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Artificial Lawns
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Sustainable Group
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Stihl Multisystem
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The Hard Landscaping Show
March 24, 2010 at 9am to March 25, 2010 at 6pm – Ricoh Arena
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The Hard Landscaping Show at Ricoh Arena
March 24, 2010 at 9am to March 25, 2010 at 6pm
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Artificial grass is not to everyone’s taste but it offers a realistic alternative to the real thing.
The group is related to artificial grass where to purchase, installation tips, after care etc.
I access the site a lot, have asked questions and got a lot of help from it. 10 out of 10 Phil
if it looks a bitch work out a qoute and double it
£3K would be about the going rate plus the initial removal expenses and prep work.
Turfing would of course be the cheaper option but thats after a hell of a lot of prep work which wouldn't be that cheap considering all the issues. Don't like the ...
I'm sure I can do an inspection although I don't think she'll go for artificial grass. What are we looking at there? £45 a square metre to supply and lay? Would be easier than lugging all that subbase out!
Hi Richard,
Would you be able to do an inspect dig to find out for sure?
I would be tempted to keep the sub base and sell the client a nice artificial grass :-)
I have been asked to quote for returfing a 48 sq m area which is currently paved (paviors). I'm expecting to find 50mm of pavior and at least 100mm of sand and then scalpings. My question is:
1 - Can any of the sub-base be left in the ground, ther...
I bought mine on e-bay a couple of years back. Cost about £25 + postage. Second hand but very good tool. I think I searched e-bay using the term turf cutter
Check out http://www.greengardener.co.uk/ for nematodes, I believe Rolawn also sell them.
If your client has chafers / leatherjackets - best to use chemicals, I did use nematodes once for leatherjackets and it was okay but once the buggers get go...
Thanks for the tip on nematodes. I might also try them on chafers. Do you think they might also work on leatherjackets as well, although the chemical control for solely them is a lot more cost effective than leatherjacket/chafer combined. As you c...
Merit Turf isn't cheap but when you see the damage they do to the lawns most clients are happy to pay that little bit extra.
Profile Information
- Company name (if applicable)
- Garden Post
- First Name:
- Richard
- Surname:
- Lilley
- Telephone:
- 01189453130
- Email:
- mail@gardenpost.co.uk
- Website:
- http://www.gardenpost.co.uk
- Skype Name
- RichardLilley
- About Me:
- Retired from TV Postproduction industry in 2006 to set up own business specialising in lawn care and general landscaping. Enjoying myself immensely, even if it is hard work sometimes!
- What is your profession i.e. Landscaping, gardening, greenkeeping - other
- Landscaper
- If you are a professional gardener, landscaper or garden designer, list the services or special skills that you have
- Lawn care
Brickwork and Stonework
Patios
Decking
Garden Maintenance
- How did you find this site?
- Phil Voice found me!
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Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 8:40am on February 6, 2009,
Philip Voice said… - Good morning Richard and thanks for joining.
It is so pleasing to read profile pages about people who take a career changes and are enjoying that change.
Kind regards
Phil Voice
- At 12:46pm on April 25, 2009,
Barry Richardson said…
- Richard, are you operational as a lawn treatment company?
I develop software for lawn treatments companies, both large and small.
The program handles all aspects of scheduling customer treatments, special treatments thro to invoicing and credit control.
Costs are very reasonable and spread over 12 months and the software is configured for the possibility of a franchise operation.
Regards
Barry Richardson
- At 2:47pm on April 25, 2009,
Barry Richardson said…
- Which Franchiser are you with Richard?
For Landscape Juice members I have knocked 20% off what I normally charge.
Generally it would be around £1,000 which I would invoice over 6 to 12 months.
The scheduling is based around 4 standard treatments per year, you can run notification letters re reminders of treatments and these can be e mailed reducing costs. Records of all past treatments are shown on the job sheet allowing easy referral for lawn condition etc.
The system is integrated to allow for easy invoicing, payments by cash/chq/dd/so etc
Reminder letters automatically generated and again sent by e mail if required.
Nice little system if I say it myself.
What I can do is download a trial system to you and I use a log in system so that I can come on line and sort any issues out.
Currently I supply several Lawn Doctor Fanchisee's with my system, Lawn Master run their whole system on a similar suite.
Barry R
- At 2:54pm on April 25, 2009,
Barry Richardson said…
- Forgot to mention, you will need to have access 97 loaded as a minimum although we can sort out run times if that is not ok.
Regarding accounts, all I would do is run the system and then enter a batch figure for the month, so much simpler and we have complete control over invoicing etc whereas packages tend to tie you itno what they want you to do.
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