Pricing Hedges!

[Mesterh]

I just price it the same as I do with trees, the amount of time I guess it will take by our hourly rate.

 

None of my expenses get any cheaper depending what I do, have been asked to do gardening work grass cutting weeding etc but at £70 ish an hour they soon decide there old gardener is good enough

 

Oh yeah and I always have a look at how wide the hedge is been caught out a few times on that one, and tbh prob still will in the future

[penfold]

i've just shafted myself big time with a laurel that turned out to be about 8 foot across and extremely limited access to the back of the hedge (hedge is next to a fence and has a load of rubbish piled up behind it:sneaky2:). Hedge to be reduced to about 6ft from about 10ft but i didn't look at the hedge properly as i couldn't get in to see it properly at the time of quoting so i put in a price that i now realise is totally stupid but i also needed the work:blushing:. popped into my local on way home today and being asked for my card by a local builder who lives in the village and wants some trees removing and some others pruning so fingers crossed that comes off.

[Gavin]

I just price it the same as I do with trees, the amount of time I guess it will take by our hourly rate.

 

None of my expenses get any cheaper depending what I do, have been asked to do gardening work grass cutting weeding etc but at £70 ish an hour they soon decide there old gardener is good enough

 

Oh yeah and I always have a look at how wide the hedge is been caught out a few times on that one, and tbh prob still will in the future

 

hedges , gardening , landscaping . the customer has phoned a tree surgeon !

dont work for any less than tree surgery money

the problem at the moment is that semi retired old guy drivin a volvo and trailor with his boot filled with tools bought from B&Q

the man of many trades but master of none. we need to all get our hands on him a give him a bloody good kicking

[Treewarrior]

Gardening work, like has been said before, they have called a professional Tree Surgeon!

 

My quote is £50.00 an hour/ £400 a day. They can take it or leave it.

 

But as Dean said, they get a job done properly and garden left as if you had not been in their garden.

 

If they cannot do it then they have to pay for it.

 

My only exception to this charge is when I get a pensioner who is obviously struggling financially and wiil:laugh1: do a value deal for them. I've found that by this I get a whole lot more pensioner work as they recommend you.

 

Never knowingly ripped anyone off in 4 years and proud of it!

[Johny Walker]

same rate for trees & hedges & thers more crap to clear up of hedges !!!!

[Frank]

tend to use more fuel with hedges, than saw work. Business overheads are still the same, although you dont need a second climber. So can make it slightly cheaper. But all my regular hedge clients know I wont leave until their bush is trimmed immaculatley, so dont mind paying slightly more than for "gardeners".

[tommer9]

. But all my female clients wont leave me alone until their bush is trimmed immaculatley, so dont mind paying slightly more than for "gardeners".

 

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[Frank]

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yeah thats right.

[dannyT]

Hedge trimming is a lot trickier and time consuming than people give credit for. Been asked to finish loads of monster hedges that wonnabe "gardners" had started but could'nt finnished.

 

Got to admit there not my favourite job but there a necessary evil which pays the bills

 

Price cautiously