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[lclandscapes]

Erich,

Where are the numbers bro??????

[Scaper-S2k]

I had a few people say to wait until they figured out what they were going to charge. Maybe they aren't going to though.

[Jack D.]

The fact is that Jack D. lowballed and and won the bid.

Pedro and Miguel will be at the jobsite tomorrow morning at 9:00 am.

[Dr.Bizzaro]

Then got the dough and left town...



State and Federal taxes unpaid......




My Man! Get it while you can....

[Scott]

just scribbling #'s down, I come up with about an estimate for 68k. There where a few minor assumuptions I had to make; sf needed for fabric and some plant sizes, type of mulch but thats minor.

I'll have to retract my first estimate, a couple of me #'s are wrong.

53k and I'll even fertilize everything,, once!

[Scott]

bump bump bump

[Scaper-S2k]

Drawing says that general contractor is going to leave planting areas level for the scapers. Going by the drawing scale, this is what you find that you need.

102 boxwoods (3 gal size)
9 spirea (3 gal size)
2 maiden grass (why only 2? Who knows)
20 skyrocket junipers (5'-6' size)
9 bradford pears (2" caliper)


The drawing states that all landscape beds need to be edged with steel edging. 1100 feet of steel edging needed. You figure 100 yards of topsoil for filling in areas, and raising beds if needed.

Sod? You measure it out as 29 pallets, but haven't figured in the fudge factor yet.

You figure 20 yards of mulch, and the drawing clearly states the need for weed fabric under all mulch (even though you hate it).

Man, sorry I didn't get back to this sooner. I kinda forgot about it.

Okay, here are some additional bids I got from e-mails or PM's.

#1. $40,895
#2. $13,260
#3. $21,500
#4. $28,000
#5. $12,000 (roughly)
#6. $46,500 (roughly)
#7. $53,000
#8. $19,985


Wow, look at that difference!! Lowest 2 averaged $12,630. Highest 2 averaged $49,750. Total average is $29,393.



My bid:

Total materials came to around $14,000.

I would only put 4 guys on this job.

1 day for smoothing topsoil and make landscape beds.
1 day for planting all material.
1 day to install all edging.
2 days to install sod and cleanup property.
1 day to mulch and water everything.


Now I'm fairly confident that the job could be done in 5 days with 4 guys, but if it runs into the 6th day, I accounted for it. And for installs like this, there's no such thing as 1/2 a day. Because if 4 guys only work there 4 hours on the last day, by the time they get back to the shop, it's 5 hours. What can they do in the remaining 3 hours? Not much, so I round to full days.

So I figure 4 guys and 6 days. 192 man hours.



Materials $14,000, but I will use my markup % and get $19,880.

Labor (including overhead, etc) is $75 per man hour. 192*$75 = $14,400

Total comes to $34,280.



My exact bid was $34,475 because I like my bids to end in $475!

[Scott]

#1. $40,895
#2. $13,260
#3. $21,500
#4. $28,000
#5. $12,000 (roughly)
#6. $46,500 (roughly)
#7. $53,000
#8. $19,985


My bid:

Total materials came to around $14,000.

I would only put 4 guys on this job.

1 day for smoothing topsoil and make landscape beds.
1 day for planting all material.
1 day to install all edging.
2 days to install sod and cleanup property.
1 day to mulch and water everything.


Now I'm fairly confident that the job could be done in 5 days with 4 guys, but if it runs into the 6th day, I accounted for it. And for installs like this, there's no such thing as 1/2 a day. Because if 4 guys only work there 4 hours on the last day, by the time they get back to the shop, it's 5 hours. What can they do in the remaining 3 hours? Not much, so I round to full days.

So I figure 4 guys and 6 days. 192 man hours.



Materials $14,000, but I will use my markup % and get $19,880.

Labor (including overhead, etc) is $75 per man hour. 192*$75 = $14,400

Total comes to $34,280.



My exact bid was $34,475 because I like my bids to end in $475!

yawl a bunch of lowballers mucking up the industry,

SCRUBS!