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Site Assessment and Problem Identification

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The HOA screwed my CUSTOMER. #1

What happens here

The team proceeds to scout the perimeter of the house to identify the primary problem areas and plan their access route. They specifically note a sloped grassy area used as an access path, which they aim to preserve to avoid damaging the client's lawn. They discover a section of the house foundation where significant ground settlement has occurred, causing the existing rock and gravel to sink away from the house, potentially leading to drainage issues. The presenter explains that this challenge, and their solution to it, was a key factor in winning the job. They observe the exposed foundation and the depth of the settlement, discussing how this area needs to be built back up and properly graded.

Goal: Understand the scope of work and identify key challenges.

Tools and materials

  • Mini Loader Carbon 33T — Used as a reference for maneuverability during access planning

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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…

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