Measure Retaining Wall Returns

to show you how we do that it's easy so here we are looking at this return right here and this is what I call the return it this the wall that runs up alongside the steps we measure the return the same way we measure the average height of the wall we just go what's the length of the return in this case it's six feet we go the halfway point which is 3 foot we measure the height of the wall at that point which is 2T we're going to add one foot for embedment this return is going to be 18 square ft so it's 6 * 3 okay we got one two returns so we know we've got 18 and 18 we got 36 square feet just in these returns don't forget to measure those they're going to be a little bit more of a pain in the butt to install so make sure your quantities are strong on these things because the worst thing you can do is put a lot of Labor and time in it and then short your yourself on materials as well so you want to protect yourself make sure you get a good strong estimate on something like this that's the way I do all my returns average return is usually between 15 and 20 square feet I don't even measure them anymore but for this video I wanted to show you how we come up with those I may actually technically put this proposal in at a little above 18 square feet because it is such a steep run narrow opening doesn't give my installers much room to work next let's