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Less than a days work I would say for 1 person, so £360 sounds high. Although £40 for diisposal sounds low, depending on how much you are taking off. If say going to 6ft that will be quite a bit to take away.
We would be £450 plus vat inc disposal.
I agree that your disposal fee is way too low. I charge £25 a bulk bag...that much hedge would fill about 5 or 6 maybe more bags
I don't think a customer would be happy to pay £150 to dispose of the cuttings!! If its soft stuff and you can run the mower over it, you'll get it down drastically............ you might even be able to blow it back under the hedge if there's room....... it must add nutrients to the soil under the hedge and if its soft growth, will go down to almost nothing. I've done some huge laurel hedges and not needed to take a single thing away. I'd be happy with £200 for the day but then people tellme I under price work.
We can get rid of 1 ton for £40 at a composting place that is 9 miles away.
I think we will go for £360 all in.
We've got a good shredder that reduces the volume.
According to the checkatrade website, hedge trimming is £90 per hour on average. I'm not sure that is correct. Seems far to high for me.
Not sure where they get their information from although they say the average price per hour for a gardener is £35, which seems spot on.
Reckontheir figure are way off..... In a fairly affluent area in Bedfordshire............... you won't get £35 an hour...... £25 more realist. As for hedgecutting £90 an hour!!!!
£25 per hour for a professional gardener in 2025 is so underpriced it's ridiculous in my opinion.
I only work 4 days a week. Don't leave until just gone 9 and home for about 4-4.30 each day and earn more in those 4 days than if you worked 6 longer days a week charging £25 per hour. We're based in the North West in an average area
I'm not saying that to make myself sound good, I'm not even that amazing a gardener to be honest, a good one and reliable, but nothing special. Business is all domestic, a mix of grass cutting and full maintenance so not even any amazing paying commercial work. It's just priced properly and people pay it. Not everyone will and we don't get every quote we go to, but enough will to fill the diary
If you're running a proper, professional business, I believe you have to be earning considerably more than £25 in an hour.
Agree totally, £25 after tax and NI is £18.75 then take off your fixed and variable costs which I know will be different for everyone equates to not alot! Charging these rates just enforces the customers perception of a low skilled trade and places barriers to us in the trade of charging realistic rates. If everyone charged a realistic rate the customers would have no choice but to pay it.
Up here in Cumbria I'm the highest charging gardener at £25hr
Completely understand what your saying I do that rate for customers that have me 12 months of the year and bulk money up doing contracts and 1 off jobs that range between £40/£75 per hour I find these 2 ways work very well together I'm 12yrs in business. Hedges usually pay £450 a day and grass cutting similar but gotta be working I usually do 22 gardens in an 8hr day I've invested in the best machines which has definitely paid off I can keep going whatever the weather with the etesia mowers they don't leave as nice a finish as a roller but it gets the job done
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