm definitely gonna label them and make sure that each tree goes to its a specific spot like the mahogany's as far as the Sables go I probably I'm just gonna pull them pull them all out and then just go plant them because it's 80 of them and I really don't think anyone's gonna mind if one Sables there and one Sables not there the trees yeah the trees we'll try to keep them in their intended spots just because they're their specific oak tree agent does that answer your question yeah so it seems like you just have to have a good knowledge of the jurisdiction having authority that you're working under correct great as well as a species the easiest thing to do would be to request a pre-construction meeting with the city he requests a freak freak on meeting or even call it like a job check inspection and and just ask the inspector hey there's a tea Sabal palms here like you know do you really mind which Sables go where and I'm pretty sure I don't know anyone that'll say like no make sure each one goes exactly where it needs to go because even even in this group of Sables here it doesn't really say which number goes where you know it's letting you know deep we want these numbers Sables here but it's not telling you which Sable is which one yeah I understand where you're coming from yeah so again and my thing is always developing a relationship with your inspector or if you're an inspector developing a relationship with the contractor where you have us like a what your expectations are and you let them know and there's always some leeway because nothing can be done perfectly but pretty much yeah yeah like these two mahogany's that are relocates will make sure these go here but Sabal palms yeah we'll probably and I'm just moving them wherever any other questions no last thing we're gonna review which might or might not affect you guys but I know it's gonna be on the test and I want to go over it with you guys you guys are going to have to look at irrigation planes I don't know if anyone's worked with irrigation plans before if you've never seen an irrigation plan and you look at one you're gonna you're gonna be like what the heck am I looking at if you've seen them they're a lot easier to look at we'll start on page one same thing scale bar North arrow drawing number here they have a simple chart letting you know the sleeping schedule so if the pipe size is a three-quarter inch pipe requires a two inch sleeve they'll give you separate sleeve labels so if they have a sleeve that says 12 inch 6 inch 2 inch they mean to one 12 inch one 6 inch and 1/2 inch let's look at go to the back first ensure you have a question on that if you don't want know what I actually do quite a bit of irrigation but by sleeve you mean just under concrete yeah some kind of concrete hardscaping correct yes leaving sleeving is usually just under sidewalks on their concrete on their hard scape yeah okay you the rule of thumb is usually if it's double the size of whatever pipe you gotta put in so eight sixteen six twelve four eight and that's for anyone that doesn't know an irrigation anything about irrigation when the road is being made and you know you have to cross a pipe underneath your Road what you'll typically do is if you have a four inch pipe that goes if your mainline is four inches you want to dig through there Lime Rock underneath there Lime Rock put in an 8 inch pipe so they could put their Lime Rock over it compress it build their Road over it and then you can come back and squeeze in or you know put in your four inch pipe in that 8 inch so it's like a protective pipe that you're putting just to hold the place of that mainline and protect it from anything breaking it I have another question on that Christopher going this probably has anything to do with actual your test material but it's just real life practical examples since your company mainly does landscaping I'm assuming irrigation all right do you guys make sure you have somebody on site when they're doing let's say Road prep and paving just to make sure it's in there or do you try to make sure that's that contractors responsibility no we we always think as as Dixie landscape goes we always include sleeving in our contracts it's it's probably the most the part that demands the most communication in any part of the project because you're usually not there every day because there's nothing ready for a landscaper to do but it's as soon as I get a contract for a job I try to be out there that same week just to introduce myself if it's someone I haven't worked with or C who is running the job if I work with them before and they an exchange contact information and they'll know you know oh we're gonna be working on the East parking lot the 18th so you have to know 18th all right we have to check for sleeving and there's there's certain things that you can request or see if they're in your scope so here's just an example if this parking lot was brand new and they were building it and I knew I had a sleeve that had to go across this roadway you know I'd say let me know when you're doing the parking lot and stake out the island for me so that stake out this island maybe a corner here a corner here here and here and then my guys would come before they put their lime rock down and throw the sleeve wherever it marks it on the plane so that part is just all communication between the contractor and me and a general contractor so here's a 2-inch sleeve I believe this is all existing roadway I don't know if they're gonna redo this but if they don't we run into that issue a lot where especially on like redo jobs where irrigation goes where it doesn't sometimes you'll have to cut the asphalt and and trench it out put your sleeve in and then they have to patch it up that's just the way it goes sometimes or you can jack and bore it underneath the roadway but it's really expensive so here is an irrigation schedule and it might look like jibbers to some people