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Measure Garage Wall as Template

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How to do Retaining Wall Bids, Estimates and Proposals

What happens here

Measure the inside length and height of the garage wall that will serve as a template for the new retaining wall. This particular garage wall is approximately 22 feet long. The estimated average height of the retaining wall to be built outside is 4.5 feet, plus 1 foot for embedment, totaling 5.5 feet. This calculation yields 121 square feet (22 feet x 5.5 feet). The total estimated square footage for the entire retaining wall project (main wall + returns + garage template) is 298 square feet (137.5 + 40 + 121). This is the quantity that will be used in the proposal for the new retaining wall installation.

Goal: Calculate the square footage for the retaining wall section adjacent to the garage.

Tools and materials

  • Tape Measure — Measuring the length and height of the garage wall

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that so we're inside this garage right now and one of the things I want to point out to you is we are actually building the retaining wall on the outside of this structure there really not feasible to measure it out there so what I'm going to Simply do is I'm going to take my tape measure I'm going to measure the length of this garage and then I'm going to measure the estimated height of the retaining wall outside now this garage is your your typical garage which is about 22 ft long but we got to we're going to compensate a little bit we always want our our um estimated numbers to be just a titch higher it's a safety factor for you and the customer this one's 22 ft long this garage wall is 4 feet 4 and 1/2 ft pretty much the same as what we have over there we're going to go by 5T in this case so that's how we're going to come up with the quantity for this to make sure that when we do the install we know we've got the main wall measured we've got the two returns measured and then we've used this garage wall as our template for a retaining wall which gets installed outside of it and we have our excavation number that we're going to go back over

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