CMU Retaining Wall

Under 4 feet you don't need an engineer. Except 4 feet is measured from the bottom of the footing, so the wall you can build without a stamp is about 24 inches.

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The sheets are ready now. The episode lands here the day it's up.

What this one covers

  1. 1

    Build it in five steps, and every step is bought in a different unit: a foot, a square foot, a cubic yard, a day, and a job.

  2. 2

    The line nobody quotes: the grout costs more than the block. And the specs that decide whether you're back in 2 years.

  3. 3

    What one more course does to the price when it crosses 48 inches, and how to price a footer so it's based on something.

The sheets

This episode hasn't been recorded yet. The sheets go up here the same day it does.

Prices are mine. Yours are different. The math is the same.

Who made this

Ledge is landscape design-build software. These sheets are the thinking underneath it.

The sheet teaches the math once. Ledge carries it on every job after: the burdened hour, the man-hours the price bought, and what the crew actually did against it, side by side the day the truck is unloaded. The first ten landscape design-build firms run it free, and we make money only when your client pays you. If you want to see it on your own jobs, you talk to me.