Anywhere from $65 a yard to $85 a yard around here, but I think that it should be higher. Thats what sucks, everyone around here sets prices so low just to get business and we in the industry have a decision to make whether to stay competitive or tell our customers our fair market price.
The problem with both is that the customer can call anyone and ask for a price and if you are way far from that price they think that you are ripping them off, and if you try to stay competitive and give a cheap price then your basically doing it for nothing and wasting your time. I try to give the happy medium. What that is..........hmmmmmmmm, who knows.
$48.00 per yard, mulch and labor since we sometimes buy a trailer load of 80plus yards price goes from $22.50 retail to a trailer load at $10.50yard so profit is nice
I get it for 9.50 per yard wholesale. Get average of $65 to put down. To make things interesting, if there is alot of prep work (weeding, etc.) I add labor in separetely.
Some of the bigger companies here get up to $120 per yard. I asked one about a job I had that was 10 yards of mulch, he gave the price of 1200.
The problem I found with mulch jobs is that a majority of my customers fall in the middle class income bracket and these are the hardest people to make any money off of (add on services). I think its because most of them make less than $20 per hour in there jobs they don't understand how you can charge them more than minimum wage for doing yard work. I'm sick of being called to give an estimate on flower bed clean ups and mulching jobs that I would have 3+ hrs in and materials and labor and they complain or do it themselves because 250 seems way to high for me to charge.
Just had this question on the landscape forum, I get mulch for about $10/yd. Installed: weeding, edging, mulching i try to get around $100/yd. Got a 20-25 yd. job coming up, we'll go in and do the weeding and edging and i'm going to call the mulch blowers to spray it in for $40/yd. sounds like a pretty good deal, will save me tons of labor. Will be the first time i use them so we'll see how it goes.
I cant believe you guys make $100 per yard you must not have much competition in your area. I can spread about 6 yards a hour with a three man crew working our butts off. I wish I would get 100 per yard we would have many 7500 days! That doesnt happen here.
We do mulching at $34.00 per yard and $45.00 per hour to lay it down. I guess that I could charge more, but I would feel as if I am ripping my customers a new one for something that I enjoy doing.
just wandering emerald,what do you get your much for an what kind? (down there) I assume you are in fla?
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