Price per square mt

[MAPLE LEAF]

Been offered to price up cutting grass/strimming leave grass and spraying hardstanding and grass on gas sites in my area, at the moment I only do residential and commercial sites.

As its utiliteys been asked to price per sq mt,can anyone give me a rough figure,do have my costings for work we do already is it better money doing this sort of work and if any tips on working in these areas as never done any of this sort of work before.

Thanks in advance.

[Burgess]

Go and have a look at it and work out a price. Work out the square metreage of the site. Add a little bit more on.

[Warners]

You'll be surprised how little cash per mtr it works out too...

[mowandgo]

Grass Cutting should be done on M3 ( cubed ) as some sites it grows thick and fast. I have priced jobs at this time of year nothing on it and by May I was emptying a 70 litre grass bag every 3 paces builders bags full of grass every where. Then the customer is like ' We used to have saddle back pigs on that lawn'. Then you have to explain grass has 3 dimensions all variable to my pricing. My point is the growth rate and thickness can only be measured into the season and this can catch you out with time and cuttings disposal.

[TGB]

What do you do with that amount of clippings? Just wondering.

[Ty Korrigan]

Doesn't the SPONS ladybird book of gardening give this info?

Although to me it was all just so much Arabic at the time...

Ty

[TGB]

Don't know about Arabic. But certainly in Swedish, French, Spanish, Maltese, Greek, Turkish, Italian and maybe more.

http://www.ladybirdflyawayhome.com/pages/foreign_lang.htm