Four Inch or Six

Same trench, same crew, same day. One line is 4 inch, one is 6. One markup on both means two margins you never picked.

Video coming

The sheets are ready now. The episode lands here the day it's up.

What this one covers

  1. 1

    The water: what the roof sends you, what each pipe carries, and why the wall of the pipe matters more than its diameter.

  2. 2

    The real bill of materials, sourced, and the trench: the 6 inch costs $444 more and saves 11 yards of digging.

  3. 3

    The flip: by hand the 6 inch wins, with a machine the two 4-inch lines win.

The sheets

This episode hasn't been recorded yet. The sheets go up here the same day it does.

Prices are mine. Yours are different. The math is the same.

Who made this

Ledge is software for landscape design-build. These sheets are the thinking underneath it.

Every number on these sheets is the kind Ledge carries for you on a real job: the burdened hour, the man-hours a price buys, what the crew actually did against it. The first ten shops run Ledge free; we make money only on payments. If you want to see it on your own jobs, there's one person to talk to.