Steve D Valentine and Wendy filled oversized planters the hard way, spending $40 per planter on concrete blocks instead of just buying delivered dirt for $20 a yard. He jokes about returning the blocks and the forklift they rented.
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What's up with those bricks? So I'm usually a genius when it comes to numbers on houses, and Wendy's usually a genius when it comes to the numbers on contracting. But when it comes to landscaping, neither one of us have a freaking clue. So we've got these big planters that are 7ft by 2ft up in muns, and we're like, okay, well, we're going to get these blocks so we can build kind of a false bottom so we don't have to put as much dirt in, which is like $40 per planter. And then I asked him, like, how much did we pay per ton of dirt or yard of dirt? And it's a whole other story. It's $20 a yard of dirt, which is probably will fill one to those planters. And the dirt's being delivered on Friday. So I'm like, I should just use more dirt. It would be cheaper and way hell of a lot less labor at this point in time. So the block is going back. I love returning block. It's really easy. You take them in one by one. No, you don't. They put it on with a forklift. You tard.