Pricing a Gardening Job using a Real Example | How to Quote Garden Maintenance | Grass & Hedges | UK 

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Great video, top advice

Just came across your video and it’s helped me out in a big way of pricing jobs , I live in South Wales and on the verge of starting my own business this has helped a great deal ,,,, thanks !!

Love the videos mate young garder er trying to go from a 9-5 to mowers and sunshine keep them coming 👍🏻💯

You make some great content mate hope your channel grows quickly 👍

£150 all day long. If all your gear is Stihl and professional equipment then it's not cheap. Anyone with a crappy set of equipment could do that job. But it's about reputation and looking professional. If I had lots on and wasn't too fussed if I got the job or not I'd probably put £180 on it, then finish the day with a little £50 job. £230 day. -£30 for running cost and insurance £200 profit is a nice day Steady day Nice video mate keep it up

thank you

Nice to see a honest, upfront video. I would be charging, as a one off job, £100. As a regular, about £75. That's in Wirral, North West. As you say, it's up to the gardener on what his overheads are. I always overcharge by £10 or £20 just incase it overruns. I can then offer a discount and look like a good guy. Your work speaks for itself, good quality and clean. Its the hardest thing to do at the start, pricing jobs, but even 30yrs down the line that 3hr job may take 5hr.

Great video

Your right you gota sus the person early onn and know if there gona be a nightmare and nothing is good enough or right lol or even try and con you as it rearly does happen a women nearly did me the other week but I pulled out last minute Cart beat the older generation who are garden proud and willing to spend the required money and also generally much nicer people that you can trust inn

Hello ever one I am in Devon bean going for too months now I was charging £15 per hour and then £2 litre of fuel but now gone all in at 20 per hour I compast all my waste and bag it up ad sell it back to them if thay need I'd it love video's 🚜

I'm quite new to the "professional" gardening market, pricing is the hardest thing, especially when you estimate a job to take 2 hours but it ends up taking over 3 hours but you still have to work to the initial quote. It's all a learning curve but I like this content as it's made me rethink now to take into account all my other expenses.

I’d charge £130 down on the south coast. I usually do these sort of jobs as an extra on a Saturday morning, nice simple job 3/3.5hour job then start the weekend.

Being in the south east I charge 20 quid more(Everything is more expensive here). 100 regular, 120 one off. Don't be a cheapscate, you have a business to run! I keep telling myself. Great video, honest on costs, charging.

Thankyou for sharing your knowledge and experience! I am thinking of taking early retirement and doing garden maintenance, including Deck repairs - and basic gardening, Im not so good at the plant recognition so might have to ask customer what they want to prune. Not sure how much I would pay per builder bag of waste I will check with our local recycle centre, Do you supply stuff like compost/lawn or vegetable feed etc?

To me that would be £200 (southwest). I used to do dozens of these as landlord tidy ups prior to new tenants. Asuming long grass flail mow, cut hedges flail mow in cuttings to mutch, blow any minimal debris under hedge as multch. Spray weeds on paved areas etc in preference to scrapping off. I would usually tidy up any shrubs as a freebie, roses etc and strip off any ivy from walls, no waste removed all mulched. Predominantly battery kit so main fuel would be traveling time, walkbehind diesel goldni twist two wheel tractor with berta flail. Think about what the job is worth to the customer, for a landlord most take between a month and two months rent as a deposit from tenants and withhold this proportionally depending on the state the tenants leave the property. A landlord will budget either part of the deposit or a proportion of the new tenants rent for tenancy change over, photos of before and after always taken and emailed to landlord. If you insist on removing waste eg a very tidy garden then lay two 8x4 ply boards down, pile waste on top and run the flail mower over it reduces the bulk greatly allowing it to be loaded onto the trailer or into bulk bags and combined together with multiple jobs. I would charge each client who wanted waste removed the greenwaste tip fee at cost for trailer (£45) then store this at my barn waiting till I had three or four jobs worth and then effectively get paid again to tip the waste. Boring work but profitable if your efficient.

I'm in North West England gardener for 30yrs+ Good price that. Try getting some commercial work as well.

Nice video ! Out of interest what make of hedge cutter did you use for the hedges ?

