"Looks like 'one of those jobs'. Its obviously been neglected and ignored for years and client doesn't really want to spend any money on it now. Ideally would have been sprayed off about two months ago (way too late on the year now), leave over…"

"In that case ripping through the garden with a chain trencher might not go down too well."

"The latter Andrew"

"Couch grass and Grounbnd elder are very difficult to eradicate, I would spray it all off and leave it a while and then see if anything comes back in the spring, it may need repeated treatments.  The bark will fall onto the drive in time, I find…"

"Is there a presumption that gardeners will charge less for digging trenches and backfilling them?
Alternatively, is there an assumption that the electricians will not be so careful when digging around established plants?"

"Thank you everyone... I'm trying to find a machine to do the work - we'll see.
It seems the electricians were told by the owners not to bury the cables,,.,,, "the gardeners would do it" - Given all the rain, it could be that it will be quite quick…"

"Unless the electricians left at least a metre of slack cable on each run between fixtures there’s no point in digging trenches, because the cables won’t be long enough to push down into the trenches."

"I'm with honey badger on this, the electrician has not fulfilled his obligations regarding the regulations concerning the installation of cable outside. The client should ask him to do it correctly and if he refuses report him to the relevant…"

"We've been vat registered for the last 40 years, as others have noted, vat returns have to be submitted digitally. Go for normal 20% registration. As far as an accountant goes we view them as an essential business tool, a good one and not…"

"We are on the standard scheme which I think means you can reclaim everything but still charge 20%, there is another scheme I think where you charge less but can't reclaim...
 
I also think you have to have an accounting software package as you have…"

"The guys installing fibre optic cable for internet and phone just use a spade to make a slit across lawns to push it down into then stamp on the lawn around the slit to close it up.
One of my lady customers had a new gas supply installed, I thought…"

"Do you know any farmers?  Round here I have seen them use a mole plough behind tractors.  The plough is a vertical blade, at the bottom of which is a pointed steel cylinder.  Pipes/cables can be pulled behind the pointed steel cylinder.  They use…"