[Terre]

I took the wonderful advise I've found here, and sat down and figured out exactly what my overhead is, how many hours of work are potential in the season, etc. and determined my hourly rate. (Other threads explain this marvelously). That is what I charge for maintenance.

Contracts are an entire different can of worms for me at this point. I carefully measure, plot and plan, list and price out every single item I am going to use, add in my markup, and then basically take a wild ass guess for how long the install will take, and multiply that by said hourly rate. I have yet to be right on the length of time for the install.

So, what does that make mine, a carefully calculated, scientific wag?