here's here's what they will spec out the company that they want the manufacturer the model the description they want Rainbird 1800 series Sam MP our heads they want a turf spray 6-inch pop-up sprinkler so they're letting you know it's buried underground and it'll pop up six inches when it comes out with coal molded wiper seal these are just all different things and then here you have the nozzles um some people don't specify nozzles some people make you figure it out for yourself but if it has a 12-foot queue it's a corner that shoots out 12 inches you have a tee you have a half that chute I mean that shoots out 12 feet I'm sorry 12 feet you have a tee cue and a fool we're just shooting 12 you have 15 eight more 15 4 6 8 so this is just letting you know here you have strips so strips are when you have maybe like a 2 foot wide area of grass you put an end strip that just shoots out a little thing doesn't letting you know what nozzles they want on which heads here you have bubblers so here you have Rain Bird flood bubblers here you have Rain Bird 5000 these look like rotors and as a contractor one thing I hate the most is you have to do some middle documents so when you get a contract general contractor will always ask you for some little information so you have to go on rainbirds website look up the 5006 PLP CFC la model download the submittal documents that they request and then submit it for each single thing they're letting you know here the radius of these rotors and how many gallons per minute they shoot out so this is end the psi which is pounds per square inch of water so here they're letting you know a lot of information which usually they don't need to they're letting you know exactly how many heads there are of each each kind you rarely see that they're letting you know how many pounds per square inch each head requires here here they're showing you valves so they want the Rainbird peb valves one inch one and a half inch two inch plastic industrial vows there's 30 of them they're letting you know exactly which controller they want they want a 44 station capable controller they want the ESP eight three modules so each module adds four stations to it they want a rain sensor here you have a pump so irrigation craft centrifugal pump five horsepower pay attention to this because when you're bidding a job when you're looking at plans as a plant examiner or a landscape inspector you might not worry about the pump size but you really never know here they've even gone to the length of letting you know how many feet of mainline they have how many feet of lateral lines they have how many feet of sleeving they have as an as an estimator this is like your birthday because you just used their numbers because every contractor who's bidding this job is bidding it off of these numbers they want to know apples to apples what are they what are they providing you with here you have this is important this is the valve markers the valve call-outs here they're letting you know the valve number the valve size and the valve flow so this is letting you know this is zone 1 the ink the valve size which here we know there's one inch one and a half and two inches and the valve flow so depending on how many heads this has how many psi how many gallons per minute how many the flow will be so just give you guys a quick example if it's valve one that's a one inch valve and it's got these four rotors on it that give you one point seven seven gallons per minute you multiply one point seven seven times four and that would let you know how many gallons per minute that valve is putting out common notes are existing irrigation zones to remain modify and/or adjust to provide 100 percent coverage with 50 percent overlap that's a typical note in every city that you go to they want to have overlapping coverage pump shall require 460 three-phase connection controller will require so they're letting know the electrical system still have four separate hydro zones shrubs turf turf rotor and bubblers so this is a new kind of plan that people are designing now they have zone specified for each specific thing so they're letting you know they're gonna have a vowel that's only gonna water shrubs they're gonna have a vowel that's only gonna water grass Val that's only gonna water grass with rotors and then bounce dedicated completely to bubblers it makes it harder to it makes it a lot easier to maintain uh after a year if you're done with your bubblers you simply shut those vowels off remove the time from the the timer and now you don't have any bubbles anymore instead of having them mixed and in the system so we'll just go here are more details hey Chris I have a question to get on that go ahead okay so for the typical contractor it's not our our responsibility to figure out if the pump is appropriate to whatever heads or rotors have put it on there let's say you have a two horsepower pump and you got ten rotors and ten pop ups chances are it may not be able to actually physically support that many gallons per minute am i that's that's an engineer that's that's well beyond something right I would assume that it's not necesarily it's the inspectors job or the contractors job you're just doing what somebody else is mathematically opposed we mathematically calculated correct correct and that happens all the time not as much as you would like it to happen um but you're right do people design plans that don't work is basically your question right and the answers yeah they could put way too many hands on its own and there's not enough pressure and and there's gonna be areas that are gonna start drying out of Asaad you know because there's not enough pressure because they put too many heads or the the pump could burn out because it's a two horsepower pumps applying a giant system I just had a job where we had a 10 horsepower pump and it was SPECT with a 15 gallon rust inhibitor tank and so that pump was draining that rust