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Initial Site Assessment and Project Scope

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How to do Retaining Wall Bids, Estimates and Proposals

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The first step is to perform an initial site assessment and understand the scope of work. Identify existing structures that need removal, such as an old secondary retaining wall and concrete steps. Note any critical areas, like the failing garage wall that requires a new retaining wall to be built behind it to alleviate pressure. This involves visual inspection to understand the terrain and the existing conditions.

Goal: Understand the full scope of removals, excavation, and new wall installation.

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okay it's time to build a retaining wall what you're going to see behind me is a wall that we built a few years ago for a customer in a site in Minneapolis we use the versalock standard units on this course the customer did their own secondary retaining wall um they use a different block I wouldn't recommend doing that but uh they did this after the fact and out of our control and when you look at this garage you can see where we actually had to dig back the soil to sneak a wall in behind this garage to keep the pressure off from the garage from the yard today I'm going to

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