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charges for gardeners, again, it keeps coming around :-)
The message from "Kate Morgan" contains these words: 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. I appreciate what Rod says re. costs etc and I note Steve's comments. Maybe my family don't want a gardener at all, maybe what they want someone who is retired and just needs a gentle job with a few pounds in cash and bacon butties at the end of a bit of work. I could do with some-one like that but no one around here in Gloucestershire wants a little job. I have ride-on mowers strimmers brush-cutters etc.etc so they would not even have to use their own tools but we still cannot find anyone to help. kate |
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