Morning all,
Local guy (in Kent) has offered to cut our hedge and said to pay him what we think it’s worth...he’s taken about 90mins and done a pretty good job.
How much should I pay him?!
Ours takes two blokes about 5 hours. £150. They take the rubbish away.
£25 per hour depending on quality of workmanship and disposal etc.
£50 £40 if he's done a good job (he's more likely to come back when you want it doing next time)
I don't mind cutting hedges but hate the clear up afterwards.
He’s tidied up pretty well. And he did our neighbours side too (which I’m happy to pay for as she does other crap for us...)
£1.00/m2.
Never pay for time. Always pay for output.
Never pay for time. Always pay for output.
How do I quote for a job without working out my labour cost x time to do it?
Works both ways.
We have ours cut about every two years and I trim it down the rest of the time.
Last time there were 4 lads working for over 8 hours and it cost £600.
Even with all the waste chipped into the back of the truck they had to empty it 3 times.
Your trimmer or his?
Trimmings disposed or left?
A typical gardener does a quick regular maintenance trim for about £15 a visit, so maybe £45 ?
Just spent an hour trimming a small amount of our hedge that I didn't get finished last week due to a neighbour's visitor having their car parked upto the hedge. Quite glad really as the rest had already taken a couple of hours including clean up.
It depends on how much hedge. 90 minutes including clean up isn’t a lot of hedge.
I’ve got 70m of 2m tall hedge, both sides. It takes me 6-7 hours including clean up, but then that’s two trips to the recycling centre to dispose of it at an hour each trip.
It’s bloody hard work to get it done in that time. The reality would be paying someone to do that would be north of £200-250.
I have about the same (about 70 metres) and it costs me about £250. I only have a tiny car so taking it all to tip loads of times including the hours of cutting, buying/maintaining/starting a 2 stroke hedge trimmer etc,. means I just pay to get it done.
My hedge trimmer? 90 minutes including sweeping up? £25
£30 if sweeping up is after 90 mins of cutting.
If it's cut regularly there shouldn't be too much waste so minimal (if any) extra charge for disposal
Five hours since you posted so he's probably getting bored waiting for a donation 🙂
Cutting hedges during nesting season? Tsk
Indeed. You should be leaving hedge cutting until the end of June. The neighbours did there’s a couple of weeks ago. The result: a few happy cats, quite a few dead fledglings and some very distressed Goldfinches. He was really upset about the resulting carnage 🙁
End of August at the earliest
If you care so much about birdies, don’t have pussycats.
They are way more damaging than hedge trimmers.
About £10, depending on format:
The hedge trimmers make it a lot easier for the puddy tats.
Our two seem to have no interest in birdies. One of them has no interest in anything that would involve him expending any energy whatsoever. The other is a killing machine but seems to stick to a rodents only genocide
Northernsoul - I’ve just posted a tune up from that very same album on the Tory drugs thread 😃
Every other cut, I get locals in, two to three turn up, cut the 3m high 30m long, fiddly ****er of a hedge and remove cuttings (extra large cage trailer). Takes about 1.5 hours, I pay 75 in cash. Everyone seems happy.
Hedge trimmer from Aldi £50.
Keep on top of it and dispose of cuttings in your garden waste recycle bin, the council take it away for free.
Sheesh.
That’s the new plan oreetmon. In fact I might have said that last time too. One day!
the council take it away for free
That depends where you live.
Hedge trimmer from Aldi £50.
Keep on top of it and dispose of cuttings in your garden waste recycle bin, the council take it away for free.
Sheesh.
All depends how big your hedge is. The £50 hedge cutter would probably be burnt out after one go and the trimmings typically fill a pickup truck about 4 foot deep. That is going to take a lot of weeks of filling up the (not free at all) garden waste bags which also have to be used to cater for gardening and the two large bags we have already get completely filled up without any hedge trimmings in them.
The garden waste bins from my council cost £60 per year. Collected once a fortnight. It would hold one of my garden waste bags, of which I fill 12 of every hedge cut. So 24 weeks of disposal for one cut. I do 4-5 cuts a year.
I used to get through an electric hedge trimmer per year before I bought a BIG ARSE Petrol Stihl.
It doesn’t add up.
When I'm not IT contracting I do a bit of work for a local gardener to keep me out of trouble. The going rate is £15 an hour, if he's done a good job then bung him £30.
Professional 20 to 30 per hour plus waste. Odd job cash in hand neighbour using your stuff and not taking waste then 15ish per hour.
