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Pricing/growing garden maintenance business - think I've started wrong!

Hi - long time lurker, first time poster here. Really appreciate anyone who takes the time to reply. 

This year I set up my own business (sole trader) offering garden maintenance - weeding, mowing, clearing borders, seasonal pruning - the usual. I hav

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Retaining wall prices specifically sleeper retaining walls

Hi there

I am pricing quite a lot of retaining wall jobs and as they are quite a big part of landscaping i am trying to tune my meterage prices.

 

Can anyone help me with their meterage rates for the construction of sleeper timber retaining walls?  I

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Pricing hedge work

Folks I dont normally do a lot of headge work but have a customer with many meters needing late summer tidy trim, not into old wood at all. I have the meterage and height, if anyone can gibe me an indication of how they price jobs like this I would a

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General tidy up price

Hi guys,I am just wondering how you go about pricing a general tidy up of a garden? Do you have a minimum price per hour and calculate how many hours the job will take you or what?I recently heard about someone being quoted £800 for a general tidy up

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Mowing Prices in Northern Ireland

Hi everyoneI know there have been a lot of threads on here already about pricing but I can't seem to find anything specific to Northern Ireland? I'm just starting out at the minute and have invested quite a lot of money (for me anyway) in this and wa

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Pricing by the job versus pricing by the hour

The video below is from the US but I've found it interesting to listen the the chap talking about how he prices up a job.

Pricing up jobs - whether that's by the job, by the day or by the hour - has always been a highly contentious subject.

Much of w

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Sense check on hedge cutting price

I put in a price recently for some hedge cutting but haven't heard back so I'm assuming I haven't got the work. If possible I'd appreciate a sense check on my pricing. I'll not say yet what I put in as I'd like to hear back first. This is my first fu

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Starting a new business - advice needed please!

Hi All,

I am a head gardener at a private estate and have over 20 years of gardening experience.  I am in the process of starting up my own gardening business and would really like some advice..

• What is the average hourly rate?  I was thinking of £17.5

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Help with pricing a hedge trim

Hello all. I am still new to providing maintenance and I'm grappling with pricing of even the smallest of jobs. Is there anyone who could give me clues to cost for trimming a hedge and a smallish tree right beside it?

I haven't talked directly to the

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Understanding the cost of landscaping

What does landscaping cost?

If you are planning to have your garden landscaped in the near future you will need to do your homework on the potential costs involved.

If you are looking for an industry standard charge-out rate or a set cost per metre o

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Following up on quotes

I've been fortunate enough to be getting lots of quotes to do recently but I'm not sure if I'm making the most out of them. Just hoping for some advice on how to approach the quoting side of things.

I am getting pretty good at pricing and have good ra

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Dealing with rejected quotes

Hi all, started my business up last year,things have been going OK but. I still find quoting for landscaping a tricky task,but know this will improve with time.

I've just had a quote rejected for a big patio project and was told the contractor they're

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Contract price

Hi guys.

 

By way of comparison, what would your price be for this size of contract.  The large areas will be cut  initially with their own ride-on and we will cut/strim the smaller areas with our own power/pedestrian mowers and strimmers.  There are n

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Flexible approach to Creating Landscapes

We are making some very positive progress with the new Creating Landscapes trade show and I'm thrilled that two more exhibitors have signed up this week.

 

Whilst Creating Landscapes is very much a traditional exhibition in many ways - companies with

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pricing quotes / commercial contracts

i have 4 sites to quote for commercial blocks of private flats.

 

i already work for the co asking me to quote and have done for 2 years or so.

 

its simple garden maintenance :  litter, strim, mowing, weed spray paths, vacum car-park etc etc - you know

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Do you provide quotes or estimates?

Hi 

I set up a landscape gardening business in August 2010.  I undertake both landscape construction and tidy up work.  I have found that when pricing for tidy up work its easy to provide a fixed quotation.  

For landscaping work I would like to offer

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pricing rates

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Busy fools

are you busy busy busy ?   working, working and working?  paying bills / quoting , improving your web-site , servicing machinary and cleaning vehicles maybe ?

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Pricing rates on your website

http://www.gardenerputney.co.uk/cost_prices_landscape_gardening_london.html

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Pricing

It is always difficult to know whether to put prices on a website, I believe it is a good idea as you immediately define your market and the people who contact you have an expectation of what they are likely to pay for your goods or services. I have

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