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Identify Core Job Components

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How to charge for Landscaping, Retaining walls, Patios and Outdoor Construction

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The first fundamental step in accurate bidding is to recognize that every project, regardless of its size or nature, can be broken down into three essential financial components: Materials, Labor, and Overhead. Understanding these distinct categories is crucial for transparent and profitable pricing. This approach applies to various projects such as sod installation, paver patios, grading, mulching, plantings, demolition, land clearing, tree work, and turf care.

Goal: Deconstruct project costs into fundamental categories.

Tools and materials

  • Mulch N/A — Example of project material
  • Pavers N/A — Example of project material
  • Plantings N/A — Example of project material
  • Sod N/A — Example of project material

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new tools, and making it pay for itself while making you a living. Well, the first thing you got to do is start to understand how to charge for these jobs. So, today we're going to be covering how to charge for retaining walls. And maybe this will help some of you guys out. Before we dive into the video, I need to know from you. Do you even like concepts like this? If you do, let me know in the comments down below or give me a big thumbs up and I'll start to make more of these for you guys. So, without wasting any more time, let's get into it. You know, one of the big problems that contractors face is they get to the end of the year and they have no money left over for themselves, but they don't know where it went. And that's because of overhead. And I promise you, if you give me 25 minutes, I'm going to show you how to allocate every single day on every single job to account for your overhead. What this is going to hopefully do is give you more profits at the end of the year and maybe make your life just a little bit easier. I'm just giving you a warning today, guys. We get really technical. It may not be as fun as some of my other videos, but I really want this to help you guys out. Let me know if it does. All right, guys. I got a text message just came in. All right, read me that text message out loud. First tree job of the season. I totally underqued. I'm working 8 hours today cutting down a tree for about $70 profit. I keep making the same mistakes over and over and over and over. Okay. So, the reason I wanted you to read that is because it happens to the best of us. And today, what we're going to be talking about is bidding and estimating. And Tim and I are going to teach you guys and walk you through a few different jobs we're doing on how to bid retaining walls. Now, the principles that we're going to be taking and teaching you today will be the same for almost any project. Now, about once every 2 weeks or so, Tim and I, even though we can bid these things separately, we take time to go together to test each other's numbers. Is that about right? Yeah. Helps me refine my skills, counterbalance them against somebody else's estimates. So, yeah. It makes you think outside the box a little bit. Absolutely. And so, we're going to take you guys with us. Hopefully, this helps you guys with your own bidding and estimating skills. And if you guys need more than what you get from today's video, go over to Dirt Monkey University. We've got a nine-part bidding…

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