Moving Dirt

Four driveways, one estimate. 3.3 hours on one, 43.8 on another, and every number was wrong in the same direction, including the good ones.

Video coming

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

What this one covers

  1. 1

    The same patio on four driveways, and why the gate matters more than the clay.

  2. 2

    The line that isn't on any of the four estimates, the truck, which costs more than the digging on the day everything goes right.

  3. 3

    Why nobody can give you a standard rate for the ground under this town, and the four habits that replace it.

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.