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Price it on your day rate plus cost of waste removal cheers ken
There’s a difference between being competitive and buying work.
The are occasions when I end up feeling like I have bought work.
Andy
Hi Colin, day rate plus a good profit! It's hard work as you say.
Last time I took Ivy off a house I sharpened a small digging spade with a fairly flat blade, it worked a treat scraping it off the wall in big sheets.
Day rate and rubbish charges.Watch out for wasps and maybe consider wearing a dust mask ivy dust horrible.
Give them a price. If you do day rate and other houses need it doing, what if they think it's only half a days work and you think its 1 1/2. If you give them a price each they know what the final cost will be and also it's harder for them to compare and make incorrect assumptions. Do you know who are you competing against?
Ivy is ruddy horrible stuff, dust mask and long sleeves required. What sort of materials are you removing it from. Stonework is much harder going than render. Also how mature is it? I have seen a few old stone walls collapse from ivy damage.
they are all brick and mortar, the ivy is covering the diffrent shades of brick on the extentions, i believe that they were all done at the same time by the previouse land owner who sold them of seperate non mre than five years ago.
Remember, birds will still be nesting.
ive done two site visits no birds nesting
I have found that severing the plant stems at the base and then leaving it for a couple of weeks makes the job a bit easier. It's the sort of work I would rather do,in winter if possible rather than a hot summers day!
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