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Problem-Solve for Large Retaining Wall Project

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An average Day During the Spring Rush landscaping

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The owner discusses a large retaining wall project where the client had a budget of $28,500. He quickly realized that replacing the existing timber retaining walls (over 1,100 sq ft, double-tiered) for that budget was not feasible. Instead, he worked with the client to find a more creative solution that fit her budget while still addressing the underlying problem, without necessarily rebuilding the walls exactly as they were.

Goal: Find a creative solution for a large retaining wall project within a client's budget.

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next one we have a $28,500 budget established by the customer on this project and she's got all these Timber retaining walls in layers that we can't re we can't do it for that budget so we came up with a solution a little more creative solution that fits her first off apologize my camera cut out while we were filming that last job site we were talking about a budget of $28,500 and if you walked into that backyard you would quickly realize that her retaining walls could not be replaced at for $28,500 we've got over 1,00 Square ft of Timber retaining wheels that have to be ripped out then you've got a dig for geogrid and then you got to build all new retaining walls we're talking about a project that would take at least two to three weeks maybe even a month with a full-time crew excavators dump trucks running not possible to rebuild it but it is possible to complete her project you got to understand the customer has two things they have a problem and they have a budget and when you need what you need to do is establish what their budget is so I don't I don't go out and do these jobs where I just start throwing numbers at the board I don't do that anymore that is long gone if a customer is not willing to share with me their budget I can't come up with a solution that matches their budget and I let them know that very frankly nine out of 10 customers will share with me whatever budget number they have in their mind which gets them Further Along on their job site and then I design a solution that they can live with not only with their budget but what's going to happen on their site that's what I did for Jean I took her budget so that's what I did

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