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Save Time Preparing Your Job Bids - Price Right and Win More Lawn and Landscape Contracts. Our Best Selling Estimating System Helps You Price Accurately Because It's Based on Field Tested, Labor Hours Job Time Studies. System Includes Time Saving Prewritten Job Specifications to Word Your Contract Proposals. Comes with Proven Pricing Strategies to Get More Residential & Commercial Accounts. Our Job Pricing Guidelines Are Free With Our Job Estimating Package ... See For Yourself What Other Contractors Charge From Price Surveys for Lawn Care, Mowing, Grounds Maintenance, Landscaping Installs, Snow Plowing, Irrigation, Planting Lawns, Shrub Beds, Pesticide Programs, Tree Care, and Hundreds of Grounds Maintenance Tasks. 100% Guaranteed To Win You More Bids or Your Money Back !

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The Estimating & Bidding system
includes these four books:
Labor Time Data Handbook
Grounds Maintenance Manual
Maintenance Estimating Kit
Pricing Your Services

Used for job bids and job estimating on fixed landscaping and landscape maintenance lawn care, contracts, and bidding on a per hour, and hourly rates requests, preparing landscaping contract price and landscaping work proposals and detailed lawn and landscape job specifications that outline and explain landscaping job specifications and work for lawn & landscape customer contracts for homeowners, business owners, landscaping site developers. Nilsson's job estimating and bidding system is in widespread use by landscape contractors, lawn & grounds maintenance companies, mowers, tree care operators, for preparing landscape estimates, maintenance costs, grounds maintenance bids, and irrigation contractrors for installation and service work. Nilsson's job estimating system are also used by snow & ice managers, Park and Recreation Grounds Maintenance Departments, and Golf Course Superintendents.

The Landscaping Estimating System enables you to understand the scope of the lawn maintenance or landscaping work and how many hours the total job will take from using The Labor Time Data Handbook included with the system. You'll have a wide range of lawn care and landscaping work specifications language to choose from to word your contracts and proposals and write professionally worded maintenance & landscape job specifications. You''ll learn how to bid on a wide variety of grounds maintenance and landscaping install projects, how get tips and pointers on how reach and to sell grounds maintenance and landscape installs to commercial & residential customers , what to charge for the work based on average work times as given in the Labor Time Data Handbook which shows the amount of time it will take to complete hundreds of grounds maintenance tasks and landscape installation work, and also mowing, lawn care, fertilizing, landscaping, snow plowing, lawn irrigation systems, planting grass, shrub beds, maintaining and planting trees, and hundreds of grounds maintenance tasks in general.

Labor costs are the biggest expense in lawn and landscaping work and labor hours need to be controlled. You need to know how long the work will take, and can't accurately bid the job, or assign the right number of employees without "job time information".

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Includes FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
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Includes FREE Job Pricing Guidelines



The FREE Job Pricing Guidelines shows Current Prices (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) in use by lawn care service and landscape business for bidding and estimating lawn care & grounds maintenance jobs, landscaping, lawn mowing, using riding turf care tractors, and commercial lawn mowing equipment. Includes prices for bidding and estimating landscaping, lawn work, edging lawns, edging walks, edging landscaping shrub beds. lawn spring cleanups, fall leaf cleanups of lawns and grounds and pavement, pine straw mulching woodchips for mulching beds. Grounds maintenance and landscape work prices shown include equipment servicing, grass planting, lawn sodding, seeding lawns, weeding lawns and weeding shrub beds, weeding curbs and blacktop areas, planting landscaping shrubs, snow removal and ice management, salting for ice control, trimming lawn obstacles, pruning landscaping shrubs and ornamental trees, and shows you prices for hundreds of items you bid on.

