Landscape design
Duane Thilmony
Have a couple landscaping services come out to draw up a plan and bid,
then hire someone else to execute their plan? It just seems like it
would be so easy to do.
Dave Clark
We hired a landscape architect to draw up a plan, and we are slowly
implementing it ourselves. It did give us a good starting point, and he
certainly knew much more than we would have if we tried the whole thing
ourselves.
Most of the companies had a fee for the plan - whether you contracted with
them or not.
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Steve
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> JohnDoe wrote:
>> On Mon, 03 May 1999 21:10:17 -0500, Duane Thilmony
>> <Duane.T...@Thilmony.com> wrote:
>> >Has anyone ever done this?:
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>> >Have a couple landscaping services come out to draw up a plan and bid,
>> >then hire someone else to execute their plan? It just seems like it
>> >would be so easy to do.
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>> buy the plans and execute it yourself, I saved thousands doing it
>> myself.
I guess thats fine to take them elsewhere if you pay for the plans.
We have called a landscaper to draw-up our plans but we have been up-front
with him that we want to do the work ourself.
His wife mentioned that sometimes he will go and draw the plans for someone or
some business then they take those plans to some other landscaper and have them
do the work. I got the impression that this seemed to irritate him.
It seems to me that if you like what a landscaper has drawn up
for you then he/she has the knowledge, experience, and has a good feel for your
landscaping tastes. So why not hire him/her unless their bid is extremely high
or you plan to do the work yourself.
Musial News
draw the plans and people always use us to get a nice plan and have a
cheaper company build it.
I always include some "problems" so if they build it to the plan, things
don't work out to well. If they sign with us, I know what to change when
I'm doing the working drawings...
Just be sure what you're getting into when you try to scam someone. He who
laughs last laughs hardest sometimes.
Sanjay Nasta
if a professional is good you will get a little bit from him on the plans,
but their future input is probably worth a lot more.
When my dad was building houses, people would come and sit down with him and
get a few ideas from him. Ideas that would invariably save them hundreds of
dollars. Then they would take them to a cheaper builder. What they didn't
realize that other ideas that he usually produced when building a house
would have increased their house value by thousands of dollars (I know it
did in the house he is building for us).
I'd do it the fair way and pay them for the plan.
Sanjay Nasta
www.builtonline.com
The Homebuilder's Resource
Duane Thilmony <Duane.T...@Thilmony.com> wrote in message
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with a design service? Could you share your experience?
To me a landscape architect designs and let you execute the plan
yourself or subcontract the work to a landscaper, an architect charges
a design fee which I understand can run into the thousands.
There are also landscapers who would do design, charge you a fee for
the design, but apply the fee towards the work and materials. I've
seen quotes around $700-$2000 for a simple plan.
Musial News
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Duane Thilmony wrote in message <372E5709...@Thilmony.com>...
>Has anyone ever done this?:>
>Have a couple landscaping services come out to draw up a plan and bid,
>then hire someone else to execute their plan? It just seems like it
>would be so easy to do.
That you fathead is scamming someone. Nowhere does he mention paying for
any service -- just the opposite. He wants something for nothing. I was
warning what can happen when that is done. You have proven your signiture
beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Steve
p.s. since we have a copywrite on all plans, the customer would be the ones
in for the massive lawsuit (as has already happened)
JohnDoe wrote in message <3732aacc...@news.monmouth.com>...
>who said anything about scamming anyone?
>I said pay for someone to draw up plans.
>you could be setting yourself up for a massive lawsuit.
>fortunately I've been lucky enough never to have to run into scum like
>you.
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