Greetings all!
A) Thanks for this amazing web site. What a resource!
B) I am in the early stages of staring my own "landscaping" company, which means design, installation and maintenance services.
Thanks to Stonehenge for posting the legalese.
I am learning on the fly and from various mentors about doing estimates, making contracts, and the like.
One I'm currently in is a huge amount of shrub pruning, and purchasing/installing a modest amount of perennials.
I estimated the pruning at 10 hours, and cover the work effort for the plants by marking them up 2.5 times.
There are of course variables. What if the plants cost a bit or a lot more than my estimate? What if it takes 14 hours to prune? Is there language to cover that my estimate may be more?
I read some of the thread on "contract" vs. "T&M" and still getting my head around it all.
Sample estimates or contracts for horticulture projects would be of immense help. I'm at
paco@ourtrueroots.com
Humbly and gratefully,
Paco