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10/21/2026

🚧 BEFORE THE WALLS GO IN, GET THE GROUND RIGHT. 🧱

We’re at the Princeton project bringing in clean crushed stone for the Superior Walls system. Here’s how we figure out how deep to dig. 👇

📐 Start with the finished first-floor elevation and work down:
✔️ Subtract the full floor assembly above the foundation wall—16½ inches in this example, accounting for framing, sill plates, subfloor, and finishes.
✔️ Subtract the foundation wall height—we’re using nine feet here.
✔️ Subtract the specified stone depth—we’re using six inches.

📏 That gives you the planned subgrade elevation—the level of the ground underneath your stone, before any additional engineered undercut. These are example numbers. Your foundation wall heights, framing, and stone depth all vary according to your plans.

👷 Always refer back to the approved plans and your geotechnical engineer’s recommendations. Depending on the soil, you could be digging deeper to remove weak ground and building back up with three feet of stone—if that’s what the engineer specifies.

🪨 Properly prepared crushed stone helps spread the foundation’s weight onto the soil below and supports drainage. The ground underneath still needs to carry that weight.

🔎 Get a soil bearing capacity test done before the foundation goes in. I’ll touch more on why that matters in our next video.

💪 Know your elevations. Follow the plans. Build on proper support.

📍 Princeton, New Jersey
🏗️ CMG Contracting LLC
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10/16/2026

Clean fill doesn't come from just anywhere.

Every load of material that moves between CMG job sites has been tested and certified. That's not optional — that's the standard we operate by on every project, every time.

Here's what's happening in this video:

When a site generates clean, tested fill material, instead of paying to dispose of it and then paying again to import new fill somewhere else, we move it directly from one job to the next. The material is already certified. The client saves on disposal and import costs. Nothing gets wasted.

On the receiving end, the D3 dozer is waiting. 🚜 As each dump truck unloads, the dozer operator pushes the material back, spreads it evenly, and keeps the grade flat and ready for the next load. It's a continuous cycle — truck dumps, dozer pushes, ground stays clean and level.

This kind of coordination between the driver, the operator, and both job sites is what keeps material costs under control and schedules on track.

Moving dirt efficiently is not just about having the right equipment. It's about knowing where the material is going, what it's going to be used for, and how to sequence the operation so nothing sits idle.

📍 New Jersey | CMG Contracting
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10/14/2026

The last thing you want to do is rip out a gas line at 1:00 in the morning.

That's not a hypothetical. That's the reality of working on live utilities at night on a job that's already far along and can't afford a setback.

$3.5 million house in Livingston. Plumbing roughed in. Everything staged for final connections to the city service lines. One wrong move and you're not just stopping the job — you're calling the gas company at midnight explaining what happened.

Here's what we're doing and why it matters:

🔵 Water main connection — the existing copper service line has already been located. We shut off the valve, cut the line, cap it, and abandon it in place.

💧 Wet tap — instead of shutting down the main to make the new connection, we tap directly into the live main. Every other house on the street keeps water while we make the tie-in for this one.

📐 Two foot offset — the new tap goes in two feet over from the old abandoned line. Clean connection, proper separation, no conflict.

This is a routine connection on paper. In practice, working around live gas, live water, and live electrical in a confined excavation at night requires focus and experience.

Know what's there before you dig. Every single time.

📍 Livingston, NJ | CMG Contracting
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10/13/2026

Eight trucks. 24–30 loads. One team. 🚛

Keeping that material moving takes coordination. Drivers knowing their routes, operators keeping trucks loaded, and the crew keeping the site organized. We also had officers helping keep traffic moving steadily while the trucks came in and out.

Every person has a part in getting it done.

Sebastian also touched on what it’s like working here at CMG. We spend so much time together that we become like family. Some weeks, we’re with each other more than we’re home with our own families.

Early mornings, long days, and time away from the people we’re working to provide for. Those sacrifices deserve recognition.

The work we do helps build the housing and infrastructure other families depend on. Being able to turn on the hot water, turn on the stove, cook dinner, and come home to a place they call their own—there’s a lot of work behind those everyday comforts.

Our crew is part of making that happen, and I want these guys to know their work is appreciated.

That’s the culture we’re building at CMG. People who take pride in their work and look out for each other.

Demolition. Excavation. Sewer, water, and storm drainage. Grading and full site development throughout New Jersey.

Have a project coming up? Give us a call.

📍 New Jersey | CMG Contracting
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10/10/2026

If there's rain in the forecast, we're canceling the pour. Every time.

It sounds simple. But in this business there's always pressure to push through — the schedule, the crew, the pump truck already booked, the client waiting. And sometimes contractors roll the dice.

We don't.
Here's what happens when you pour concrete in the rain and the deck is exposed:
The water hits the decking, travels down, and starts dripping onto fresh concrete below. Slow and steady. Death by a thousand cuts.

