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I charge for normal maintainace £14 per hr £28 for two men
For the large contracts that i have like the ones you mentioned I would charge approx £50 per hour for the two men .
So 42 homes would take 2 men approx half a day cost £200 but if theres a large grassed area like all new estates have i would adda bit extra for waste.
I include in my price 2 lawn treatments a year and all hard paved areas to be kept weed free using a suitable weedkiller.
hope this helps with this guide i nearly always undercut other quotes and make a healthy profit.
Give me a shout if you need anything else
I was gonna go up with a per house figure (i.e. £10-12 per house or £400-504). You reckon someone else would go in well below with a per hour quote like at £200-300?
Once I've seen it I'll have more of an idea. There may well be hedges, strimming, shrub beds, etc too. Will get back to you later. May well combine hourly + job prices to get better reflection of the outlay for the job. That make sense?
Where we live the new estates contain approx 40 so houses and the lawns are about 4 by 4 with a small lawned area on the communal car park all shrubed areas are normally woodchipped so it takes next to no time to maintain.
I would Meet up with the director of the estate to find out how much the previous gardeners charged and i also ask why they got rid of them.