Cost of Retaining Wall with 2000lb BLOCKS
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- Опубликовано: 15 янв 2021
- Since we put had this massive retaining wall installed with 2000 lb castle blocks we have been asked several questions.
What was the cost?
Where do you get huge retaining wall blocks?
What did you have before you got 1-ton retaining wall blocks?
In this short video I answer all of these questions so you know where to buy big concrete blocks in your area.
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Shawn 
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Just got a quote for 80' foot long 3' tall for 20k. Concrete block. Thanks for letting me know I was getting ripped off. Northern Indiana.
I to am northern Indiana. Near Angola. I know that's a complete rip off.
No fluff, no noise, straight to the bone marrow. Great info!
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TFW you start watching a video and realize you've watched it before, but you watch it all the way through anyway with everything you've learned since then. ;)
I guess that's Subscribe time. Thanks man!
Thank you
Amazing Video! Thank you so much for sharing really helpful!
thank you for the kind words
That was short and to the point with lots of cost figures thrown in. Great video man!! This has helped me tons!
Thank you for the comment!
it didn't show the end result, and he didnt talk about backfill and water movement so it didn't really cover everything
Thank you. That was a huge help to me.
you are welcome
thanks for the honest video.
Thank you
You're a good guy it was definitely worth subscribing to , thanks ❗✌
thanks for the kind words
thanks for all the info!!
You are welcome
Nice job on the retaining wall
Thank you
Those two 12 packs of Heineken earned you a like.
Thank you! Hope you are having a great weekend
peace! Love it!
Transparency kicks ass. 👌 I love how the Mrs is like omg, just do something so I, like, never have to hear about this fukn wall and/or subject, EVER AGAIN!
Favorite comment ever!!!!
Hey there, great video. I'm looking to get a big project done on our landscape which involves installing a retaining walls. I'm thinking a 10+ ft wall but the biggest challenge is where to start. The goal is to raise and level the front yard and then place a two car garage on it. Do you have any suggestions or ideas that you can share? Also, for a large project like that, what are the average cost that you've seen? Thank you.
It general everything costs more that I think it should😁 so you are looking to raise up one side like on a hill to put a garage on the hill? If so I did that exact thing. I paid a few hundred to get a little dirt work done to flatten the are for the building....built the building....and then put a wall in to dress it up and prevent erosion. Is that what you are thinking?
i love how real this video is
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Question: How many blocks did you purchase? Did I miss that? Also, are they 1,000 LB or 2,000, as indicated by the title? Thanks so much for the info... gives me lots to think about.
The bottom row are 2000 lbs and the top row are 1000 lbs. I think the total was around 60 total blocks and they all were the same price. Thanks for the comment and hope you are having a great weekend
Thanks for the info bud what did you get back surgery for?
Thanks for the comment- the first one was rugby and the second was I was in an elevator that failed and crashed in Scotland and 3rd through 6th was fallout’s of the first 2
Details like how long, how deep, how many days would be appreciated
The stones are 4 ft wide, 2 ft tall and 2 ft deep. They weigh a full ton and the half blocks weigh a half a ton. The crew I hired was done in a day and a half.
Ps thanks for watching and I appreciate the questions
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Cheers!
The key to a good wall is to have drainage tile behind it..then backfilled with stone. Water is the destroyer of most walls. I built my wall w 2x2x6ft bin blocks, 4ft high x250ft long. Each block was $45 pc and 3600 lbs, but I transported them and set them myself. 4" corrugated tile behind it with 12" washed gravel over it.
Sounds like you know what you are doing …..I must like learning things the hard way
Local manufacturers in our area won’t sell direct and local retailers charge a butt load.
Sorry to hear that. Thanks for the comment
Definitely got a deal on the blocks, most sell for 90 a face to $120 a face.. Then delivery and equipment, that is a 8k$ job easily.. if not 10k$ ...
Wow that is crazy to hear how the prices have gone up. I don’t see the blocks posted like a couple of years ago because at least here in eastern Iowa there is now a huge back order. Thanks for sharing and hope you are having a good weekend
A guy just quoted me $7k for a similar wall using 8ft blocks. 80 feet long by 4 feet tall.
You definitely got hooked up on that deal. I just quoted a wall job with the same block 46’ long 6’ high at $10,800 but that also includes a 46x8 concrete pad in front of it.
So $4k 1 1/2 courses? How long? Approximately
I’m guessing at 120 ish ft
Where abouts in Iowa are you?
Jones County - the greatest place on earth
What state u guys in?
Eastern Iowa
Lol, he didn't pay $35 a block, ha, ha. 😂😂
Yes I did
Yeah you might want to say the size of the wall.
Wow. They’re like giant LEGOs. 😂
Yes that is a perfect way to describe them
I just got a quote for $7000 for a wall like this. 80ft long by 4ft tall.
Wow! Could you the blocks and rent a skid steer yourself?
You didn’t say where to get them.
Sure I did - I said call your local concrete company.
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it doesn't work unless i tell the truth. thanks for the comment
PROLOCK WALLS
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So $26. worth of beer for $120. of concrete? Ok, I'm gone.
Thanks for the comment. It’s not always about the money
Its worse than left over concrete, most come from rejected concrete for slump test etc.
I hadn’t thought about that but I believe you. I’m not sure in my case it makes a difference but if you were going several rows higher it would matter. What do you think?
Ran a concrete batch plant for 10 years and poured a few hundred of the metric sized blocks (takes about 1.5 yds/block), almost all were poured with leftover mud. Even if it was from concrete that was rejected due to slump, they are not structural, they will hold up fine. Delivered 1000's of yards of concrete when I drove a ready mix and most of the rejected due to slump loads were maybe .5-1.5" over slump or even under slump where no additional water was allowed on jobsite, drivers don't leave the yard with say an 8" slump on a job that calls for a 4, usually leave with between a 4 to 5 depending on mix design and travel distance. Only times I saw drivers get slumps way off were weird mix designs (usually super plasticizer added or a 50/50 slag cement mix + super P) that look like a 7 in the drum, show about the same on the trucks slump gauge but slump out to an 8 or 9 on the job, even seasoned drivers like myself had hard times with some of the mix designs our company came up with. And a lot of those weird mix designs were 5000+ PSI designs so even if it was a wet load, would probably still break at 2500+ PSI which is plenty strong enough for a bunker block.
Get to the freakin point!
Thanks for comment and watching our video. Hope you are having a great day
Too much of this guy's face. And that is any amount.
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