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I'm Declan Hopkins, owner of Cornerstone Site Works. We were established in twenty twenty. I've been in the hardscape industry about eighteen years now. We service the Lake Norman, North Carolina area based out of Mooresville, North Carolina. I first learned about Rosetta products from the local rep from Peerless Block. They reached out to us about four years ago, and we fell in love with the product, and we've been installing it ever since. Our first Rosetta hardscapes installation was in twenty twenty two. It was in Sheryls Ford, North Carolina, and it was a Grand Ledge retaining wall. We really enjoy using the Rosetta Hardscape products from the height tolerances, the face finish, and honestly, the size of the units make for an extremely fast and easy installation. All the guys love installing a Rosetta wall. We don't have to lift hundred pound blocks. We're able to swing the excavator over and build a wall. So we've been able to change our business model somewhat from a more labor intensive business to more of a machine company. We're able to use the equipment to help set the blocks, prepare the base, all the way up through the cap with the Rosetta products. The Rosetta products have allowed us to install walls where we might not otherwise have been able to install a SRW style wall. We've got multiple projects that we've used a concrete backfill where traditional geogrid methods wouldn't have worked, and Rosetta was the only product that we were able to get in our market that fit the bill for that. The Rosetta products are produced locally to our market, and so we're able to have a rep that's fairly local that we're able to call if we've got a question or an issue and able to get product fairly quickly if we need even with the large scale of the product. So for this particular project behind me, we ended up actually getting custom colors made from the, local manufacturer, and they produced a pallet of each color and shipped them down. And we were able to set up a sample wall for the customer about a year before the project. And that way, he was able to select the color he wanted, and we could make any changes so that each house was unique. This project in particular, we had an issue with some of the corner units being out of height tolerance and made a phone call, and we had a truck here two days later with brand new product that fit the tolerance. And we were able to swap out those corner units very easily and continue on with the project. So in particular, we've got a project that we installed down in Charlotte that they were in the design phase for approximately two years before we were involved, and they were not able to get another wall to be engineered, to be installed in that location just based off of how close the wall was to the condos behind it. And Rosetta was the only one that came to the table and assisted us in the engineering and got us a product that that would work for them. So the Rosetta products have a great natural looking finish, especially here on the lake where most things are trying to fit into the surrounding area. There's a lot of boulders and natural rocks, and the Rosetta products have allowed us to integrate an engineered retaining wall that is perfect in height, not natural stone, and we're able to build much quicker and the homeowners absolutely love it. The Rosetta products have helped us grow our business just through the ability to take on larger projects and be more efficient at the installation and truly bring something that most other installers in the area are not offering or able to offer due to equipment and just trying to do a labor install versus a large scale block like this. I would definitely recommend the Rosetta products. Just make sure you're in a different market than us. We want to continue to install in the Lake Norman area, and we truly enjoy the installation process.

So this project here, is owned by Highwood Properties. They wanted to keep people after people started coming back to work after the pandemic. They were trying to get people to retain customers and tenants and get more people in there. So they started thinking of different amenity areas to kinda keep people in the building. Top floor folks said something about a putting green, and they went all out. And so they put this in. So that's how this whole kinda idea came up with in the first place. When we first got this set of plans, it was actually cast-in-place. We were basically like, we'll do it, but we're going to include a brand new set of forms to do these tight radiuses. So they're like, what other options do you have? Somebody threw out rubble. We had just started working on a Kodah project up in the North Georgia mountains at a place called Big Canoe, and we're saying, hey, what about Kodah? City loved it, which is a plus. The owners loved it. They also liked the cost savings. We started out, cast-in-place, went to rubble, ended up with Kodah. It was just a great solution to what they needed. Now, we didn't even get to the point of quoting cast-in-place. Just basically kicked it to the curb. As far as, granite rubble walls go, if anybody knows Atlanta, we are on a huge vein of granite, okay, and it's readily available. But the labor intensity of putting up a masonry rubble wall, the length of the project, cost. So the real cost savings came in the easy use and the installation methods, really. Time savings, as well. It was great. Went to the website, was able to get all the information we needed for our civil engineer and he did the plans. Yeah, they gave him all the information on grid testing and all that kind of thing. I think our tallest wall here is around seven or eight feet. We do have a terraced wall, so if you put them together, it's probably closer to ten or eleven. And then these smaller walls, we completely scrapped the plan. I'd love for you to see what's here now compared to the plan. It doesn't look anything like it because it wasn't gonna work. And anybody who's been in the contracting world knows that's very common. We had our wall crews come in and do the larger walls. All the grading and everything. And then we had to put in the greens. And then we did these smaller walls. Basically, just a terrace at a time and did a lot of head scratching and painting on the ground and tried to figure out what would happen because none of these, smaller walls are over four feet. I would say, the uniqueness of wet cast versus, you know, low slump dry cast products. You get more detail, you can get a little bit more color variation, more undulations, more of a realistic look. You know, we have what we call finger boulders that are big, popular here in Atlanta, you know, with doing boulder walls. It's a nice option to that as well. People like the look. We're really excited about the Grand Ledge, as well. That's something that we're really eager to get out of there. Hopefully, if we do Grand Ledge at Westminster, you guys can come back out. I would absolutely recommend Rosetta to any of my colleagues, competitors. The versatility - especially of Kodah - you can't beat it.