inhibitor tank probably every week and nowhere on the contract they did say that we had to be there weekly to refill that rust inhibitor tank so you know they started complaining why is there rust everywhere on the site because it's drawing from a well oh we have rust stains why is this tank always empty and so your your answer as a contractor is its installed per plan yeah you know it's um you you're installing what you're contracted for which is the plan oh you want to add it you want to change it to a 200-gallon tank oh that change order you know your your zones don't work you need to upgrade your pump and you upgrade your bow sighs it's installed per plan you want us to change it change order I have most of our foreman they've been irrigation foreman for like 20 plus years and they can kind of see a plan right off the bat and and let you know if it's gonna work or not you can I know most of my foremen I could say how many heads can I put on a two inch valve and you'll say what's the pump 10 horsepower pump and he'll say 50 to 60 heads depending on the nozzles so they know and they add heads to if they think coverage isn't gonna work that you know we lose a little more money doing that but it keeps the reputation of our company okay thank you no problem Christopher I have a question - go ahead um so you kind of said like with the sleeves and like all the lateral pipes like it was kind of like a birthday gift they figured that all out for you and that kind of goes with the like the plant counts to like hey we need like 1200 of green AHA ficus well you can't really go by what that plan says because ultimately you got to count up I mean that architect could make a mistake on any one of those numbers and you're kind of responsible for not reviewing the plan and just bidding off his numbers where you could get kind of you know ya know uh your route in the long end right yeah I know you're a thousand percent right when I started as a as an intern at Dixie and estimating they literally put me there eight hours a day doing a take-off on the plants here's your plant list that they gave you count every single call out for green island ficus and I guarantee you seven out of ten plants were wrong it's just the way it goes yeah yes that's what I was kind of getting at like if everybody was you know under the perception like hey that the plant is the bots are that the plan is the Bible you know this is what we're bidding like I kind of wanted to let everybody know not really man you got to really go through that and take the time like you said eight hours you know do your beautify I mean it could be twelve hours could be four hours depending on what size but I guess as us bidding these projects we have to make sure that you know this architect is correct in what he's doing because nobody's you know 100 percent perfect and we're gonna catch stuff that he missed and yeah I guess that was my thing but all right cool sounds good yeah no you're right um the you know we added like a running joke in our company because I was an estimator and as an estimator I made my my um count of estimating years of like missed trees miss shrubs and then the project managers would always come back and be like hey you know estimating error you didn't bid these fifteen trees you didn't see them on the plan and and yet that just comes out of your paycheck though right yeah now um so I mean as an estimator you know the the more pressure you're under and the faster you turn around with a bit to always the more room there are for errors if if they had all the time in the world they would they would do takeoffs on every plan and make sure everything is is as good as it gets you know and and to your point to it it could also kind of screw over a contractor and getting rewarded a job and that's happened to us as well where we'll bid a plan where we noticed you know maybe 20 Oh trees that weren't called out on the landscape plan on the on the plant list but they're on the plan but another contractor just bid the plant list and so twenty Oaks by five hundred bucks is 10 grand their their bid is ten grand cheaper than ours because they didn't catch those and yeah in that case there's not much we can really do about it you know what they're gonna come back later and request a change order or they're gonna eat it we've had to eat I mean we eat money all the time and it's a balance I've been down that road too and unfortunately they don't they don't call you back like hey why were you ten thousand more well because I noticed that you guys missed you know a bunch of you know Oaks what have you so all right thank you know n we um we get we get bids that they'll send us a bid day before and and they say we really need this by tomorrow and is that estimator gonna pull an all-nighter making you know forty thousand dollars a year so to get an accurate bid now he's gonna look at the plant list and and get it as close as he can but yeah just to continue here you have details pretty much of anything that that they suspect out on that plant on the irrigation list they should have a detail for it here's a pop up spray on a fixed riser next to a curb pop up bubbler at a plant pit how they want the controller mounted the valves irrigation trenching piping beneath pavement so here is the hi your sleeves look pay attention always - what kind of pipes so they want schedule 40 PVC pipe for the sleeves it could be schedule 40 it could be class 160 there's different sizes of pipe here they have the boxes for the valve boxes they have the back flows and then we'll just take a look at the the plan itself real clear yeah so these new plans that people are making they have dedicated zones to bubblers so what you'll do is when you're installing it you got this valve and you'll find the line coming out of the valve it's 2 inch line leaving the valve that's a 2 inch valve zone 2040 point eight gallons per minute and now lets you know you know