● Project in progress — Toronto

The King High Project

A full exterior build in Toronto, handled end to end by the Pisces crew: drainage, grading, landscaping, sod, driveway, heated driveway, interlock and a retaining wall. Right now the ground work is underway — lot grading around both buildings and the front-yard soakaway pit for the drainage system. Follow along as the site takes shape.

Orange layout lines marking the soakaway pit location in the front yard — Layout marked out — soakaway pit location, front yard

Mini excavator digging the drainage excavation — Mini excavator at work — drainage excavation

Soakaway pit excavation in the front yard — Soakaway pit excavation — front yard

Soakaway excavation covered with safety fencing and caution tape — Excavation secured with safety fencing

Fresh grading along the side yard beside the building — Grading along the side yard

Grading run to a string line along the foundation — Grading to the line at the foundation

Final grading taking shape beside the building — Final grading taking shape

Graded lane tracked in between the two buildings — Graded and tracked in between the buildings

Long side yard with the mini excavator working at the far end — Drainage works in progress — machine on site

Full-lot grading pass along the building — Full-lot grading pass

Grading in progress at the garden suite frontage — Garden suite frontage — grading in progress

Watch: grading & drainage in progress

The site film — about a minute on location at the King High Project, from layout lines and the soakaway excavation to the final grading passes.

Drainage, engineered — the soakaway system

Roof water from both buildings is collected and soaked safely into the ground on site — no flooding, no pooling against the foundation. The pit is wrapped in Terrafix 270R geotextile, filled with 38–50 mm clear stone around a perforated distribution pipe, capped with pea gravel, and fitted with a test well and an overflow to a splash pad — built to the engineered plan.

Soakaway pit system diagram — downspout catch basin, inlet pipe, geotextile-wrapped infiltration chamber bedded in clear stone, with plan and section views — How a soakaway drainage system is built: catch basin at the downspout, a geotextile-wrapped infiltration chamber bedded in clear stone, and the lawn restored on top. Illustrative system diagram.

Terrafix 270R geotextile wrap 38–50 mm clear stone fill Perforated distribution pipe Test well + overflow to splash pad Built to the engineered plan

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Full project scope

One contract, one crew, every exterior trade sequenced properly — drainage and grading first, surfaces and finishes as the build moves forward.

DrainageSoakaway pit and drainage works — underway now

GradingLot grading around both buildings — underway now

LandscapingFull landscape finish across the property

Sod / LawnFresh lawn areas once grading is set

DrivewayNew driveway build

Heated DrivewayHydronic snow-melt system in the driveway scope

InterlockInterlocking stone surfaces

Retaining WallRetaining wall construction

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