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Not a bad price at all. I'd snatch his hand off, assuming he's got a good reputation that is 😉
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Taking back the jungle
- Thread starter Gill
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Yeah ex paid £1000 to have hers done and she had 1/4 gravelled with buff chippings. Then a shed built, patio laid borders and slabs and grass.
So I think it's a fair price.
Do need to check if it includes the cost of the gravel etc though.
So I think it's a fair price.
Do need to check if it includes the cost of the gravel etc though.
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If in doubt ask. Not entirely tuned in to what constitutes a fair day's pay for a fair day's work around your way. Nor the ridiculous and ever spiralling cost of materials.
But to add some context, one landscape gardener quoted me the optimistic price of £25,000 for a basic earth moving job and perimeter fencing 😱
Extortion under any definition, especially as he'd done a similar job for my son at 1/5 of the price. It seems some jobs, these days, are priced at a perceived ability to pay rather than actual cost.
But to add some context, one landscape gardener quoted me the optimistic price of £25,000 for a basic earth moving job and perimeter fencing 😱
Extortion under any definition, especially as he'd done a similar job for my son at 1/5 of the price. It seems some jobs, these days, are priced at a perceived ability to pay rather than actual cost.
Any indication how long the job would take? Round our neck of the woods, a day rate is anywhere between £180 and £250.
Yeah at the previous house, they wanted 6k for astroturf
Will have a chat with them at the weekend, as back in cov then.
I think that’s very much the case at the moment. I think trades people have got that much work available, they can charge what they want. They can happily add 25%-50% to the usual price and quote 10 people even though that only have capacity to take on one of the jobs, and one of those 10 will end up paying the inflated price.
We recently got a quote for an external double garage to be built on the front of our property and the builder quoted £73k . . . for a basic garage!
It was only a few years ago we paid less than £60k for a two floor extension the full width of our old house, fully fitted and finished throughout!
Yup.
seedoubleyou
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I’ll always personally give everything a bash myself before paying another man to do it.
Only thing I won’t touch is electrics.
Only thing I won’t touch is electrics.
yeah that's why i had a go myself. And quickly realised it would be too much and I would end up hurting myself in the process of clearing it all.
Nothing has changed on this really.
Had a bad roof leak in the kitchen roof, but it was tracking into the neighbours lovely new kitchen so that was over 1K to fix and replace her damaged goods. Insurance claim denied.
Then the Fence came down in storms over winter. That was another £800 spent, DO NOT like that the builders here don't remove the waste now and just leave it. So the Garden has been trashed with Roofing stuff and fencing and Obs all the Ivy that had to be ripped out.
Had a new quote just to clear the rubbish and waste. And that was £1200-1400, Medium Skips came in at £800 for all the waste and £150 for the SK Matrasses and Sofas. Why dad has x3 3 seaters i dont know.
So i decided to buy a garden shredder and incinerator bin. Its going to take me a long time to reduce all this waste.
Some of the large pieces from the IVY i cant burn and will have to use the Garden waste Bin, when i Renew that this month. As they only give you 1 brown bin for bi monthly collection.
Now that the weather has changed i have made a start, and so far burned 2 fence panels of the 8 down to ash. Going to cut down as much of the Ivy into smaller bits so i can cram more into the brown bin. I'm only burning for about an hr a day so fa,. so that its not all day and annoying the neighbours.
One good thing, is the fencers unearthed a pile of large cinder blocks, so i can use that to block the dogs access to the neighbours on the right. Over winter he has loved it when the temp fencing would fall down so he could wander about their garden.
Had a bad roof leak in the kitchen roof, but it was tracking into the neighbours lovely new kitchen so that was over 1K to fix and replace her damaged goods. Insurance claim denied.
Then the Fence came down in storms over winter. That was another £800 spent, DO NOT like that the builders here don't remove the waste now and just leave it. So the Garden has been trashed with Roofing stuff and fencing and Obs all the Ivy that had to be ripped out.
Had a new quote just to clear the rubbish and waste. And that was £1200-1400, Medium Skips came in at £800 for all the waste and £150 for the SK Matrasses and Sofas. Why dad has x3 3 seaters i dont know.
So i decided to buy a garden shredder and incinerator bin. Its going to take me a long time to reduce all this waste.
Some of the large pieces from the IVY i cant burn and will have to use the Garden waste Bin, when i Renew that this month. As they only give you 1 brown bin for bi monthly collection.
Now that the weather has changed i have made a start, and so far burned 2 fence panels of the 8 down to ash. Going to cut down as much of the Ivy into smaller bits so i can cram more into the brown bin. I'm only burning for about an hr a day so fa,. so that its not all day and annoying the neighbours.
One good thing, is the fencers unearthed a pile of large cinder blocks, so i can use that to block the dogs access to the neighbours on the right. Over winter he has loved it when the temp fencing would fall down so he could wander about their garden.
Onoma1
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If you are going for raised beds consider keeping any organic matter and composting it down to use to fill your beds. Compost and topsoil is a bit pricey atm. Thick pieces of ivy can be shredded down then composted. Or just create a pile of material to encourage insects and other wildlife. It will rot down into wonderful compost in a couple of years.
Good idea, I have a 10 foot ivy fence to shred atm. But the shredder I got is not coping with it well. So will just use the trimmer to cut is down and etc. Will save me filling the brown bins with it.
