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Posted by Steve Gentry-Brown on January 5, 2015 at 5:18pm in Groundscare

Hi All,

I run my own Landscaping company and we mostly carry out Hard Landscaping projects,

We have recently been ask to price a commercial grounds maintenance and wondered if any could give me any advice on what others charge?

Thanks

Steve

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    Seth Burgess January 5, 2015 at 6:41pm

    Other people charge what is required to make a profit that they are happy with from the job. Work out your overheads add on your desired profit and there you go. In the BOG people are more likely to be open with their answers.

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    • Steve Gentry-Brown > Seth Burgess January 5, 2015 at 7:28pm

      Thanks Seth, i have been doing that, just thought i would ask.

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    Gary RK January 5, 2015 at 7:33pm

    Try this

  • Roy Parker January 5, 2015 at 7:35pm

    i cut a 5 acre site with a iseki 48 inch diesel mower and that takes around 5 hours 

  • Colin Hunt January 5, 2015 at 7:37pm

    Seth, for what it's worth, get yourself into maintenance as well as hard landscaping and don't be scared to take on the odd small garden.  They are worth their weight in gold.  There are so many times on project jobs, where someone is a spare part for a couple of hours - just send them off to cut some grass and it's 30 quid of free money.

    We are now completely maintenance based and the business virtually runs itself.

    • Gavin Gray > Colin Hunt March 11, 2015 at 8:29am
      The extra work you can gain from these jobs is endless
  • Simply Business March 11, 2015 at 9:08am

    Hi Steve,

    Congrats on potentially landing some extra work. It's likely that you're already covered, but remember if you're adding additional services to your business, you might want to alert your insurer just in case?

    Last thing you'd want happening is a a claimable incident happening whilst doing the maintenance work and finding out you're not covered :)

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