Measure Main Retaining Wall Section

we're going to also measure the retaining wall and I'm going to take you through the measuring process right now because we're going to break the wall down into its simplest components and that's on a per square foot basis and I'm going to cover with you back in the office when we put all these numbers together why we want to know exactly how many square feet we've got in this wall and how we're going to format our proposals to take that into consideration another component of this project is excavation I want you to look at this this this garage wall right here is actually acting as a retaining wall and it might be a little difficult to see from the video but this garage wall is in a state of failure you've already have a crack here that they've tried to repair with plaster which is nothing more than an aesthetic fix at that point structurally that that patch does absolutely nothing the only way to save this this garage wall is to take the pressure off to take the pressure off I have to go up and dig the soil off from the garage wall so all of this dirt that you see here it has to be excavated off and then I have to build the retaining wall about 3 4T off from this garage wall and then tie it in on the end okay to dig this out is a separate component that's the excavation number and it's not a very big excavation job but it's not an easy one it's a matter of getting a mini excavator up here so we what we'll be doing is we'll be removing that retaining wall and not building a new wall but building a ramp up into this backyard and then we come through the backyard and we use a miniature excavator and we carefully pull the soil off you got to be real cautious how you do this because you got to realize every time you dig down you're putting pressure on a failed garage wall so you do little scoops and you scoop backwards instead of going back what you do is you kind of gently scrape away to pull pressure off and that's how you're going to solve that problem get this off and give you enough space to come in to build your retaining wall in this case that's why we're going to itemize just this component of it because it's going to be expensive and the customer needs to understand where that money is coming from where their money is actually going to and so when you itemize it you protect yourself you clarify it for the customer they have a better understanding and it's not that magic mystery lump sum number that I'm telling you guys to avoid you build profits…