Grape Shears
Pricing a landscaping job correctly…?
I’ve posted a couple other questions about similiar pricing problems before here…but this is a tough one for me. This regular customer of mine I mow lawn for weekly, want’s me to see if i can get rid of her outrageously overgrown grape vines and bittersweat mangled & entangled along a stone wall with large overgrown oak trees along the same border sort of covering all the vines up etc. I’m using nothing more than a pair of hand hedge clippers & Prunning Shears & hand saw. i have no money to invest in heavy duty equiptment, so for 4 hours of cutting & 4 trips to the dump using the trunk of my car, then hardly even putting a dent in the job, I made $60.00, the next day again I didn’t like the look she gave me, so I felt guilty and charged her $50.00 for 3 hrs. She want’s me to try and see what i can do again this year for her…So what would you do, this whole job could take about 24-36 Hrs. with what I have to use for tools.?
Here is what I do….Estimate how many hours it’s going to take to do the job. Multiply that by $35 per hour (I’m in Texas, and that’s about the going rate for landscape jobs), and that will be your estimate. Good luck!
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Old antique Gorham Sterling silver unusual, figural grape shears old hallmark $275.00 |
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Antique Silverplated Grape Shears Heavy Cast Beautiful $199.00 |
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Vintage SILVERPLATE GRAPE Vine SCISSORS SHEARS MEMA EPBRASS SWEDISH $50.00 |
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Vintage Grape Shears Bamboo Pattern Beautiful! $6.99 |
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Whiting Div Gorham Sterling Grape Shears w/ Fish Handle $99.99 |
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Vintage Grape Shears in Silverplate $59.50 |
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Antique French 950 Silver GRAPE SHEARS grape leaf vine $275.00 |
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ANTIQUE FRENCH CONTINENTAL SILVER GRAPE SHEARS *ESTATE SALE* $90.00 |