Calculate Demolition Quantities and Costs

coordinating all of this all right so Alex when we first came out here we had a small uh strip mall that was here and then behind it there was just this hill of soil that came straight down and the general contractor wanted me to remove the strip mall wanted me to remove the existing parking lot wanted me excavate for that retaining wall before I did anything else how would you approach that I would first come in here by looking at what it's going to take to prep this site to begin building a retaining wall coming in here how much dirt I'm going to have to pull out how much work it's going to get to actually remove the building remove the actual existing parking lot get everything prepped so we can get in here and start building the wall so when we were doing the the first calculations the way I did it was I took the building and I actually calculated how many dumpsters it was going to take to remove the building is that how you would go about doing it I would have a price per dumpster I would figure out how much time it takes to take down the building crunch up the material loaded into the dumpster and then the actual disposal cost of the dump the dumpster so I'd figure it out by a per dumpster price so by the time I was done bidding it I would have X amount of dumpsters in there at a set price how do you eat an elephant it's one bite at a time okay so if you ever hear that saying how to eat an elephant one bite at a time means you're going to start breaking the the job down into smaller chunks that make it easy for you to understand so in a project like this I would take the excavation and calculate how many cubic yards is that building going to fill up where am I going to be hauling that building to and how much is it going to cost me to dump that material do you do anything different when you're calculating your demolitions so usually like the dumpster cost includes the trip and the disposal fee depends depends on who you work with depends on who you're working with and if you're doing the hauling yourself right yeah so like we're not set up to have rolloffs which are going to be the better uh tool to use for a demo I would think so usually when you hire a dumpster there they give you there hey I'm 500 bucks a dumpster out or 600 bucks a dumpster out so you know that includes their hauling their disposal fee that's everything to do with the dumpster off the site so I know that that's included in my price per dumpster fee not including the time for me…