Things you gotta see to believe

[SCL]

The other day I visited a customer on our to do list to find out his choice of retaining wall color and decided to drive by a house that I gave an estimate to the year before. House had about 15' to the lot line and about 10' of drop. About 60' long. Shot the guy a pretty fair price on a quality retaining wall as he also needed a lawn and two other small walls. They whined about their cost overruns etc... so I new I'd never get it. On my drive by I almost LMAO. They were stacking landscape timbers (not 6x6, the 3x3.5 jobs) and had them up almost the full 8'. No deadmen nothing that I could see. Where there's a will there's a cheap pocketbook and a dangerous wall.

[Shack]

There will be dead men when the Wall Comes Tumbling Down.

[steveair]

LOL shack.

and, 'to each his own'. They probably think its the 'best dam looking wall in town'

steveair

[paul]

We need to see a picture of it!

[greens1]

Penny wise and dollar foolish.

Jim L

[Guido]

They'll save a penny now, and spend twice as much when that P.O.S. Needs torn down and done right!

They'll learn, hopefully sooner than later, but they'll learn!

[joshua]

that might be better than this, i drew up a design for a landscape, retaining wall evrything, i listed all the plants the size of the beds, everything, that should be on a design, i gave it to the homeowner to look over, this was about a month ago, after time and time again trying to get ahold of them i go to give a bid on a seed job in the area, geuss what it was behind the house i gave the bid for the landscape, the homeowners were doing it them selfs, and using my desidn to do it with. anyway i can get money for the design. since they did use it.

[paul]

Did you copyright the design? If not you might be out of luck!

[kris]

joshua... did you have a agreement upfront...so much $$$ for the design??? more detail please...

[bkworks]

I would suggest in the future to not give the design to them unless they pay. I have drawn up the design, but if they don't sign the contract or pay for my time...good luck (but not with my plan).

[kris]

We have a 2 hour consultation if they don't wnat to pay for a design(around $60.00 per hour)...what they get for that is advice and small freehand drwing (not to scale)....designs start at $600.00 and go up from there.