Understand Commercial vs. Residential Bidding

because we couldn't get red in this unit we had to use a different block so it took some actual special techniques to incorporate the stripe into the retaining wall when we first did it it wasn't just a matter of slapping one color or painting it it was nothing like that but this is all the steps you go through when you're bidding a retaining wall right yeah yep yeah residential is a little easier than commercial a lot easier but if you can bid commercial you can bid residential oh yeah yeah so then at the end of the job you've also got to calculate in if you're going to tackle a really big project like this you've got to calculate in your daily cost for being on that job site because it's not a one and you're done you're going to you're going to need to make money on the individual segments because it's not unheard of for a GC to pull a segment away from you okay so we had one segment was excavation one another segment was Demolition another segment was retaining Wells another segment was site grading another segment was utility work I just happen to get awarded all of them but it doesn't mean you will we've many jobs we've been on where we're only reward awarded the retaining wall and we've only bid the retaining wall there's a lot of jobs where we look at and we go we don't want that work I don't want to do that many jobs so it's better to to learn when to back away than when to then to take everything because you're young and you want to get in on a job cuz that's the kinds that hurt you I believe yeah I should say so commercial can be easier to bid because you have all your numbers and sometimes the survey is done and you have the proposed and finished grade or proposed and and yeah finished grades um but and your wall numbers and everything but if you're you know residential you seem to get it's better to work with when you're working with a one customer and you have nobody else on your job site and and and uh feel like you got a little more room for things with a with a residential customer so absolutely there's it's a completely different way to go about bidding when you're bidding commercial you're nothing but a number they don't care who you are your accolades and qualifications don't matter and if you missed something on there and you didn't see that you're responsible for the whole site grading and all the black dirt on site and you're supposed to put the sign in on the road that was part and you missed it guess what you still won the bid and…