Job Pricing Guidelines Includes Prices For:
Aerating lawns
Back Pak Spraying lawns, shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns
Cement Curbing Installation in landscapes
Chemical Applications of lawn care chemicals
Deck Installations
Dethatching of lawns
Drain Gutter Cleaning to remove leaves
Fall Cleanups of lawns and beds
Firewood sales
Flower Installations in landscapes
Grading & Filling of soil for lawns
Hardscapes - landscaping patios, stairs, walks
Hourly Work Rates on lawn care service & landscape business
Hydroseeding of lawns
Irrigation lawn Installation
Irrigation Service - lawns & beds
Landscape Designs - designing computer image landscapes
Landscape Lighting Installations
Landscape Installations lawns, shrubs, plants & trees
Lawn Care Service Chemical Applications Fertilizers Weed Controls
Lawn Renovations - Slit Seeding, Reseeding, Elimination of Growth
Liquid Applications of Fertilizers, Weed Killers
Loam Installed for lawn building and planting beds
Mowing of lawns using walkbehinds, ztr, riders, trim mowers
Mulch Installations of pine straw, woodchips, pine bark mulch
Organic Lawn Care of lawns
Parking Lot Line Marking
Parking Lot Sweeping of sand and debris
Paving Installations and hardscapes
Pavement Sweeping and litter control
Planting Trees & Shrubs in landscapes
Pressure washing of houses, vehicles, walks
Pruning of shrubs, pruning ornamental trees
Putting Greens Installations - artificial turf for golf
Retaining Walls Installed of wood, stone
Rotary Tilling of turf and soil for lawns and gardens
Sanding & Salting of parking lots and roads for ice control
Site Work of grading, hauling, rock removal prior to seeding
Slit Seeding of lawns
Snow Plowing and ice control
Sod Installations on lawns
Spring Cleanups of lawns, beds and paved areas
Stone Installations for shrub beds, landscape areas
Stump Grinding after removal and tree takedowns
Tree & Shrub Programs - fertilizing - weed & insect control
Tree Trimming of ornamental trees in landscapes
Trucking & Hauling of landscaping materials
Vegetation Management for weed control, growth control
Weed Controls in beds and lawns

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"Nilsson's books are must reads, and have helped our readers tremendously. Thanks for your continued support."
Landscaper Publications

"Your way of explaining the subject shows you know what we need to do to make money in this business, thanks."
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"Nilsson's series of books filled a void in our program ... Our students needed more insight into management, costs, profits, and how to successfully operate a business.
University of Tennessee, Horticulture Dept.

When it comes to pricing lawn and landscaping jobs nobody has more landscaping industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care job bidding & estimating landscaping job bids for commercial & residential customers. Get more customers. Price estimates & bids, grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, best price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming landscaping trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, landscaping hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential landscapes, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price sanding.

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No mattter what lawn care, maintenance or landscape services you offer, we have the information you need to save you time and money. Take a look at our extensive line of lawn care and landscaping books, audios, videos and employee training materials in English and Spanish. Start at the Nilsson Associates home page (http://nilssonbooks.com/). The index of lawn and landscape solutions includes categories dealing with estimating and bidding lawn care and landscaping, best lawn mowers, maximizing profits in lawn mowing and landscape installation work including seeding lawns, hydroseeding lawns, sodding lawns, slit seeding and drilling lawns, lawn care service job bidding & pricing, what lawn and landscaping tractors and equipment to buy, seed to use for lawns, lawn grass types, lawn chemicals, lawn fertilizers, lawn pesticides, lawn herbicides, managing landscape company operations, installing irrigation, snow plowing, planting landscaping shrubs and trees , pavement sweeping services and many others.

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Nilsson's Job Estimating System (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) has everything you need to evaluate job site specifications & work required, figure costs, how to price ~ lawns, grounds maintenance, landscape installs. You'll get step - by - step instructions, bid proposal outlines & customer contracts, labor hours job times. You'll get job price guides to compare your prices with the going rates, overhead costs, materials, profit ratios. You'll set realistic prices, and job labor hours goals based on field tested, proven, time studied labor hours for every job you bid. You'll know how to evaluate every job for total work hours required, the price to charge for the job, the profit you'll make, best crew size, job costs. You'll also get add-on service check lists to help you maximize sales by upselling customers on additional property improvements.


