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Foundation Wall Repair and Waterproofing (Chunk 2)

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Building wall collapses

What happens here

After clearing the debris, install a new concrete block foundation wall to replace the collapsed section. Apply a black waterproofing membrane (e.g., asphalt emulsion or fluid-applied membrane) to the exterior of the newly installed wall. This membrane creates a barrier against moisture intrusion, protecting the foundation from future water damage. Ensure adequate overlap and proper sealing for complete coverage.

Goal: Reconstruct the damaged foundation wall and protect it from moisture.

Tools and materials

  • Concrete blocks — Rebuilding the foundation wall
  • Mortar — Bonding concrete blocks
  • Rollers or brushes — Applying waterproofing membrane
  • Trowel — Applying mortar
  • Waterproofing membrane — Protecting the exterior of the new wall from moisture

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you're going to keep track of every single expense associated with that job because that one single job sets up the blueprint for how you're going to bid all of your future work when you start to calculate data on every single one of your jobs it tightens up your numbers for future projects the Beauty and the curse of what we do as contractors is no two jobs are ever alike but we can calculate data and use bits and pieces from past projects to help us figure out our future projects so when we look at a job like this we start to break down exactly how we do it and on a project like this we try to make it into bite-sized chunks how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time and I'm gonna teach you in just a moment how we break down a job into bite-sized chunks so we can take this monster elephant in the room and make it digestible and understandable so we break this down into bite-sized chunks and the first bite-sized chunk is removing clean just cleaning up the failed wall the second bite size trunk is replacing the re the wall that failed the third bite-sized chunk is backfilling compacting and putting the dirt back so now instead of having one big monstrous thing that we're trying to understand we've got three little components that we can then put together at the end of the day and one of the things I Gotta Throw in here to make sure I get answered and I planned on doing it later on and the video is I showed you how to take this son of a duck and turn it into a day-to-day understandable number do the exact same thing with this one Whatever you want your profits to be that's how much money you need to understand you should make in profits on a per day-to-day basis so this one and this one go hand in hand these two oh look at that there they're like that but sometimes they don't get along alright so next up let's break this thing down and show you what we did so let's break down chunk number one and before we actually go through these numbers line item per line item I need you to understand these aren't the real numbers I'm not here to go to the back of the book and cheat and give you the actual answers if I spoon feed you little baby birds the answers what happens is you don't learn it and the most important thing you need to do is learn and understand not be given the answers what I am going to do is I'm going to give you the guideline right now so chunk number one clean up this is how we break this down labor how many hours is a guy going to be shoveling…

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