Final Grading, Seeding, and Feature Installation

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]