On Jan 3, 9:31*pm, chris French
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In message , Kate Morgan
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My daughter and son in law need a gardener just to keep their
garden *tidy,
you know the sort of thing cutting the lawn and the odd bit of pruning,
nothing heavy. They have approached several people and the charges
are *£25
per hour but the gardeners *wont do less than 2 hours work. The
family *are
in Edinburgh, any comments, surely that a bit expensive.

A small (father and son) gardening company in Perth charge £8 an hour
for general 'tidying' work, cutting grass, hoeing beds, light pruning,
etc. but that is on a regular maintenance agreement. *They may have
charged more for the initial work undertaken, I wouldn't know.

I wouldn't be prepared to pay more than double that, even in Edinburgh....

Someone cuts the grass for us, trims hedges occasionally, uses his own
machinery, tidies up after himself etc. and charges £15 per hour. *The £25
might be for two people, perhaps?

-- *Sacha

Not sure Sacha, I think it was only one person but *what is annoying is
the fact that they want to do 2 hours work, I still think that £50 to
get ones grass cut and a bit of gentle sorting out is excessive.

surely that is just their way of putting people off who only want
smaller jobs?

If they can get enough business with that sort of arrangement, not
suprising they don't want to bother with the faff or more but smaller
jobs
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Hi Chris, long time no hear, how are Helen and the children? Which
hospital is she at now?