this 2-inch pipe changes to a inch and a half it has all these bubblers still an inch and a half and don't go telling you the measurements and breakouts this loop right here when lines intersect each other so that there's no confusion they'll typically loop it over just so you know this line coming from here isn't part of these bowlers it's coming over here and it's this these spray heads you know so I don't think you guys will get too many questions on irrigation some things you gotta look at just always look at the details always look at the sleeving know where you're indexing valve is or your your just your valve follow the details the scale I mean that's like the most important thing scale in North era sleeves irrigation here you can find your pump location so here's your pump rain sensor you can see it's drawing out of the lake point of connection right here in the middle of Lake mainline in that right burial yeah so irrigation plans are simple they're confusing they'll always show easements as well I saw one in the other page you have a 10-foot gas easement don't give you some measurements here and there let me just go over this to make sure I covered everything for you guys yeah that's pretty much it guys I think we're looking good you have your landscape plant your tree disposition plans look at your zoning look at your sizing your spacing look at your existing trees what's going to happen to them we've got um impervious the square footage of the building 8 foot trench uh be maintained just different things and that's pretty much it do you guys have any questions for me a blood good ok on the caliper of the trees it doesn't specify DBH so that automatically six inches above grade for anything under four inch right correct if it's DBH so here you go it says DBH so if it says caliper caliper is six inches above for anything up to four inches and 12 inches at above the ground for anything above four if it says tbh then it is DBH so it is diameter at breast height which i think is like four and a half or five feet above the ground but caliper is caliper and then DBH okay so that only down only muhabba need to call a DBH yep that's the only one that they that they want to look at the DBH on that yeah two and a half okay yeah and then um one question you might get asked is like they uh if you have a multi trunk crepe myrtle that wants a three inch caliper how do you find the 3 inch caliper on a multi-stemmed crepe myrtle yep that's just uh you know if you got three one inch you said the tallest em right no no it's the sum of all the stems for a molar some some okay yep yep anyone else have any questions guys I lost the chat window so I don't know if anyone said anything in the chat window hey yeah hey well I just lost my is there a list of competencies that we need to know from these plans for the exam I have the review questions there is uh Kevin told me not to give them to you guys but if you were paying attention I guarantee you you will ace the plan review part of this you saying all right thank you no problem just if you guys some key things if you have a pen and paper to write down I'll just give you key notes and I made sure to go over with you guys zoning and code requirements is one finding your scale in your North arrow finding your plant list your size your spacing shrubs or trees tree dispositions knowing real relocates removals and remains being able to find utilities and overhead lines on a plan looking at irrigation plans being able to just find where the pump is identify how many gallons a zone is gonna provide what size sleeves are and and looking at details that if you if you guys study those points or if you're feel if you feel comfortable with those points I'm sure you guys will do great so overall the the answers are gonna be on the blueprint yeah everything you're gonna need it is gonna be on the plant I can give you guys like a sample question let me see if I can so like a sample question will be something as simple as how far from an FPL box do your plans need to be and so you go to your planting details and you find the FPL box and find the detail for it another one might be how far apart do your Green Island ficus need to be planted and you would go to your plant lists find that you'd find your Green Island ficus and you you'd look at the spacing of it just being able to know how many trees are being relocated how many are staying knowing on like the street side on the the street trees knowing how far these street trees need to be planted that could be a sample question and that would be typically in this box that they provide you that they need perimeter landscape strips so they need one every 30 linear feet one understory tree so look just being able to identify things every everything is gonna be pretty simple you know what's gonna happen to tree number 447 what happens to it that's as easy as going to treat his position plan finding it on the list and seeing what happens to it or for example the irrigation plan if they say where's we're like where is your water source could be a question and the answer could be on the south side of the building on the west side of the retention pond on the north side of the building these could all be answers and so finding that source and then just finding the answer that that you think will was right so for here you know looks like it's on the north side of the lake then that would be my my guess and that's it I have a question just out of curiosity and in some of these parking lots you'll see they'll plant a large caliper tree and a very narrow Island with curbing do they use any of those like root zone control collars in parking lots to make the roots go deep down below the asphalt yes you when you are referring to sir as root barrier that's it yep if a project calls for a barrier or what we've been doing lately is structural soil depending on the city that you're in don't always call for it and that'll