Build Subsequent Courses with Geogrid and Backfill

same. Meaning you can create a boilerplate template to help guide you modify your numbers for a specific job. So let's break down exactly how we would do a phase 2 build uh bid on a retaining wall build. [Music] So, here's how you break down a retaining wall bit. It's your basic materials. It's your block. It's your rock. It's delivery of your materials. And it's the installation of your materials. It's those four nice little pieces of the puzzle put together. So, just to make life easy, let's say your block price is $10 a square foot. Now, you need your rock. And this is where most companies skimp. They think they're saving money. Worst possible thing you can do. Don't freaking skimp on your rock. Add more rock because it's super duper cheap insurance. If you are a landscaping company, put in more rock than you need to. But if you want to know the exact amount of right or rock to put in, it's 200 pounds per square foot. So let's break this down for you. If you have a 100 square ft wall, you multiply it by 200 and then you take that number and you divide by 2,000. And the reason you divide by 2,000 is you don't buy your stone on a price per pound, you buy it per ton. So, you're figuring out how many pounds you need to put into your wall. And the key factor is 200 lb per square foot, but you're buying it per ton. So divide by 2,000. You've also got to calculate in your travel time. That is the delivery of the materials to your job site. You seen Trucker John pissed off cuz he was stuck in traffic. Trucker John was delivering all of our materials. He had all of these guys waiting for him. So, uh, the delivery is a vital component. You've got to calculate in your delivery time and then your install. How long is it going to take you to install this? So, when you put those four pieces of the puzzle together, it should create a template that will help you go out and bid almost every single retaining wall job you do. But there's nuances to that. In this job, you're going to see that we're putting in geog grid. Geogrid means we've got extra excavation, we've got extra back fill, we've got extra compaction. So, we've got to start to take in those small fluctuations into our price. But once we have the generalized guideline on how to bid these things, we can then modify that on a job per job basis. If that doesn't help you out, then I don't know what will. So, give me a thumbs up if it does or a hell yeah in the comments. Hell yeah. Give me a hell yeah.