Siôn Hughes

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Looking to start a garden maintenance business.

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Max alam posted a discussion

Invoicing / Quoting

does anyone find themselves spending money on an invoicing and qouting app? do some of you use tradify to manage bookings and schedule?whats the best way to manage workflow when you get busy in the season ?

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Paul Errington replied to Daniel Gillings @ DC inc's discussion Rumble strips in lawn!

"Try using a Turf Teq Power Rake to smooth it out. It will mill off the high spots and work the spoil into the low bits."

Dougie replied to Dougie's discussion Looking for a new roller machine

"I think i could get away with a four wheel mower for yhe time being no one has asked for stripes nonone seems to do the stripes here i thought it would be something i would add"

Peter sellers replied to Dougie's discussion Looking for a new roller machine

"Dealers will always to sell the machine they have the largest margin in. We are lucky ours tell the truth!"

PGM replied to Dougie's discussion Looking for a new roller machine

"For our domestic round days, of which the majority are small to medium, we carry a 4 wheeled Stihl 4 series mower and a Hayter Pro 41. We use the Hayter on the fancier lawns and it leaves a beautiful finish but is only any good in dry weather. The…"

Dougie replied to Dougie's discussion Looking for a new roller machine

"Just seen your post there about your weibang a lot of bad reviews on the weibang my dealer recommends this as the best machines in the market "

Dougie replied to Dougie's discussion Looking for a new roller machine

"I did have the honda hrx537 hy i thought it was to big for the small lawns thought it was a great machine apart from it being to big and sold it was thinking of getting the smaller one 476"

Dougie replied to Dougie's discussion Looking for a new roller machine

"Thanks i will have a look see if i can find it"

Dougie replied to Dougie's discussion Looking for a new roller machine

"Thanks for the great advice i always thought evey wanted stripes"

Neil Darby replied to Dougie's discussion Looking for a new roller machine

"Dougie, whatever you buy DON'T get the Weibang. I have told my story about it enough times here before."

Sam Bainbridge replied to Rob's discussion Help with pricing graveyards

"I'm up north as far as you can go before you hit Scotland £180 per day is a terrible rate. I do £200 per day at 1 regular customers the rest is much more it's fine for £200 if you aren't running machines all day and you are at the same job all day…"

PAUL replied to Rob's discussion Mowers mowers mowers

"My advice is find a mower you like and buy more than one.
As a solo operator who only cuts lawns I have 3 mowers (the same model) on the go at any one time. (i also have 3 new ones in storage as the model has been discontinued)
Two mowers are…"

Sam Bainbridge replied to Rob's discussion Help with pricing graveyards

"Pretty simple.for grass cutting I try and average £60hr so if you know how many hours it takes just times it by 60, if your happy with less you can knock a bit off.
Easiest way is work out your total costs for the year divide it by the hours you do…"

Peter sellers replied to Dougie's discussion Looking for a new roller machine

"Ian, is right. As for weibang read the post "mowers mowers mowers" you are warned!
You won't get a better 4 wheeler than honda hrx537 hy"

Vic 575 replied to Rob's discussion Help with pricing graveyards

" At £180 per day you are hugely under charging. Using hand mowers on this job is very inefficient and really very hard work.
I have a Toro 4875 zero turn [48 inch] and a Stiga Park 700 WX [4 wheel drive]. They are both mulching mowers, so no…"