interesting little read

[Steve Bullman]

stumbled upon this by chance earlier whilst doing a google search

 

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=178599

[Tom D]

"Don't know where you are in the country but I had a garden clearance, a cherry tree seriously chopped back, removed a fir tree, removed a clematis and supplied and installed a new fence - we are in london, it was a day's work and cost £240. They also took away all the rubbish - it was a lot of work so I think your quote is quite a lot HTH"

[Paul Barton]

Blimey - another extract from there:

 

"A few weeks ago we paid £650 (inc VAT) for a 50m lleyandii hedge trimming, 2 laburnum trees, 1 massive lleyandii and 3 scots pine trunks (branchless) removing - our guy took all the waste away and left the garden looking tidier than when he turned up - took him all day, with 5 staff."

[Tommy_B]

I got a feeling that this forum is going to slightly differ in opinion about how much that job is worth!!!!

 

What did they expect £40???

[MasterBlaster]

(needs about 6ft cutting out of the top)

 

 

Don't they all, LOL!

[Gregsie]

Last month someone I know had a couple of 'tradesmen' remove four 20ft conifers (with a bowsaw) and remove all the rubbish for £100 cash.

 

These guy's even made a 30 mile round trip in there flatbed to do the job.

 

My mate 'discovered' them 'cos they wanted to put an ad in his Post Office (the usual garden maintenance, flat roofs, jobbing building, I can do anything (badly) type).

 

As my mate who is tighter than two layers of paint pointed out he could not even hire a skip to do the job himself for that money and in his eyes was a deal to good to turn down. Which is fair enough except when they stuff up and have no PLI and I doub't if the conifers ever made it back out of the Peak District.

[Mesterh]

sycamore's are notoriously weak trunked trees, so if they're not trimmed properly they can split down the trunk - I've had a chat with my TS....can you tell?

 

 

LOL class.

[Andy Collins]

gives a valuable insight into the publics expectations of pricing, and what we're up against!!

[Steve Bullman]

well, bear in mind that was a forum for tight wads

[skyhuck]

well, bear in mind that was a forum for tight wads

 

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!