Well, as most of you know we have been struggling with our yard and drainage problems for 2 years now! Ugh! Bob tried building a wall...that didn't work...it tumbled 3 times over the course of a year...Bob finally said..."I'm done, call the professionals!" haha! So I finally got some people out here last week for bids and it is crazy how you can ask for the same thing and get 3 completely different bids...
We were asking them to do several things:
1. Fix the drainage problem by building a swell (which is like a really really shallow ditch that redirects the water further down on our lawn instead of up against our house and down the hill!)
2. Put in a new retaining wall to help with our issue
3. Till, add top soil, and re-seed our entire yard.
The first guy brings in a bid at $2100, telling us that he will build a wing wall facing the northwest on our house along with a swell and add top soil and seed and hay our yard...the catch...we have to remove the back of the current wall ourselves unless he wants us to pay him more to do it...ouch!
The second guy brings in his bid at $1500, I was concerned that they forgot to include top soil for our ENTIRE yard and not just for the area being worked on. I called and made sure and they said...no, that is for everything...not only that...they are going to remove our wall for us, build us a NEW wall all together, put in the swell, fix our gutters to go directly into the ground, harley rake (fluffs the dirt) the yard with the top soil and hydroseed the entire yard (The seafoam green stuff you usually see on highway exits, etc)...I was like HOLY COW...there is no way the other guy could even come close to that even if i tried to bargain with him...so needless to say...we went with them...
The third guy brought in a bid of $6400!!!!! I was like, where do you think we live? Beverly Hills! DAMN!
7 comments:
your yard should be made of gold or diamonds for the 6400..
I SOOOO understand (we have the fence of shame in our neighborhood) I hate getting quotes cause you just don't know who to trust. Good luck and just think we both have "home hell homes!" Love ya guys!
Yeah, I emailed the $6400 guy back and said..."Thanks for the quote but that is not in our budget"...loser! LOL!
Hope the one you got comes through with all his promises. I presume he signed a contract with you...right? Can't wait to see the finished project. How long will it take to do all that? Did he give you a finish date?
Another "Oh Mom!" question...does the guy have his own liability and workman's comp insurance? "Can't help asking that question." :-)
Now, I am concerned that they will come at all...grrrrr! The guy was supposed to come yesterday to go over everthing...I called in the morning to find out what time he might be arriving and his wife said that their dump truck broke down and that it probably won't be until later in the afternoon...fine...around 7pm I gave up...no phone call nothing...it is now 10:15am on Tuesday and I still haven't heard from them...I guess I will have to call them and find out what is going on...I hate to be presumptuous but I hope this isn't how the rest of our wall fixing journey is going to be played out! Oy!
Ok, so I called and she says: "Ohhhh, i'm soooo sorry...after his dump truck broke down, everything just fell apart after that...he didn't get home until 8pm and I mentioned something to him about your yard and he said he completely forgot..." Ok, so why didn't you call me?! Hello! Oh well, we shall see what happens. He is allegedly coming by today.
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