How to Landscape a steep slope without Retaining walls

I'm taking you on to a project today we're thinking outside of the box saved a customer twenty thousand dollars you know we're gonna be transforming your yard aren't leaves right we are gonna save you tens of thousands of dollars instead of rebuilding this retaining wall we're gonna bring this slope in times people automatically fall into this belief that they have to reinstall what is already in place but oftentimes what's already there as a failed design or inadequate for their updated needs and their circumstances I'm here with the customer so now that we're done from where we started the concept we started with which is kind of unusual we didn't rebuild your retaining wall what we focused on was eliminating the need for a retaining wall but cutting your budget nearly half by doing so we feel like we killed two birds with one stone not only did we save this area of our home and the retaining wall but we also gained a backyard which is going to value to our home so we're very pleased with that we've got a good 20 feet here of extra backyard by about a hundred feet long which is master every time that you go out to view a project I want you to train yourself to automatically generate three unique options for that particular site the first will typically be just reinstalling what has already been done you're going to evaluate the existing design see its strengths look at its flaws and then give an estimate generate a quote to redo that project the second option is going to usually be a modification of the original design with improvements and with changes so all the weaknesses all of the flaws of that original design are going to be eliminated and the projects going to be updated that's option two the third option is going to be something completely unique it should have absolutely no reflection of what is already in place I want to say that's all for you guys very professional progress in two days yesterday they had just to shift and they worked my cork or doing well I think I think part of the success is our new operator we have by that's outrageous how crazy is a he's hit get him down and employees [Music] I'm loving Tim was saying he was out here for an hour and a half watching the ice them watch them constantly and I I'm the same you know I've had to take PTO of work this week because I've just been watching them work if you can [Music] [Applause] when you learn to look at a project and give three unique options you open the door to possibilities for yourself as a contractor and possibilities for the customer to be able to potentially afford a project that may otherwise be out of their reach the unfortunate truth is these customers purchased a home in the middle of winter the backyard was covered in snow and they had no idea of understanding what their backyard actually looked like when springtime came around what they found was they had a backyard filled with failing retaining walls that's where the three option rule came in we looked at the existing retaining walls and priced those out the project some came to over $40,000 when we came to the third option that's when we had the golden ticket the idea was instead of installing retaining walls at all we're going to eliminate every retaining wall on the site and instead we're gonna create gentle slopes we're also gonna import enough fill soil that we can give this customer a flat yard off from the back of their deck for the first time ever yeah because we want to we really want to do is we want to level this whole this whole backyard off and then as we come to the treeline we're gonna create a slope going down right to the toe of the tree line when you compare and contrast the cost on a price per square foot for an engineered retaining wall cuz the walls would have had to bend 7 to 8 feet tall engineering geogrid reinforcement in the soil permits through the city the cost would have been almost double of what I could do for just bringing in structural fill soil up and grading it over to the over the site and creating gentle hills down into their backyard instead of having a retaining wall that they would never see what they did get was a flat backyard a sliding Hill that we installed for their kids that they could safely go down and have a path going into the into the woods 21 extra thousand dollars in their pocket and they got to keep their house a win-win situation for the customer you're going to land more accounts that's all I want from each and every one of you status quo doesn't work nowadays it just doesn't work god bless take care [Music]