advice on how to price on spraying please

[10 Bears]

I have my pa1/pa6 ticket.........but don't know what I would charge per day or just as a job

 

Didn't you cover how to calculate this in your ticket?

 

I have my PAs too and we certainly did cover this, in fact it was a significant part of the assessment.

 

Why dont you just apply the same methods you were taught on your training?

[richy_B]

It's loads of ground to cover as it has to be stem injected I think!

 

Knotweed is a different business to regular spraying in my opinion. Spending a day spraying it might make minimal difference. You need a proper treatment program. Stem injection is vastly more effective but it's it labour intensive and really horrible work. A hundred square metres could take you all day stem injecting because of conditions and the whole time you are crawling about in scrub.

 

As I mentioned earlier, work out your own price and give it a go. Charge £250 a job (day) including chemical and assume you can cover 1000 square metres in a day. You'll work it out in a few jobs whether you can go up or down from there.

Edited April 7, 2016 by richy_B

[kerryp]

I was shown everything but was not told how to price i did ask the question but was told it's a mind field as I said doing private jobs first see how things go from there I'l give a day rate price and ad on the chemicals and cheers Richy

[richy_B]

They won't cover pricing in a training course. I assume what he meant was you know roughly what square metres you can cover in a set time. Just get out there and see how you go. If you under price a few days it won't bankrupt you. You have to get it wrong a few times before you get it right.

[10 Bears]

They won't cover pricing in a training course

 

Well, I have to disagree with this point on the grounds that my experience was different - but perhaps its the way you look at the problem of working out the price.

 

So, I was taught how to calculate pace over distance, flow rate, application rate, how to calibrate my sprayer and the effects of swath width and height from ground. So, all in you know how much chemical you are going to put down over a specific area.

 

Knowing the area allows you to know how many times you will have to walk it gives you a time factor (Quant 1), knowing the calibration, flow and application rates allows you to know how much chemical you need to purchase (Quant 2), and with all the information, you can workout how many tank changes/refills/cleaning/breaks etc. you will need to add in to make it a sensible days work (Quant 3)

 

So, Quant 1 + Quant 2 + Quant 3 = Cost.

Then, Cost + Buggeration Factor and/or Profit + Tax = Price for the job.

 

Its straightforward really, but probably feels more difficult then it needs to be the first couple of times you try to work it out.

 

I'm sure if the OP sat down and tried to work this out broadly as I describe above, they would not go far wrong...

[HertsWood]

Tend to charge about £0.30/m2 for roundup or Scotts react & £0.50+ /m2.

Difficult terrain and access are taken into account with a labour charge added where necessary.