Gardenmac
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Quality gear onboard, hope you clamp it to prevent the want it, it must be mine brigade. I've got an Iffor and its clamped and chained no matter where it gets parked.
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Picked up 2 new customers today, no flyers, recommended by another gardener who is fully booked. i met him when I did one of my early flyer runs and got chatting. Since then had 6 regular customers from him. Couple of bottles of wine as a thanks for each one.
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Have to agree with pie eater Pete. Got the early traunch of customers from the flyers then its all been WOM. Wasted £90 advertising in the Go Local not 1 call for 3 month (Mar-MAY) Advert.
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Now have 10,000 stickers with after 6pm please contact, to stick on bottom of flyers, 9,999, 9998 .....
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Mine has Name General Garden Maintenance Grass Cutting Hedge Trimming Patio &Driveway PowerWash Tree & Shrub Pruning For a friendly reliable local service Please Call Phone no's Web address Got 10,000 a5's then someone told me to include home contact phone no after 6pm so people know your not a traveller. Flyers have brought in 90% of my regular custom
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Thanks Dan, good point re cost of hire and client. It's going to lead to other landscaping once stump grinding is finished. I'm using the grindings to mix with compost and top soil tilling the mix back into soil as its heavy clay in the main.
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Thanks Mark will do. I had the same problem with a 4'' chipper took ages and would have been quicker to load up the Iffor and take to the tip. Got my money back from the hire shop on that one.
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I used fireboard to back our fireplace with double skin fireproof plaster board as the recess lining for the sides. Where the flue goes up through the ceiling its in a ventillated fire-stop.
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Thanks, I was thinking around the £180 to be fair. Think it will only take a couple of hours and then making good the ground. Should lead to a bit of landscaping work as a follow on. Fingers crossed.
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Anyone give me an idea how much to charge for stumpgrinding 6 12-18" leyllandi stumps from rear garden. Trees felled 2 years ago! Want to charge a fair price as it will lead to other work, hire of grinder is £55 for day.
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RSPB have said Buzzards are the most common bird of prey these days. Wasn't long ago it was the Kestrel that was seen hovering along the motorway verges. We are lucky enough to have 4 buzzards, two adults and two of last years young roosting in trees across the field at the back. We have a bird table out back and a peregrine that comes in low across the field and as the birds on the bird table see it, normally last minute, they try to fly off only to be grabbed and sometimes thrown at speed into the patio doors by the Peregrine. Often come down in the morning to a bird imprint on the glass and lots of feathers on the floor.
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NIce work mate, well done.
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Many thanks Ian, will keep you updated on the progress, just off to check you tube.
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Hi Ian, Been mostly using hand saw,hand held jigsaw and model makers small fret. I'm just building the workshop and will be investing in an Axminster/ Jet band saw. Did you cut the the drawers using a bandsaw? Do you cut the core out and then put a blank in the base? I have an Axminster Jet Lathe and have been really impressed with the build quality.
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Try the Ariens. Good robust mower starts first time everytime 21" cutting width and goes at 4-5km per hr. Bag is a good one too. Only down side is it doesn't do stripes but it does mulch.(Handy come the autumn for the leaves). You can sort the stripes by attaching a rubber strip to the back plate.
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Great stuff. It was great yesterday not to be chasing around and to just take some time.
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Hi Si here's one from yesterdays walk.
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After a busy past few months it was such a nice day yesterday so I packed up the gear and took the dog for a walk on the beach.
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I'm 50+ Got made redundant and now run my own garden rescue landscape and general domestic maintenance service. Should have done it years ago, its hard graft but everyday is different and I don't have the monkey on my back. Go for it and good luck.
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Hi Ian, great bowls. Can I ask how did you cut the drawers from the boxes on your facebook page, every time I try to do that it ends up as Firewood.
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Quality job there, bet the client was pleased.
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Seriously though thanks guys, good discussion and some great points. Does give me something to think about when pricing in the future, especially if the work keeps coming in at the rate it is at the moment.
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Sorry, but I'm happy with enough, not that might not make good business sense but it suits me. As I said earlier if I can make a small profit all the better. I simply could not charge £500 for what was undertaken. As for the sleeping bit I would'nt touch her with yours:lol:
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Good one. I've been passing back to the client as reduced fee most of the time and sometimes they simply say keep it as a tip which is a great feeling.
