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  Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt February 23, 2010 at 11:12pm

  Just to clarify: its the property on the left, not the out buildings in the field with the sheep! Rough area from boundary to boundary 100 x 80m.
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  Lawncare-4u.co.uk February 23, 2010 at 11:27pm

  12 @ £175 maybe 2 people- you plus labourer for 1 day....
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  Lawncare-4u.co.uk February 23, 2010 at 11:30pm

  sorry 9 mths @ fortnightly visits = 18 visits / 0r 20 due to 2 weekly =
  
  20x£175
  
  3 monthly @ £175. so basically approx 23 visits @ £175
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  Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt February 23, 2010 at 11:50pm

  Sounds reasonable. I've already put price in - will wait and see what others come up with before I say how much though!
  
  Robin Ainsworth said:

  sorry 9 mths @ fortnightly visits = 18 visits / 0r 20 due to 2 weekly =
  
  20x£175
  
  3 monthly @ £175. so basically approx 23 visits @ £175
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  Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt February 23, 2010 at 11:57pm

  It's approx 1 acre. Ride on wont cut in wet. Will be a dry weather job. Fuel supplied.
  
  Pro Gard said:

  What does the ground to be mowed mesure in percentadge of an acre. Fuel for ride on suplied?
  
  Make of ride on..... makes a big differance, some wont cut in wet.
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  Dan Frazer Gardening February 24, 2010 at 8:31am

  I do a similar sized site (2 acres) and it take a day per week. There will be a lot of leaf clearance in autumn. Do they have much in the way of flower beds?
  
  I found it on google maps (grid ref's), nice location!
  
  Off to quote for a much larger site later on today (5x larger!). Fingers crossed.
  
  PS 1 acre takes me about 2 hours to mow with my 21" walk behind including emptying etc.
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  Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt February 24, 2010 at 10:09pm

  Not many flower beds. We're actually doing some redesigning and replanning of some of the space to cut down on the maintenance a bit. Mostly just grass and hedge cutting. I reckoned it'd take 2 of us 3 hours to take care of most of it. Yeah, the leaves are a big deal! I've forgotten already what the specifics of the quote were. £120 per visit with 20 fortnightly visits April to December which includes leaf clearing. Then once a month for 3 months at same cost. Average it out between 12 months.
  
  Hope you got on alright with the big job today. Look to be a good one?
  
  Dan Frazer Gardening said:

  I do a similar sized site (2 acres) and it take a day per week. There will be a lot of leaf clearance in autumn. Do they have much in the way of flower beds?
  
  I found it on google maps (grid ref's), nice location!
  
  Off to quote for a much larger site later on today (5x larger!). Fingers crossed.
  
  PS 1 acre takes me about 2 hours to mow with my 21" walk behind including emptying etc.
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  Dan Frazer Gardening February 25, 2010 at 2:02pm

  Turned out he just wanted the grass cut around the house, but still a nice wee grass cut, maybe an hour plus unloading plus waste away (although may be able to find a spot on site for grass as I go), quoted £40 which he accepted. It's on the way home from another couple of jobs I have so easy to administer.
  
  I hope you're not taking waste away too for that price by the way, especially if there will be big hedge cutting jobs to do!
  
  
  Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt said:

  Not many flower beds. We're actually doing some redesigning and replanning of some of the space to cut down on the maintenance a bit. Mostly just grass and hedge cutting. I reckoned it'd take 2 of us 3 hours to take care of most of it. Yeah, the leaves are a big deal! I've forgotten already what the specifics of the quote were. £120 per visit with 20 fortnightly visits April to December which includes leaf clearing. Then once a month for 3 months at same cost. Average it out between 12 months.
  
  Hope you got on alright with the big job today. Look to be a good one?
  
  Dan Frazer Gardening said:

  I do a similar sized site (2 acres) and it take a day per week. There will be a lot of leaf clearance in autumn. Do they have much in the way of flower beds?
  
  I found it on google maps (grid ref's), nice location!
  
  Off to quote for a much larger site later on today (5x larger!). Fingers crossed.
  
  PS 1 acre takes me about 2 hours to mow with my 21" walk behind including emptying etc.
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  Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt February 25, 2010 at 9:49pm

  Haha. No way. All waste disposed on site! It's in the middle of nowhere - if you can't find somewhere to have a fire or dump grass clippings out there there's something wrong!
  
  Glad you got a nice easy one there Dan. Good man.
  
  Dan Frazer Gardening said:

  Turned out he just wanted the grass cut around the house, but still a nice wee grass cut, maybe an hour plus unloading plus waste away (although may be able to find a spot on site for grass as I go), quoted £40 which he accepted. It's on the way home from another couple of jobs I have so easy to administer.
  
  I hope you're not taking waste away too for that price by the way, especially if there will be big hedge cutting jobs to do!
  
  
  Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt said:

  Not many flower beds. We're actually doing some redesigning and replanning of some of the space to cut down on the maintenance a bit. Mostly just grass and hedge cutting. I reckoned it'd take 2 of us 3 hours to take care of most of it. Yeah, the leaves are a big deal! I've forgotten already what the specifics of the quote were. £120 per visit with 20 fortnightly visits April to December which includes leaf clearing. Then once a month for 3 months at same cost. Average it out between 12 months.
  
  Hope you got on alright with the big job today. Look to be a good one?
  
  Dan Frazer Gardening said:

  I do a similar sized site (2 acres) and it take a day per week. There will be a lot of leaf clearance in autumn. Do they have much in the way of flower beds?
  
  I found it on google maps (grid ref's), nice location!
  
  Off to quote for a much larger site later on today (5x larger!). Fingers crossed.
  
  PS 1 acre takes me about 2 hours to mow with my 21" walk behind including emptying etc.