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What mower? Grounds condition, cut & collect, waste taken away or composted on-site, cut & drop, how many mowers 1 off or regular 12, 16, 18, 21 or 30 mows etc.??
100 cm ride on(cost £3500 6 months ago), good ground condition, grass collected but disposed on site. Regular weekly mows. Thanks graeme
machine has grass collector
estimated time.1 -1.5 hour, as small area may have to be done with small Honda machine)
I think any "costs" supplied in this Post could be academic not knowing your local market.
What is most important, I suggest, is understanding "your" productivity and then combining with your own internal cost rates + your profit etc...
Otherwise any figure given would be purely speculative / localised / specific?
Well Peter you know how long you will take so you must know your hourly charge out rate? Assuming it isn't a commercial contract and that they want a price per M then your price is your price.
Don't forget that you will also have to factor in time spent on strimming and an additional 10 / 20 minutes to load / unload etc. so factor in approx. 2 hours per visit as an average X your hourly rate per man on-site.
Personally, I also add a slight premuim on larger gardens which goes towards the machinary replacement fund (but I do also have this factored in my hourly charge out rate also).
If this was a client of mine, I would package it as 30 visits per year (but word accordingly that this may be less subject to weather / growing conditions) or even as a 21 visits per year and charge £n per month for 12 months.
My £n charge may be higher or lower than yours! I would however be more than happy to share my prices in the Hub rather than open forum.
Thanks very much fellas
i primarily offer lawn treatments but I'm being asked to come up with regular mowing quotes. No strimming. Just a mow. I,m also trying to work in machine depreciation ...so that I'm not working for free. That is difficult to calculate without knowing how much work i can get at what price in the future.... In this way we will all come to a different calculation i,m guessing?
If I'm not a pro member can i not get access to the hub?
Any useful calculations or figures, please email me at peterwhit25@yahoo.com
kind regards