Estimating Your Projects

Allan Block makes it easy to estimate your materials. Download the estimating tool below to quickly calculate the amount of block, capstones, and other materials for your retaining wall, patio seating wall and/or fence projects.

The new AB Estimating Tool is now available to download. This is a new cross platform tool that combines retaining walls, AB Courtyard, and AB Fence.

Estimating tool for retaining walls, patio seating walls, and fence systems

AB Estimating Tool

Installing the AB Estimating Tool

Installing on a PC

Download the ABEstimating(Windows).ZIP file by clicking the button above. Save this .ZIP file in an easily accessible location (i.e. your desktop).
Extract the AB Estimating Tool folder from the .ZIP file.
The file can be extracted in several ways:
- Open the .ZIP folder by double clicking the folder. Drag the AB Estimating Tool folder to its desired location.
- Right click on the .ZIP folder and select Extract All. Follow the prompt to save the AB Estimating Tool folder in the desired location.
- Use a thrid party application to extract and save the AB Estimating Tool folder in its desired location.
Once the AB Estimating Tool folder has been saved in the desired location, open this file.
Contained within this folder are two items - a resource folder and the AB Estimating Tool.EXE. These two items must remain in the same folder to work properly.
For your convenience create a shortcut to the AB Estimating Tool.EXE by right clicking on the file and select Create Shortcut. Place this shortcut in an easly accessible location.
Run the application by double clicking your new shortcut.

Installing on a Mac

Download the ABEstimating(Mac).ZIP file by clicking the button above.
Within your recent downloads you will notice a file called 'AB Estimating Tool.app.tar' that has been automatically extracted from the .ZIP file you downloaded.
Double click on the 'AB Estimating Tool.app.tar' file to unarchive this .TAR file.
Run the new application titled AB Estimating Tool.