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Estimate Material and Delivery Costs

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How to Measure Estimate and Install Sod and Turf

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To accurately bid a sod project, break down all costs. First, determine the material cost of the sod itself from your supplier (e.g., $1.50 per square yard). Next, calculate the delivery cost. If a semi-truck delivers the sod for a flat fee (e.g., $200 for 177 square yards), divide that fee by the total square yards to find the delivery cost per square yard ($200 / 177 sq yds = $1.12 per square yard). Add the material cost and delivery cost per square yard to get your total material and transportation expense (e.g., $1.50 + $1.12 = $2.62 per square yard).

Goal: Calculate the total cost of sod material and its delivery per square yard

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  • Calculator — Calculating costs per square yard
  • Computer Apple iMac — Displaying calculations and additional information
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that is the cost of your material okay so here's something we have to calculate we have let's go through the breakdown of how much this side is going to cost you to install the side cost you $1.50 per square yard and we want to figure out how much per square yard it actually costs you the owner to be installing this side but now you've got to remember it costs you something to get the side there if you have to have 177 you have to install 177 Square square yards of sod well guess what that's quite a few pallet that's um 177 / 3 or divided by 75 should be about three I'm sorry 2.36 pallets of sod maybe you don't have a truck big enough to do it you got to have a semi bring it out to you if they're going to charge you in this case $200 to install that s okay what you're going to figure into your formula let's say they charge you literally $200 just to bring it out the semi you take 177 id200 that's going to give you 88 cents per square yard did I do that right I don't think I did that right hold on you take $200 and divide by how many square yard iide I apologize that cost you $112 per square yard so your initial your purchase price is $1.50 a150 it costs you a112 to have it delivered you add those two numbers up a bck 50 $262 is your expense is your expense right now per square yard okay are you still with me the final component component is actually installing the side and you've got to figure out how many square yard can I install per hour and if it cost me $20 per hour and I can install let's use a realistic production rate a labor rate how many square yards do you think one of your guys can inst no I don't know what you guys think but I figure that one of my guys by himself can put 50 square yards in on this very specific job we have 177 square yards so we take 17 77 and

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