Just a rough idea please

[button1803]

Got a job in a garden to look at, just a bit of weeding and clearing, no tree work... regular customer, cut the customers hedge and done tree work in the past but they would like me to give a quote for a bit of weeding and clearing.

 

do i go for ''by the hour'' or a quote upfront?

 

Some gardeners i know charge £10 an hour... is that the case?

 

No saws are required just some green fingers...

 

just wondering what the average hourly rate is currentley going at the moment.

 

[Tomhjnr]

If your skilled and worth your salt then £20+vat

[button1803]

tar mate... got over 5 years experince with garden work... but shes put faith and trust in us to do the job as we impressed last time, and work is work though i guess.

[Tom2020]

£20+vat Bit much.

 

£10-£15 depending on the work

[Hodge]

If your skilled and worth your salt then £20+vat

 

Chances are he ain't vat Reg, if he is then the customer may go elsewhere as they can get someone who ain't vat Reg.

[rovers90]

I charge £12 per hour. Other gardeners I spoke to last year charged £15 to £20 per hour per person plus £1 per bag of waste they took away or £5 for a builders dumpy bag!

 

Recently went to see a new client who wanted me to cut front lawn, turn borders over, clear gutters!!!!, cut rear lawn 150ft by 30ft, cut hedges, do rear borders and take all rubbish away for £7 per hour!!! Needless to say I did not accept her as a client!

[Len Brennan]

£15-17 an hour round here. Any less and you're not making a living once you've paid your costs. Winds me up when people expect you to do it for £5 an hour like the old boy down the road used to.

[Tom D]

10ph is a wage, ie where you work for someone else who pays for your tools, ppe etc, he will charge the client more obviously. If you are self employed you want at least 20ph.

 

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[Nick B]

you will be lucky to get more than £15 pmh for just gardening work

most people in this area are between £10 & £15 per man hour

[greengrafter]

trouble is your competing against people who just want to potter around in someone's garden for a bit of bear money and people don't want to pay alot.

 

I found it was always better to give them a price as people get put off by an hourly rate.

 

Perfect example one lady I went to see, I said we charge £20 an hr per man she nearly fainted!!! so I gave her a price instead which she was more than happy with......It turned out for that job we turned over £40 per man hr instead of £20.