First gardening job, how much should we charge?
Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit to post this on.. please redirect me if so! Ok so we enjoy gardening so we decided to turn it into a business and have landed our first potential client! We're a two person team based in East London and are struggling with pricing so we'd appreciate some guidance.
The client wants an initial full garden tidy up followed by regular maintenance visits. The work would include things like
- Cutting the grass
- Removing weeds
- Tidying/trimming hedges and plants
- Edging borders
- Seeding the lawn with grass seed
After the initial tidy, they'd like us to return for regular maintenance.
For those of you in the lawn care business (especially London/South East), what would you charge for:
- The initial tidy-up?
- Ongoing maintenance visits?
- How often would you recommend the maintenance visits?
Any advice would be hugely appreciated as this is our first client and we want to quote fairly while still making it worthwhile.
Edit: I was initially planning on charging about £180 for the initial tidy up and £50 for maintenance every two weeks. I'm not sure if that's fair on both ends? Also, I'm still going back and forth regarding quoting per hour vs. for the entire job. Any tips would be appreciated :)