Jonathan Davidson

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Jonathan Davidson

County Garden Maintenance

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Business name

Jon Davidson Garden Maintenance

County

Garden Maintenance

Postcode

Maintenance

Primary telephone number:

07732 787932

About you and your business

Garden & Landscape Maintenance

Jon Davidson Garden Maintenance has been operating a professional and friendly all year round service to domestic and commercial customers across Salisbury & South Wiltshire for the past 10 years.

Skills

Grass cutting, Garden Maintenance, Low-level Hedge cutting, Weeding and border control, Pruning, Leaf clearance, Garden Clearances, Lawn treatments & Turfing

Business category

Maintenance, Consultant, Lawn Care, Other, Commercial, Domestic

Business Size (based on Turnover)

£0-£50k

Where did you hear about Landscape Juice

United Kingdom

Billybop replied to Paul foster's discussion Business for sale

"the way I look at it is that those introductions are Leads, rather than Sales, there is a difference, the previous gardener has been paid for the work they have done,there is still on going hard work left to do rather than scooping up some kind of…"

Ben Carter replied to Joe taylor's discussion Winning and approaching new contracts and deals

"Andy
Your right about the not getting paid and just becoming a credit service. I used to be a manager for a few of the national GM compainies and getting the money from firms was the hardest part of the job. 60 days often used to get streched to…"

Ted Waldron replied to Joe taylor's discussion Winning and approaching new contracts and deals

"Thanks Vic,
I currently have a very good gardening round in N.Wilts but may be relocating further west and want to diversify a bit so it's interesting to know the sort of charges for that Lind of work.
I appreciate you sharing.
Ted"

Vic 575 replied to Joe taylor's discussion Winning and approaching new contracts and deals

"Commercial grass cutting is between £60 and £80 p/h.
Occasionally a little more.
But that is only time actually on site. It doesn’t include travel, time taken at the fuel station, loading and unloading at each end of the day or nipping back to…"

Vic 575 replied to Joe taylor's discussion Winning and approaching new contracts and deals

"I don’t know what £5m of PL costs, but my £1m of PL which includes sub-contractor cover as well costs me £68 per year. I reckon if Chatsworth and the local council think that £1m is enough then it probably is."

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Christopher Rocca replied to Joe taylor's discussion Winning and approaching new contracts and deals

"With great respect 5mil of pl is quite cheap do you might as well have then you would be eligible for other contracts and quite frankly if your not turning over at 100 k pa then it's not worth doing
you do learn through mistakes and many years you…"

Graham Taylor replied to Nigel Rawlins's discussion Starting from scratch....

"... just avoid anything thats been used commercially and "ex council" as one Ebayer regularly used to say. ... though you do get the odd exception I know. "

Billybop replied to Nigel Rawlins's discussion Starting from scratch....

"All good points, however I must say I have picked up some fantastic second hand bargains on equipment, depends what it is really"

Billybop replied to Paul foster's discussion Business for sale

"The Goodwill element that is sold has very little value at the time, in fact I would consider it a bit rude to my customers to sell their details to somebody else, who I have no idea whether they are capable or not, these days there are things like…"

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Andrew Betteridge replied to Joe taylor's discussion Winning and approaching new contracts and deals

"I don’t disagree with that, but just be wary that if you are operating as a small business which collects payment upon completion of the job you will need a different mindset and cash reserves to move into a market where customers assume they can…"

Ted Waldron replied to Joe taylor's discussion Winning and approaching new contracts and deals

"Out of interest Vic, roughly in what ball park are you charging?

Cheers

Ted"

Andrew holt replied to Andrew holt's discussion Viking Mb4rtp

"Thanks Paul, followed your advice, fantastic piece of kit, just done 2 mowers in no time, cheers"

Andrew holt replied to Andrew holt's discussion Viking Mb4rtp

"Did this thanks Graham, got it all out, cheers "

Vic 575 replied to Joe taylor's discussion Winning and approaching new contracts and deals

"Actually, you don’t need five million public liability insurance and you don’t need to be VAT registered to do commercial work. I operate with one million PL and I am not VAT registered.
Chatsworth Estate usually requires £5m PL as a minimum, but…"

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Christopher Rocca replied to Joe taylor's discussion Winning and approaching new contracts and deals

"Further to my previous msg
wuth great respect to Andrew regarding commercial work
don't be out of by his experience there is good work out there but don't be to ambitious build up slowly and get used to your clients and get to know the accounts…"

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Andrew Betteridge replied to Joe taylor's discussion Winning and approaching new contracts and deals

"The carvery pub is now permanently closed, the lad who did the regular grounds maintenance charged £300 to go once a fortnight throughout the year, he maintained the beer garden, outdoor play area and car park with big hedges all around them, it was…"