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How to Bid, Charge, Estimate and Install Mulch

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The video begins by setting the stage for mulch installation in previously weeded garden beds surrounding a house. The speaker explains that no weed barrier fabric will be installed, a decision made with the client to manage costs, which means thorough weeding is paramount. He discusses the overall cost effectiveness of his approach, mentioning a project quote of $375 for the entire job, with only $23.70 in material costs for loose mulch.

Goal: Understand the project scope, material needs, and cost implications, including the decision regarding weed barrier.

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mulch today we're going to talk about fast economical ways that you can install mulch I shot a video on how to weed a garden and how to price that out I'm back back at the exact same site and today what we're going to be doing is installing Mulch and I want to cover a couple of the different options now for me I'm going to personally be installing this mulch the F the easy way for me to install the mulch would be for me to oh before I get into that let me show you what I got to do I got to install mulch down in this in this bed here and all through the side of the the house and then get it uh into all of these areas and uh tidy it up okay you'll notice two things there is no fabric down now realistically there should be fabric down and I gave the customer an option once we weeded this bed we discovered there was no Fabric and I had already given them a price for the mulch the price to mulch this bed was $375 that I quoted them that is to install mulch along here and in the back and sides without fabric I gave them an option A lot of you guys are going to come into this I hear you you make the mistake of finding no Fabric and feeling like you have to install fabric because you didn't know if fabric was there because it was so weedy before you couldn't tell whether there's Fabric or not and you find there's no Fabric and now you're putting Fabric in but you hadn't quoted the fabric in into your original price that's not your fault that's that's the mistake is taking on the fact that unknown circumstances are automatically your fault stop that that's not your fault after I discovered there was no fabric I made a simple phone call and said you don't have Fabric in place I can put fabric down for you but it will cost extra it will cost x amount of dollars and this

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