When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care job bidding & estimating landscaping job bids for commercial & residential customers. Get more customers. Price estimates & bids, grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, best price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price sanding.
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FREE Job Pricing Guidelines

Nilsson's Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) are in use by lawn and landscape contractors nationwide. See what other landscapers are currently charging from price lists compiled and updated by Nilsson Associates. Avoid Pricing Too High - Avoid Pricing Too Low - Win More Bids. Compare Your Prices With Nilsson's Price Lists Before You Bid - Makes Pricing Lawn & Landscape Jobs Fast, Easy, Accurate, Competitive.

Nilsson's Job Pricing Guides takes the guesswork out of bidding, and helps build confidence in your bids before you present them to your customers. Makes Job Bidding easier, faster. (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) Figure your price for a job, then compare your price (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) with the list price before you bid, or use the price given in the price lists to bid on jobs shown below:

Includes Prices For:
Aerating lawns
Aerating Core
Back Pak Spraying lawns,
Bak Pak weeds shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns
Bed Construction
Cement Curbing Installation
Cement Borders Installed
Chemical Applications of lawn care chemicals
Deck Installations
Dethatching of lawns
Drain Gutter Cleaning to remove leaves
Drain Gutters Installed
Drain Gutter Screening
Edging Walks
Edging Beds
Fall Cleanups of lawns and beds
Firewood sales
Firewood Cords
Firewood Bundles
Firewood Delivery
Flower Installations Flats
Flower Pots
Grading & Filling of soil for lawns
Ground Covers - Plants
Ground Covers Mulch
Hardscapes - patios, stairs, walks
Hourly Rates lawn care
Hourly Rates - Landscape
Hourly Rates Landscape design
Hourly Rates Plowing
Hydroseeding of lawns
Hydroseeding Preparation
Hydroseeding Materials
Install Sod
Install Shrubs
Install Trees
Irrigation lawn Installation
Irrigation Service - lawns & beds
Irrigation Winterize
Irrigation Repair Rates
Irrigation Controllers
Landscape Designs - designing computer image landscapes
Landscape Lighting Installations
Landscape Lighting Fixtures
Landscape Floodlights
Landscape Solar Lighting
Landscape Grading
Landscape Installations lawns, shrubs, plants & trees
Lawn Aeration Spike
Lawn Aeration Cores
Lawn Care Service Chemical Applications Fertilizers Weed Controls
Lawn Chemical Applications
Lawns Fertilized
Lawn Mowing Riders
Lawn Mowing Walkbehinds
Lawn Mowing Trim
Lawn Weed Treatments
Lawn Treatment Programs
Lawn Chemical Prices - Acre, Square Foot
Lawn Grub Control Apps
Lawn Insecticide
Lawn Renovations - Slit Seeding, Reseeding, Elimination of Growth
Liquid Applications of Fertilizers, Weed Killers
Loam Installed for lawn building and planting beds
Mowing with walkbehinds
Mowing with ztrs
Mowing with riding mowers
Mowing with trim mowers
Mowing Residential
Mowing Commercial
Mowing Condominium
Mowing Sports Fields
Mowing Cemeteries
Mulch Installs
Mulch pine bark mulch
Mulch pine needles
Mulch Spraying
Organic Lawn Care of lawns
Organic Lawn Programs
Parking Lot Line Marking
Parking Lot Sweeping of sand and debris
Paving Installations and hardscapes
Pavers Stone
Pavers Concrete
Pavement Sweeping
Pavement and litter control
Pavement line marking
Planting Trees & Shrubs in landscapes
Pressure washing of houses, vehicles, walks
Pruning of shrubs,
Pruning trees
Pruning ornamental trees
Putting Greens Installations - artificial turf for golf
Retaining Walls Installed of wood, stone
Retaining Walls Timbers
Roto Tilling turf, soil, lawns
Roto Tilling gardens
Salting Roads
Salting Walks
Sanding Roads
Sanding Walks
Sanding & Salting of parking lots and roads for ice control
Seeding lawns
Seeding wildflowers
Site Work of grading, hauling, rock removal prior to seeding
Slit Seeding of lawns
Slit Seeders
Snow Plowing Prices
Snow Plowing and ice control
Snow Removal
Snow Plowing Driveways
Snow Plowing Hourly Rates
Snow Plowing By The Inch
Snow Plowing By The Storm
Snow Plowing Fixed Seasonal Rates
Snow Shoveling
Snow Blowing Walks & Driveways
Sod Installations on lawns
Sod Rolls Installed
Sodding from Pallets
Spraying Lawns
Spraying Weeds
Spraying Shrubs
Spraying Trees
Spraying Curb Lines
Spring Cleanups of lawns, beds and paved areas
Stone Installations for shrub beds, landscape areas
String Trimming Lawns
String Trimming Edging
String Trimming Obstacles
String Trimming Trees
Stump Grinding after removal and tree takedowns
Tree & Shrub Programs - fertilizing - weed & insect control
Tree Trimming of ornamental trees in landscapes
Trimming Shrubs
Trimming Trees
Trucking & Hauling of landscape materials
Vegetation Management for weed control, growth control
Weeding shrub beds
Weeds in lawns
Weeding Pavement
Weeding Parking Lot Curbs

