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When I did grass cutting we averaged 25 lawns a day working as a two man team, so im sure you would get at least 10 done in a day.
Thanks for your help, chris.
obviously, it greatly depends on how close they all are to each other and until you get started, you won't know. I'd make a guess at 2 per hour to start with and that will allow you some travelling time plus a cup of tea at each location.
also the growing season can vary so much and mid summer you can have a drought and the grass dos not need cutting and should not treat lawns are your clients going to be happy paying when no work is done that month? one year you might cut for 9 months another might be 6 months the other way it might be that wet you Carnot get near the lawn for a month then you have 100 clients wanting there grass cut and fed yesterday
I don't see any point in worrying about how many customers you can fit in a day, until you have a customer base to work with. We have lawns that take 20 mins and some that take 4 hours.
As you are confident enough to start as a business, you must have an idea how long it takes you to cut with the equipment you have, so work the price from there and not by how many you can cram in a day.
Paul
I think i would be more worried about how money i can earn in a day or week to get your company off the ground and then later on look at your spread sheet on different lawns and sizes treatments etc. main thing is the weather last spring was a late start.
£15 for 25m2?
Thanks for the feed back. Rich, the spreadsheets just to help me work out my prices. Useless sitting worrying about money if i dont know how much to charge.
Never having owned a business i dont have a clue if 10 customers or 200 customers a week is the norm.
yeah robbie. is this too expensive? it would really be 15 per week for a lawn care package. 3 treatments, scarify, aeration hard surface dpt weeding etc all included.
To give you an idea - I am charging near top in my area, I aim for about 10p per meter with a minimum charge of £10-15 - although I use my judgement on priceing so if its say, 200sqm but its all flat and easy access I may bid at 15 -17.50 if I want the job - ie its next door to another job so no travel time.
I find that most £10 lawns come in at 40-80 square meters and take 2-5 mins to cut, another 2-5 to edge and tidy up and then done.
I think £15 for 25sqm is excessive and you would probabbly not win many.
I would sell lawn care as a seperate add on - its a luxuary service, if you package it you risk devaluing it and also cant make the maximum mark up on it.
Their are alot of useful pointers on pricing in the HUB - worth reading - cant realy discuss these on the open forum(public).
TO help you think about it - I use a Pro46 to cut most of the time, and find I do about 100sqm in 4-6 mins including grass emptying, And would charge either 10 if its less than a mile from my previous stop or £15 is it is not - this includes removal of waste. If the lawn is treated that is done as a seperate visit at a seperate time on a dedicated lawn care trip and charged acordingly.
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