also be in the details let's look in here if you see any see I don't see any details for group area is that typically like a plastic liner like yeah there's different kinds of riparian the most common is the like the you biryu barrier come in 24 36 inch plastic panels that they all kind of like each end will slide in together and they link together and those will let me see you don't have expect out let me see if I can cool it up for you guys yeah if you guys can see this can you guys see this yeah yes so this is this is the typical roo barrier this is probably the most popular one and like you said if it's called out here's like a detail showing deep root root barrier it'll call it out it'll show you where to it it's typically installed around utilities or like you said at the edge of a sidewalk what it means water mains yeah if you're within 5 foot of a water main you know call for true barrier you can see it's in between the curb in the sidewalk here's some insulation details they also have a root barrier that is with chemicals I don't know the exact name of it it looks like this and this row barrier is bio barrier yeah well I haven't used this in a long time I people kind of stopped using it it's more I don't know exactly what chemical it has but you have to handle it with gloves and especially I think the roots when they reach this fabric they kind of just die off it's not as effective as a plastic one because I think over time the chemicals kind of fade and then eventually the roots will just penetrate it anyways is this some sort of like pre-emergent or so ago yeah something like that I think I've only used it once in my life and and I don't think it's ever I've ever seen it's picked out and then for if anyone else wants to see the new the new thing that is being used for Lauderdale's requiring a lot it is a structural soil it's it's essentially just like a dirty Rock it's like 57 rock tossed in with with like muck and it's you installed it underneath sidewalks underneath like patios this is silver cells this is something else but structural soil when they're getting right into the sidewalk depending on the plan you'd excavate it out 30 inches and this structural soil and the big behind that is over time the water the muck will like deteriorate I think apps and the gravel for the roots to grow and into let's go instead of what happens with what happens with just lime rock as you guys know is a good image the root will hit like the lime rock and then it will go upwards and then the only Spacek and fine is between asphalt and like the lime rock base and that's why you always get those cracks in the road and lifted wrote what the structural soil is hoping to do is eventually provide air holes underneath it so that they can wiggle their way into the structural soil that's been proven to work it's been proven I think so okay if you ask if you ask the guy who invented it sure he'd say yes hey I haven't I haven't been around long enough to see like anything that I've installed really if it works or not and I'm telling you I have the last time I use it as this job in Fort Lauderdale and we're planting oak trees and like maybe a three-foot area and between a curve and uh and a sidewalk which we know we tried to get out of it because we knew was a horrible idea but they insisted that because there's structural soil there it would be a good idea oh yeah we'll see if it works I'll let you know in 20 years when I go back to that job site I've seen is used I've seen it used like all the time they plant anything it's structural soil first and it yeah and it's really just dirty rocks but it's the one thing I really like which really expensive as silver cells and this is just if you guys ever have time do some research on it it's it's it's essentially like suspended pavement they put these cells underneath any pavement and then they fill it up with clean soil and then cover it so then you'd put like your sidewalk over it and it like gives the tree space to grow underneath it's really cool it's really expensive they're doing it a lot like on the beach and something like that and it's I mean it's rated enough that cars could drive on it that's something you guys can check out I mean I know cool yeah any other questions guys I have another question as far as like when you're excavating to plant a tree or as far as like putting sod down sometimes they'll say hey you know you put down X amount of 5050 soil or like a clean backfill is there anybody that actually does that like well who checks that number one I mean everyone's got to be competitive and cut corner somewhere but does somebody actually go out there and say yeah there's four inches of soil let's lay to the floor Tam or hey yeah this is excavated you know with and we'll backfill this with clean soil do that how do you guys get away with that I guess is my thing and so bury or you can't speak about it no I'll speak about it as a contractor I think you have to know where to cook when you can cut corners and when you can sunrise Peggy Hill if you know maybe bill I have to request inspections when I excavate out an island in Sunrise population I think pompano any planting island adjacent to a building has to be excavated 30 inches in and backfill so you know when you can kind of like get away with it and when you have to you know naturally all right one more question what do you bid that job at this one I'm just good we're contracted you can't take it yeah yeah yeah all right well thanks man I appreciate all the info no problem guys you know here's just usually there's more details but um here's your detail 12 inches of planting soil mix is required around and beneath the root ball of all trees and palms and about 1 cubic yard per 50 so yeah in this case I'm pretty sure Wade and pompano it's gonna tell his inspector like make sure they're digging out everything 12 inches and and you know not not to throw any shade at Pompano but