My first job.

[sicnj]

two years ago http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c238/sicnj/DSCF1009.jpg

[sicnj]

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c238/sicnj/DSCF1012.jpg

[sicnj]

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c238/sicnj/DSCF1011.jpg

[AAXteriors]

Nice job man. Did you install everything or just the wall? What block is that?

[sicnj]

just the wall econo garden wall by techno block.

[TXNSLighting]

that looks bad...j/k looks pretty good!

[Grassbuster]

Nice Job...

[deere615]

Nice work.

[Southern Signature]

Not bad if i say so myself, very nice!

[sicnj]

thanks everybody

[kandklandscape]

looks good

techno bothers me all the time, sends me cds like everymonth, might give them a try if there are any dealers around, if not i will get a dealership

[JimLewis]

Nice job.

I tell you what - that's a whole lot nicer looking that my first retaining wall job. You don't even want to see that photo. Thankfully, we've gotten much better over the years.

[LindblomRJ]

It looks good.

[sicnj]

thanks, I had no clue how to price it, had to ask another scaper. she has givin me a bunch of work since then.

[jaybow]

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c238/sicnj/DSCF1012.jpg

Nice job! This will be my second year in the buisness and I hope to get some jibs like this.How did you charge for the block install per hour per brick or what?

[sicnj]

per sq ft. $45

[Serrano_Landscaping]

It looks like $3,150 for that wall.

Pretty good job man, Looks really nice

[teejet]

I did a wall like that (my first job) the blocks were slightly larger. It was 45 ft. long by 4 ft. for $2300 After I was done they told me the other estimate was for 16,000.

[sicnj]

3000 for the wall

[Serrano_Landscaping]

3000 for the wall

I was pretty close. Nice job once again

[sicnj]

i should have charged a little more didn't have the confidence at that time

[JimLewis]

I am not quite sure how you guys arrive at the $3000.00 price. Unless there's something I am not seeing here, that job would take 2 of my installers about a day and a half. At our labor rate, that would be about $1800 for labor. It looks like there are just about 100 blocks there. At $5.50 per block, that's $550.00. Maybe 2 yards of gravel at the most, that's $80. So I'd be charging about $2430.00 for that job. And we are typically more expensive than most of our competition. A lot of contractors would charge only $2000 or so for that job.

How long did it take you to do this job and how many workers?

[John Zaprala]

Nice job man... I have to agree to disagree with the pricing. We are always the highest or close to it when we bid and I'd come in under $3K??? Why did you choose to price by the sq ft? And for $3K why not use a better product? I think the job's a great first project, but I think for the price, a nicer block would be nice...with caps

[John Zaprala]

By first job, I'm assuming that means first hardscape and not first landscape in general right?

[sicnj]

Yes that was my First time Hardscaping. actually i helped another landscaper one day on a hardscpae so i would know what i was doing. This is not my favorite block at all. I wish i could have used caps on it.