The HOA screwed my CUSTOMER. #1

all right you guys before we get too deep into today's video at the end of it we're gonna break down this five thousand dollar job we're gonna go over what the material costs are the labor costs are all of the equipment what that costs us and show you some real world numbers on this job just because i think you guys may want to see that good morning you guys are early you're already ready i love it well before we head out to the job we gotta turn the radio down and go get fuel in the mini loader let's get on that right now [Music] thank you [Music] we're gonna break this five thousand dollar job down into a three-part mini series where we cover all of the expenses associated with doing a project like this including the material costs at the end of the job we're going to calculate exactly how many hours we spent on the project and then we're going to also show you every piece of equipment that we used on the job what that equipment costs and then break down our overhead hopefully by the time we're done with this series you guys will have a little better understanding on how a five thousand dollar job what it actually really costs to do it because we will get this job done in one day but those numbers can be fairly misleading and we want to just clear up any miss and get straight to what it actually costs and what it actually takes to do a project that you're about to see all right let's go see what we got cooking god smells like forest out here doesn't it can't smell yeah too bad for you smells good out here yeah it does smell good doesn't it kind of smells like fall right yeah that's right so yeah this is why we couldn't use a skid steer we didn't want to tear all this up oh i didn't want to tear this grass up right here so this is our path in and out huh okay maybe that way but that's the town home association's property up to a certain point all right you guys i'm gonna actually jump in here because i think this is a pretty major point that we just glossed over and sometimes the challenges on your job are going to be the advantage to you actually being able to land the job what i'm talking about is if you have one or two other contractors that come out and they see all these challenges and issues before them they may not even want to tackle the project but when you come out and you see all the challenges and issues that lie before you if you can come up with a creative solution that overcomes those obstacles a lot of times you'll be able to land a project in fact we've landed so many projects tim and i because we actually take the time to address all of the issues ahead of landing the job we'll actually discuss the different uh past the bit different paths the different ways that we can do a job with the customer and come up with a creative solution that meets the customer's needs and as soon as you guys start to do that the customer realizes that you're really trying to invest into their project to do the best possible job okay right here you're uh we just moved the air conditioner and uh sitting over there but you can see that this has sunk pretty drastically so we're going to move some of this rock build this back up with some soil get it pitching you know maybe do like a little swale see if you look at the black right there that's how much this whole thing has settled down hasn't it oh that whole i bet that whole blue part of that hose was buried at one point maybe right there because look out look how high that was and maybe that hose wasn't buried but that's where the dirt was that's really great okay so we got to pop all these well you can see that it really shot down fast behind look at behind that blue line where they got the black yeah that's what i'm saying that black represents it but i bet that's the line where the great could could and should come up to is like there right we can't go you want to stay down about six inches eight inches yep so i'm gonna get some boulders for just right here okay and i think we can just come across and kind of end it right in here we can chop some of this down there is an electric line back here but we can take some of this down right here and push it up too if we wanted to get creative but then we'd be creating a swale right here i'm gonna see where joey just was walking yeah that's gotta come up a little bit yeah i can see i was just gonna say man that whole thing looks the whole drip line of the house you can just see where it but i need some fabric in boulder it just looks like dirt where did all the dirt go so if it was a washout you'd see but you'd see you'd see dirt you'd see something like where it was washing right so he said this was built in 2014 which makes me wonder if what if they backfilled in the wintertime they just yeah it just settled it's just settled because normally you think you'd see some kind of washout washout no that's so they they probably backfilled in the winter they didn't compact right or it's big frost chunks yep that's because that's about how much settlement you will see this is a great point this is about how much sediment you'll see if it's not compacted and they backfill in the winter around here right here that that's a good 12 to 16 inches i don't know how much how much you think that is joey how much settlement you think that is i think you're probably right pretty close pretty captioning not available that's a lot of rock we gotta get out we gotta get all this out right yeah so what i was thinking is we're gonna just move some of these hostas right here what if we were just uh to throw it throw it down below and that way later you can come in and scoop it we can throw it back up and rake it out what if i just came in right here and just scoop scooped it right up where do you want to put it where do you want me to put it we're trying to minimize turf damage so put i mean i can just put it down there down here put it on the end we'll be driving over it to build the wall or we can build the wall from behind here yeah we can we can keep the hostas there for now i'm not looking i can't lift this by myself the buddy system get it out of here we have a mini loader that would just come in and go blue pick that up move it over but yeah you guys work on that for a while use that rock to pry that up because that makes a lot more sense than saving your back your fingers your nose picking for sure keep going why don't you say it to us i'm just saying work harder not smarter tim remember and always lift with the twisting jerking motion that's what i just did earlier and my back feels really good killed it oh there you go there you go yeah no two other guys just standing here just grab it and go he's like well maybe if you guys would shut up and work [Music] so [Music] there's a number of factors that go into the initial estimate when we're first looking at a project the easiest is the material cost what is that going to range but there's two other factors that oftentimes get overlooked or miscalculated one of them that really impacts guys and they don't know what until the end of the year is overhead not calculating your overhead on a daily basis can really bite a guy in the butt and not correctly guesstimating your labor hours on a project can also hurt a guy but there's a way around both of these and it's called job costing and what you want to do we're actually going to job cost this at the end of this series but a quick synopsis of what job costing is is you get into a job and you keep track of every single expense on that project and one of the most important expenses to keep a close watch on is how long it takes to do that job because however long it takes to do that job is going to be your estimate for the next time