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Old 06-28-2006, 11:35 AM
Raj Venugopal Raj Venugopal is offline
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Here's another perspective re pricing.

Experience will be your teacher.

We're still learning, but a few under-priced jobs were the best teachers. Did one job last year where the complexity matched the budget, and we all walked away happy.

If you're using multi-sized stone (concrete) in a random stack your time and effort will be greater than one size laid row by row. While a flag wall may cost less for materials per ff, the labour/time may be much higher.

Plus, it's all in the basework. I blew our budget out of the water this weekend for a retaining wall/steps by getting squirrely about some clay in a hill and taking out 15 yards to have a clean slate.

When in doubt, take it out. Just make sure you bill for it.
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