Every drop leaves a mark. By the time the pour is done you've got drip patterns across the entire floor. On a finished slab that's going to be the final look, that's not a cosmetic issue — that's an expensive one.

There are fixes. You can grind the surface down and re-polish it. You can apply a self-leveler. Solutions exist.

But why create the problem in the first place?

The cost of rescheduling a pour is inconvenience. The cost of fixing a compromised finished slab is real money, real time, and a conversation with a client you don't want to have.

I want to sleep well at night. My client deserves to sleep well at night. And my guys shouldn't have to fight the rain while trying to finish concrete.
Check the forecast. Protect the work. Reschedule if you have to.

The slab will still be there tomorrow.

📍 New Jersey | CMG Contracting
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10/07/2026

45 yards of concrete. One shot. No room for error.

The Superior Wall foundation is in. Today we pour the basement slab for the apartment building in Princeton, and by the time this day is done, it's done. Concrete doesn't give you a second chance.

Before the first truck ever pulled up, every piece of this had to be in place:

🧱 Mason crew: staged, briefed, and ready to move the moment the pour starts.

🚛 Pump truck: positioned and coordinated so concrete reaches every corner of the slab without interruption.

🚦 Traffic control: the town required a cop out front to manage the street. That permit and that coordination happened days before today.

This is what sequencing actually looks like on a real job. Not a list on paper, a live operation where every person has a role, every role has a time, and the whole thing runs on the clock from the moment the first truck arrives.

If one piece falls behind, everything behind it slows down. And concrete doesn't wait.

The mason crew, the pump operator, the officer out front, every one of them was part of making this happen today.

We plan the work. We execute the plan. We hit our mark.

We don't miss.

📍 Princeton, NJ | CMG Contracting
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10/06/2026

Blue stone doesn’t care about your schedule. 🪨

The big boys in development do their homework before the first machine shows up. Soil borings. Geotechnical reports. Rock testing when needed. They use that information to plan the equipment, price the excavation, and build the schedule.

That same thinking belongs on smaller jobs, too.

On this Princeton site, four hours of work barely made a dent. We had to bring in a 5,000-pound hydraulic hammer. At $5,000 a day just for the machine, that changes your numbers fast.

A proper geotechnical investigation helps answer some expensive questions:

🪨 How deep does the rock start, and where does it affect the planned excavation?

🔨 What’s its strength and condition? Can it be ripped, or are we looking at heavy hammering? Does blasting need to be evaluated?

💰 What does that mean for equipment, production, hauling, and the construction budget?

A boring report won’t show you every condition across the property. It gives your engineer and contractor a stronger basis for planning—and you still need money set aside for unknowns.

If you’re buying or acquiring land, pay for the borings during due diligence. Have your engineer scope the investigation around what you’re actually building, including the foundation and underground utilities. Review the findings with your sitework contractor and price the potential rock work before you commit.

Skipping that homework can leave you figuring out the cost with a crew and equipment already on site.

What’s underneath that property can change the entire deal.

📍 Princeton, NJ | CMG Contracting 🔗 cmgcontractingllc.com

10/04/2026

GOOD DRIVERS AREN’T CHEAP. CHEAP DRIVERS AREN’T GOOD. 🚛

Shout-out to Sebastian. He came from a company where he felt unappreciated, and we welcomed him with open arms. He’s been an asset to CMG ever since.

Good people deserve to know they’re appreciated. Glad to have you behind the wheel, brother. Show Sebastian some love! 💪

📍 NJ | CMG Contracting
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10/02/2026

SHOUT-OUT TO MIKEY 👊

Hard worker. Seriously skilled operator. First one here, last one to leave. He doesn’t just tell the guys what to do—he gets his hands dirty alongside them. That’s leading by example.

Guys like him are hard to come by. Proud to have him leading the crew at CMG. 💪

📍 Princeton, NJ | CMG Contracting
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09/30/2026

🌙 MIDNIGHT ROAD WORK IS LOUD AS SH*T—BUT THERE’S A REASON WE’RE OUT HERE NOW.

We’re breaking up the roadway to complete the underground work for the residence behind us. With multiple schools nearby, local businesses and heavy commuter traffic, doing this during the day would create a complete disaster.

Before starting, we coordinated with the town and traffic sergeant and received permission to close the roadway at night.

Yes, we apologize to the neighbors. It’s late, it’s loud and nobody wants construction outside at midnight. But sometimes the least disruptive option for the entire community is getting the work done while most traffic is off the road.

Good sitework requires more than digging. It takes planning, municipal coordination, proper traffic control and a crew prepared to execute within a limited work window.

Less traffic. Less disruption. Get in, get it done and open the road back up. 💪

📍 Livingston, New Jersey
🏗️ CMG Contracting LLC
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