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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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

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

Who made this

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

Every number on these sheets is the kind Ledge carries for you on a real job: the burdened hour, the man-hours a price buys, what the crew actually did against it. The first ten shops run Ledge free; we make money only on payments. If you want to see it on your own jobs, there's one person to talk to.