How to do Landscaping/Demolition Meeting with a Potential Customer

sorry oh and we are looking at a house in Edina to be removed the first thing I'm looking at that I see is a very steep driveway right here going up probably have a 24 foot change in elevation or so I'm guessing just from my initial thoughts what do you think Daria it's 20 to 22 okay I've looked at it for about three seconds I can be off by two feet so with that being said we're gonna be removing this house and we're gonna be removing the tree in the middle and then putting in probably a tuck under garage so you don't have such a steep elevation change now my question for you Dario is I know you want me to bid removing the house you're gonna want me bid digging the new house or that at a later date let's do two separate bids okay okay perfect so but what that'll help me understand too is if we got an overall concept that we're gonna be rolling with this thing I can help you establish grades as we're demoing removing the house we're taking out driveways and getting this this hill cut down I've done this for over 20 years so there's a lot a lot of little things that I can come into the equation with you on and go hey Dario let's do this or let's do that and that'll help you save money down the road so let's go in and check check this house out let's get Dario an estimate to knock this bad boy over no we do recycle the beams so if they're steel they do get recycled all the furniture is out great what is the installation like in the ceiling you can see through stuff in the kitchen perfect to measure so Dario is gonna be the general contractor on this and we're gonna help him walk through the demo on ways that he can do things on his own installation mercury switches got have to be removed vermiculite has to be removed and that's something that you can do but this has batt insulation which is perfect but just that can stay in place your appliances yep I mean those are recyclable so if you okay I was gonna say they look good but if you're just tossing them recycle them you'll get some money back out of them so here's an interesting fact at least here in Minnesota Dario with this bestest in the house get a load of this there's two people that can remove it a licensed abatement contractor the most qualified or the homeowner the least qualified okay okay so you be surprised they test when they test for asbestos they test like the caulk in the windows they test the glue under the floor like I seen this is this type of well this is this linoleum yeah this is so they would test that all those little things is where they find it when we go to remove it we gotta have the fluorescent bulbs up those are things that you can do so when I'll give you a checklist of everything that you can do to save some money on this demo okay this place is a real brick fireplace I'm gonna guess it goes all the way to the floor to the basement okay so there's gonna be at least a little brick just in that fireplace which is no big deal but it's something that I have to account for did you say these beams are all steel under here darling okay but they could be they could just be wood wrapped and now I'm seeing a second fireplace that one's probably not pure brick or is it see what we have here okay very compartmentalized each one of these walls we'll be adding into my how much how many dumpsters I have was this what I look for looking through these houses how many interior walls anything unusual span creat floors as in like this room if there was a span creep floor just the furnace room okay there's the chimney from the top floor 2,700 square feet 2500 square feet or so you son okay so now we're at the we're gonna do a quick bid a quick walk around on the outside of the house and then Daria what I'll do is I'm gonna sit down in my car for a little bit and just calc how many how much it'll take to remove the house the driveway this retaining I which is built in a way I've never actually seen before I've just never seen a music Timbers it's just I love it then we have a timber retaining wall that we've got to get rid of that'll be a bit of a challenge at least in Minnesota disposing of railroad ties is a lot of regulation on that but what we're gonna do is we're going to remove the house and then we're gonna level the lot now pool table level but just we're gonna take the hill down try to create a flat plat tall where that tree is up front and then take it down another notch so then Dario can actually start to envision and set elevations we want to put the cart in front of the horse and try to set something up without knowing for sure so remove the house empty the canvas and then let a new picture be painted best way to put it right