you do something even slightly similar to what you're doing when you did the job costing every single project should be job costed because the more you do job costing the more accurate your numbers are and the less you be guessing on your estimates job costing is one of those things that i can't recommend enough [Music] [Applause] [Music] whoa whoa whoa dirt monkey you didn't get all that rock out of there that's a sloppy job okay well technically what we left behind was the dirty rock we don't want to put this back in so we shaved off all of the clean rocks and this will get reused but look how much the grades have settled here just look at this that is i mean that from here down now we don't we're not going to go back up to there and the reason we're not going to go back up to that point is because we want everything to flow this way and this way so technically what we wanted to do is come right to there and then to come down to here and this rock right here this dirty rock what we're going to do with that is that it can just get re-incorporated right back in structural fill soils there's nothing going to be wrong with reusing some of that but we've shaved off all the stuff that we can reuse and this isn't worth the bother of what do you think this is a two wheel barrel full it's not worth the bother trying to clean it and to throw it back in with the dirty with the clean rock and it'll just make it all look dirty and then we got organic matter sifted into the top so there's no reason to reuse that that's what gets sacrificed and left behind if you look right here look at you can see where all the water has come from around here and has migrated right down to the house right to this point and that's followed through here yeah that's actually the original grade and that hump is actually there because that's the area that hasn't settled so all this settled and the water came right down there and this way so that's not settled that's original all right we've been here about now we're right joey we've got all the clean rocks separated and over there we've got one bucket of dirty nasty rock which i'm not gonna mix in with the clean rock we've got the grades exposed tim is on his way to grab a load of fill soil we're gonna start contouring the ground with the soil and then he's gonna run and grab a load of boulders and then it's gonna free us up to allow us to do the grading while he's running material so we should have this whole thing wrapped up here just a matter of how fast how long it takes tim should i dump the soil on the road here do you want to do it that way or should we try to back all the way up well i could back all the way up i'm just saying is it would it be better to dump it on the road or no all right well i'll come out we'll get a game plan look at that retaining wall i've never seen a retaining wall built like that what the flip what is up with that and what's with that chunk in them [Music] dude that retaining well i've never seen a retaining wall that's the worst retaining wall i think i've ever seen built okay so due diligence i think we're gonna dump it in the street and half it in because this this customer is worried about tearing up his grass he's trying to prep his house for sale but before we dump in the street we're gonna pick the worst spot in the street and take some pictures of the street so that when we're done we don't get hit with a bill to fix this crap hole right that's a shitty street that's a crappy street that's cool you think they meant to do that that's kind of artistic if they meant to do that i don't get it i think that's like artistic you think that's purposeful i kind of feel like how could it settle that much yeah but look at do you think this is purposeful right here then and this that not joining the two walls together in a simple 45 i think that was meant to be that way hmm there's no way that that was settled it's an artistic wall it's an artistic wall all right is that some artistic stuff right there too tim it's just because the tree's growing right out of that one yeah that's what happens when the tree grows up so this is a great point here with no sarcasm involved as these tree roots grow down they push out and then the wall expands out but for a wall this tall and unless there's a ton of geography in here this is all you know too close together too small a block to hold up for who knows could have been i don't know how long it was never know all right you guys think that that schwoop was intentional or do you think that's just what the so this is what we're talking about with the settlement around the foundation no schwoops though no no weird swoops so other side artistic or are an accident tim thinks it was meant to be all right joey's got the area looking pretty sharp that will end up we don't have to worry too much about getting all the little rocks out because it's structural fill so we'll reuse them i think we got to go move a set of forks up in the front of the yard tim's got the dirt here okay so we'll get uh he's figuring out exactly where we're gonna dump it all right here we go camera's yours the ability to get into and out of this job while doing minimal turf damage helped us to land this project meaning that the next competition that came in to do this might have calculated using a skid loader and every time a skid loader would turn or move on this turf would basically rip and tear up this grass also a skid loader would have less maneuverability because it would be stuck to dedicated turf mats or a dedicated safety rope by being able to use a mini loader or specialty piece of equipment like this it allows us to do the job faster which allows us to pass the savings on to the customer which helps us to land more projects but here's the antithesis to that you might not have a specialty piece of equipment that can do what you need to do but that doesn't mean you don't have access to it you can rent one or you can lease one and if you do go down that path you need to account for the daily rental fee or the daily lease fee of that piece of equipment while it's on your project and directly expense that out of the overall cost of the job or initially add that into your estimate so there's a lot of factors that have to go into place before you can start throwing out typical numbers but when you have a little bit of an edge like that it does help you to land more jobs get your load out oh i'll get my load off we go a little bit more down with it okay tim go ahead get your load off all right not really making a difference is it no it doesn't it doesn't make that much of a difference i just don't wanna don't let me nick the driver okay then you're gonna have to speed some of this up you can't go any further forward without hitting that driveway look he's already look at look at see that trailer yanked all that grass out yeah that sucked i'll turn around come up and back in this way maybe that'll work huh oh yeah that'll work you can go all the way uh out to the street and turn around and come in don't know how i'm going to turn around otherwise no we're back here to turn around all right over the next three days we're going to detail break down this project and take you along to show you what the work is and at the end of this three-part mini series we're going to go over all of the numbers what the equipment cost to take us to do this job how many labor hours the material costs what our overhead was and what our profits were so that you new guys coming into the industry can have a better idea of exactly how to dial your own numbers in so if you like information like this hit that subscribe button that's all we got for you today god bless go get em and we will see you tomorrow