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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:10 pm
by rab1
your biggest variable is the labour cost, how long do you think you will take to build it?. trust me on this: it will take longer. so add extra time on and a little for variables but dont rip the arse out of it. that way if you win the job you can do it well and still make money. ???
PS, if that's your price as LLL says stick to it, theirs people out there who want you to pay them for the privilege.
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:48 pm
by Wills gardens
thats good help actually guys, ill go work it out, maybe add another day or 2 of labour onto it the and see whats what still working on all the plans. Be a big first job for us this year, have only done 1 other job this big last year so hoping to ge it, could be a biggy 
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:44 pm
by GB_Groundworks
did it once never again, priced a cut and fill area for a woman, 20x40 metres = £3600
60X20 = £4000 (extra day i figured)
wasn't short of work but it was easy job and a week in digger on the moors above sheffield so only 10 min drive to work not 1.30 hours. only cost £500 to move machines back and forth and 200 litres of diesel.
woman owing are r'ing said she'd need to get more quotes etc would i do the 60X20 for the price of the 40x20 not thinking straight i said yes.
so in my error or eagerness the further 20 metres down the field added an addition 2 metres drop at one corner so i had to strip a further 1 out the other end now quick bit of math 30x20x1 = 600m2 = roughly (2.21tons per m2) 1200 tons of rocky earth extra to shift.
still made on it but burned through another 100 litres of diesel and took 2 days longer than i had planned but never again. the price is the price dont buy work
Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1264020309