There’s a shift of work there with a high volume of waste (Trailer load). The Council will be into you for £40 to dump that and other expenses would require a £200 fee for that job. NE

To be honest I would of sorted that for £75. Defintely need to up my prices after looking at the comments. Liverpool, NW

Ok so it seems like people who do gardening do it differently than I do. We offer a weekly service that is paid for at the end of every month. Here in California, the usual price is between $55-$90 depending on if you’re just mowing the lawns and blowing all the trash up, bin it, and on your way OR if you’re going to do all that plus trimming/pruning roses, trimming off dead limbs off of plants, bush trimming, cultivating the soil in planters, throwing fertilizer, throwing down mulch, etc. A one off job is priced differently of course but the minimum is $90 no matter what, you priced your job very good, I would’ve priced exactly the same for that kind of job. My question is, if you were to do weekly service to mow and do maintenance for lawns, how much would you charge? Also, when would you expect them to pay and would you charge PER visit or charge one price that covers the entire month? And if the latter, how much would you charge?

A builders bag full of brash,let's say two makes one, so u can lift it £30 £40 a full bag £35 to £45 per hr Labour. East Midlands semi suburban rate.this job definitely £180 -£200

i would say 30 each the mowing and strimming back and front and 15 for the hedges and i take the clippings and grass 75 im a noivice and open to learn north manny

Hi really appreciate your content keep up the good work. looking at that job I would have probably thought half a day so yes about 100 for a one off and about 75 for a regular customer. Waste charges would be on top of that and I now charge 35/m3 for green waste removal (equivalent to about 4 wheely bins stuffed full) this covers tip charges and time taking stuff to tip. I am based central Scotland. Just put my charges up this year. 25 first hour 20 proceeding hours, min charge 12.50. Previously I was 15 an hour (120/day) which would be OK if you could consistently fit 40hrs chargeable hours into a week. I could only do this by doing long days and long weeks. I am aiming for about 30hrs chargeable per week now. Still happy to do long days but it hopefully now counts as extra income. For info I recon my expenses are going to about 600 a month this year so I look at it like this wages are not getting earned till after first tea break (tea breaks 🤣 those were the days) and if I want to make profit I better be doing overtime. 🙂.

I would have been at £120 and reckon it would have taken me 2.5 hours. Another good video 👍

Based near Heathrow West London and would probably charge around £150 for this if it was within say 5 miles. If a job like that came up in Central London then be more like £250 as ulez and congestion zone charges come in to play

love your videos mate, with hedge strimming, do you check for nesting birds, and if so are they easy to spot?

180 to 220 north east

It's a strange thing this pricing, most vid's I watch are from the north, I'm south east and could never get that sort of money here.

£300 with waste away. Minimum charge is £250 for one-off work we take on for 2 hours max and waste away

One off waste away 200 no waste 170. and I let them know going forward if I was maintaining there garden it would be much cheaper, just to trim the bushes twice a year would be around the 100 mark. North manchester.. btw I only get 50% of my quotes because I quote high and I quote alot off pictures just because I'm busy really.

Stick yer prices up lad, I've got over 80 cuts a fortnight and in my head I'm at 30 ph

I would have charged £100 including taking waste away and I’m in Peterborough Cambridgeshire

Obstacles - adult junk, kids toys, dog and cat poo. They'll let you clean and tidy up. They'll still criticise you and find ways to not pay. Charge for tidying up their crap. Charge for using your bags. The lower you charge the more you'll loose. Cheapo gets the door mat treatment. After costs you need 20 per hour so you need to charge about 60.

When doing taller hedges like these, did you just use the angle adjustment on your strimmer? Or did you use a ladder? Never done taller hedger, so just wondering!

£250 - £300 East Anglia

I live in Yorkshire and I would have changed 160 labour and waste. Probably 3, 1 ton sized bags of waste. 3 - 3.5 hours labour. When you got a small van and don't have any space available in the van at the end of the job you've got to take it back home before you start the next job. More extra time and money 💰

these videos are so helpful, beginning to think ive screwed myself charging £15 per hour in my second season, so this job wouldve been £45 max which is just not worth it in the end 🤣 thanks everyone in the comment section

Crazy how many prices differ between person to person. I suppose people know what they are worth in the end. I think as a one off at today's money I'd be around 175.

I would charge 130 for that in South Wales

For a similar job I would be lucky to get £50 in my area for 3.5 hours work. I think I might move to the North!

im 18 and about to start my own business doing this and the pricing the job is one if the most scary things about this whole thing

Id of charged a 2er

160 im in Northants

£150 South East 🤘🏼

I would have charged a lot more than mate .. 150£