people bid jobs a lot higher than when they're in Pompano because the amount of inspections you have to pass there I this this will be my first job this year in Pompano book we have another project manager that just finished and he said like he would excavate the island call an inspection request the dirt call an inspection they want him to see that their backfill the island request an inspection lay out the shrubs not even plant them yet lay them out request an inspection and then plant them so how do you calculate that into your bids you um you can't I mean that's it's very very time-consuming to do it that way I mean yeah anybody else I mean I could do the job four times as fast as you could right I mean calling all the inspections and this and that it just prolongs everything so how do you calculate that kind of time involved with just laying out a simple island when we what we've done and and this has happened I've been on Dixie landscape for five years and I've seen it just in the time that I've been there but it really kind of just comes from communication between project management and estimating if you you know you bid a job for a hundred grand and when you finish that job you realize you had 120 grand in costs just because you had to have a crew there waiting six hours for an inspector so that that kind of just it the communication establishes the pricing so we we've had meetings about it where we we say we have to increase the pricing and pompano and the way we do it is I had 50 bucks to every tree so the same tree we would sell in Hialeah for 200 bucks we're selling for 300 bucks and pumping them because because you have to account for that it's gonna take a lot longer gotcha okay yeah I mean that's how we do it interesting note all saud areas a Makita and the planting plan shot receive many we didn't try to pronounce it but Palmetto saw it that's not typical and honestly st. Augustine Palmetto let's see what the what the plant list calls for cuz I guarantee you it probably calls for Saint Augustine yeah Saint Augustine so you know that that's uh Palmetto is more expensive have a question for seaweed so like seaweed compost typhoon we use that a lot is there any research on seaweed oh yeah because I work a for the city of Fort Lauderdale we use like rakes and stuff to pick up seaweed along the beach and we throw it uh we had like a big like towel of seaweed and it turns into sand after a while or soil and it works great like I guess Phil Wow I think I think it'd be super alkaline but I mean I've never tested the soil but it's like well we'll throw that down before we throw like some sod down or something and oh my god like it's so it works great Wow I've never you know using your netid for a lot or no yeah are you as first TV inspector or with uh no no I work with the pest control tech but sometimes I do some of the landscaping stuff or whatever and if we need that fill or whatever we use the ton of cement soil that we have or whatever it just works great are you are you referring to like Sargassum eat the regular seaweed that washes up on the beach yeah yeah they rake up yeah we rake it up and we have a huge I guess the salt must leech out of it eventually yeah yeah that's that's that was my concern originally but I guess it does because it works great it smells bad but it works great never heard of that yeah yeah so do they actually like send you guys out for rape yeah yeah we we have our own crews to see they're going dump it in the huge TV probably a little dump or whatever at one of the parks and to get rid of some of that pile or whatever the huge pile he had back there every time we need to plant something or a filled backfill or something we use that that I haven't seen any you know any any problems or issues it is that this it turns into like a no it's actually like just let it spoil you yeah it's like soil like it turns into like soil that's interesting I'm actually gonna like do some research about that yeah it could be it could be a do you can straight through and some science or something you know hurry up and patent that so you can sell it yeah save you guys some money uh in the future can we have any handout on this I don't have any hand now I think I don't have any hand now I'm just kind of teaching you guys how to look at plans the root barrier question was a great question and if you guys really if you really want I can find a job real quick that has a root barrier on it to show you guys what it would look like much easier pre-construction than post construction that root barrier oh yeah here you go I've got this job and plantation that's got some root beer Lansky and so here I'll pull up just drawing real quick in root barrier it doesn't show up on this landscape one but this one this plan has Lansky I know for a fact this one has usually it'll just show up as like a dashed line here's the detail for it root barrier installed root barrier where true spawns are planted with Intel ten foot of page surface UB 24 that's the one we we pulled up the plastic this will be the detail for it so if I could find it on the plans this plan says oh I [Music] think I think it shows on the civil plans in this project here you go it should be somewhere here I know it requires it around these planters I don't know what's drawing its on oh here you go root barrier it tells you the detail on the landscape plan and then here just shows you it as a dashed line so all this has to have root beer most of the time I'm gonna say 90% of the time it's on the Polanski plane these guys put it on their hard scape plan which when you're bidding a job you know most of the time as a landscape country but you don't even look at the heart skeet plant because you unless you're bidding the hardscape this is something that could easily be missed on a bid just because it's on a different plan a Chris one quick question yep I know Dixie used to do a lot of work in Miami Beach if I&