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About Nilsson Associates
Business consultant, speaker, nationally recognized best selling author, Phil Nilsson's articles are published in Lawn & Landscape, PRO Magazine, The Arborist and Landscaper Publications. Nilsson's books are endorsed by national trade organizations and are in use by thousands of landscapers, parks, municipalities, universities and property managers.
Nilsson owned and operated a successful Landscape Design-Build-Maintain firm for 15 years. Nilsson Associates are Consultants to the membership of the Professional Lawn Care Association of America.

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New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)

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Landscape Job Estimating Business Form
Lawn Services - Landscape - Tree Care - Pesticides



Landscape Installation Job

Client Name _____________________________ Contact Person ________________

Address _________________________________ Bus # ( ) _________________

Mail Address _____________________________ Home # ( ) _________________

_____________________________ Contract Starting Date __________

_____________________________ Estimated Completion Date _______

Name of Preparer __________________________ Date Prepared __________________

Job Description __________________________________________________ ________

Material Required:

Item: Size Quantity Unit Cost Total Source

Of Each Cost

Measure

__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ______________

Labor - Steps to completion in order of sequence:

1. _____________________Hrs. ________ 2. __________________Hrs. ______

3. _____________________Hrs. ________ 4. __________________Hrs. ______

5. ______________________Hrs. ________ 6. __________________Hrs. ______

7. ______________________Hrs. ________ 8. __________________Hrs. ______

9. ______________________Hrs. ________ 10. _________________Hrs. ______

11. _____________________Hrs. ________ 12. _________________Hrs. ______

13. _____________________Hrs. ________ 14. _________________Hrs. ______

15. _____________________Hrs. ________ 16. _________________Hrs. ______

17. _____________________Hrs. ________ 18. _________________Hrs. ______

19. _____________________Hrs. ________ 20. _________________Hrs. ______




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New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)

When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care job bidding & estimating landscaping job bids for commercial & residential customers. Get more customers. Price estimates & bids, grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, best price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price sanding.

For more information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)

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Lawn & Landscape Job Time Information
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How long will the job take ?
No matter how difficult it may be to prepare job bid contracts, you should know that it's impossible, absolutely impossible to bid on a contract without knowing time. I don't mean knowing time by looking at your pocket watch, I mean time for every part of the work. This is commonly referred to as knowing the scope of the work. How long does it take to mow grass, dig a plant a tree, prune a shrub, edge a sidewalk, travel to and from the worksite, get the equipment and vehicles ready to roll each morning? And when you take a look at the hundreds of tasks being performed, that alone clues you in to the fact that there are hundreds of times you can be wrong. That's why I said it's impossible to develop a contract bid without knowing time and the scope of the work.

