How would you price this?? (2 pircesplease)

[Orkin Yards]

I did a job and had a complaint about the price, i'll desbribe it.....

We (2 men) were at the house from (3:50-7:30 one day and for another 30 min the next) it consisted of pulling some ivy off of a wall, cutting crawling vine out of 2 windows and trimming it off of a wall, cutting back approx 7 azzalias from chest height to waist height and fertalizing, trimming 10 5 ft tall holly's, then clean-up just to give you an idea of the size of the yard, this is an $85 yard when we mow....

ALSO

what would you charge to fertalize an $85 yard if i use 1.5 11,000 sq ft bags that cost me 16/per bag.....

thank-you

[strickdad]

i get close to the cost of the mowing job to install the fert. in your case 70.00 to 85.00 $

[Lawn-Scapes]

How does $85 give us an idea of the size of the yard?

If 1 bag treats 11,000 and you are using 1.5 bags.. I would expect and hope the yard is 16,500 square feet?????

If they were on a program I would charge $50 per application.. $65 for one time.

Sounds like your clean-up would be around $300-350

If you are getting $85 to cut 16.5k yard... I commend you!

[2 man crew]

We still don't know if this yard is 16k. how do we know the application is being applied at the correct rate?

As for cutting 16k for $85.00. A fence with a small gate a few too many trees and a steep hill.......I can see $85.00

[GarPA]

for the cleanup, no less than $320

[TGCummings]

It's always difficult to price w/o looking at the job, but let's see...

2 men, 4+ hours @ yourrate/manhour = ?

If your rate per manhour is $40, the job should be charged at $333.25. This would be the charge if they were a regular lawn care customer. If not, I would charge more or just skip it.

I would base the fertilizing on the square footage of the property. For 16,000 square (if, in fact, that is what it is) my formulas come up with $102 for fertilizing. However, my market has nothing that large in it so my formulas are based on prices of lawns under 6000 square feet. Adjust accordingly for your market. ;)

Now, the big question: What did you charge?

[Orkin Yards]

i charted 170 and got a complaint....she bought us krystal and talked to us for i'd say atleast an hour of the time i charge 85 for the fert also....

[TGCummings]

$170/4 = $42.50/2 = $21.25/manhour.

That seems low to me for a professional service. A lot of guys around here will charge that, though they're under the table. If she thought that was high, I would very much consider doing no further work for her.

The $85 for fertilizing sounds about right, though...

[bobbygedd]

we sell fert programs, not single apps. the price would be $168.30 x 6 apps

[KirbysLawn]

$83 for the fert.

[bobbygedd]

just curious, do u guys have a per sq ft price for fert programs?