Because of the tedious nature of knowing time, lots of folks just guess at it, and then use those guesses to prepare a job bid. It's not necessary to do that, and it's what I consider a form of "financial suicide". Why? Several reasons. The first is that if you're going to take the time and trouble to bid a job, the outcome should be a price that is not higher or lower than it has to be to produce an adequate profit. Here, we abandon the hit or miss approach by using intelligent work times ... or call them time standards assigned to labor hours and labor tasks. Standards are the average time it takes to perform a task, and to complete the work. The best standards of course are those that are proven because these give you a high level of confidence in the outcomes for pricing and production purposes. Proven time standards come with their own set of high confidence factors that you feel comfortable in using.
If you're going to do it often ... time it.

The most common standards to want if you do maintenance is the time it takes to mow lawns. That's because about 50% of the total time spent annually on an average customer account will be for mowing. If you don't know mowing times, that one thing will distort your bid price, your production time planning, and equipment allocations unless you "guess lucky". But why guess? All you need to do is measure for the scope of the work, adjust for worksite variables, assign a level of difficulty factor and then time ... the time ... it takes to mow using various sized equipment. Apply that information? No problem. First, larger areas are best mowed using high production equipment, with lessor productivity as you descend down, down to smaller and smaller lawn areas. When you have the square footage, you have the scope of the work. Using mowing tables depending on machine, then indicates the average mowing time. That's pretty straight forward. You visit the site and divide it into the approriate mowing category, and maybe end up with two or three different sized mowers needed for the job. On almost any site, you're likely to need several sized mowers if you are to produce the job using the fastest and best production method.

For example a site may require a rider to mow 50,000 square feet, a walk behind mower to mow 30,000 square feet, and a trim mower to take care of the smaller, tighter areas of 5,000 square feet. When you measure the site, you simply separate the areas measured into the right mower size category, rather than coming away only knowing that you have a total of 85,000 square to mow. Having that information and using it with a production table tells you how long each sized mower will be needed for the job. From that info you can assign the work, establish time goals, reserve a time block for equipment, decide on the best number of workers to do the mowing, and of course come up with a cost and price for the mowing. This same approach to job measurement can be used for other items found within the work specifications ... not just mowing. All you need is the job criteria from which to measure or putting it differently, when you know quantity, you understand the scope of the work.

How much work is there?
You'll never really know until you count it all. That's the same as saying that if you want to paint a house, to know labor time and the gallons of paint needed, you need to measure the walls, trim,and other surface areas to form the criteria and basis for your estimate. From there you arrive at material costs, labor time, price and have an idea of the tooling needed for the job. Material costs are known, labor time is known, price is known, so the only other cost is the overhead dollars to cover payroll taxes, insurance, equipment depreciation, rent, telephone, and other expenses that you can break down to an hourly basis for convenience sake when bidding jobs. That information can come from your tax return or financial statement which serves as your historical cost record. Using those figures takes much of the guesswork out of the bid process and instills a greator degree of bidding confidence as you get to know and use the numbers year after year. If somebody asks you what it costs to put a man in the field for an hour, you'll know the answer. You'll also know at what rate per hour you must charge to use for your pricing strategy.

In addition to knowing cost and price, when you know job time requirements, while a job is underway, you'll have figures to use to not only check your cost budget for the work, but actual on-site experienced job times to look at and compare. Your job estimate may indicate that the total job was supposed to be completed in let's say 100 man hours, but it took 120 or it took 90. When that happens ... a variation between estimated time and actual time to complete, then you look for the reasons for the variations. You may find that your standard times need to be changed up or down to imporve their accuracy to use on all future bids.

You sell time
The business of most service businesses is that they sell time. So time should be clearly understood and tracked as a vital part of labor, production and profit management. Of course you'll have to make certain that when you assign time to a job task that you use the best production method by selecting the most efficient equipment available.

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