Landscape Estimating - Costs

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How To Determine Landscape Contract Costs
by Phil Nilsson Green Industry Consultants
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For: Lawn Care - Landscape Construction - Grounds Maintenance - Facility Managers - Cost Estimators - Project Planners

The better you know costs, the more certain you are of profits. This book clears up confusion about determining costs and controlling them. Step-by-step examples are used and explained so that you can apply them to your business. Examines systems used to bid the work and compare costs upon job completion. How To Determine Job Costs - for commercial Lawn Care Services - Landscaping Business - Grounds Maintenance Contractors is a tool for bidding & estimating, cost & profit improvement and to track business results. Learn how to calculate direct costs, indirect costs, overhead costs and apply an overhead rate to your job bidding & pricing estimates.

Contents:
How To Control Costs
Setting Up A Company Cost System
How To Establish a Price Based On Cost
Cost Accounting - What You Should Know
Chart of Accounts - Financials - Cost Reports
How To Develop Cost "Models" for Fast Job Bidding
Standard Costs and How To Use Them To Control Labor
Easy Way To Pinpoint: Direct, Indirect & Overhead Costs
Cost Variables - Track Profits Everyday in Under 15 Minutes
Track Employee Performance Using Predictable Labor Cost Hours
How To Calculate Your Net Profits for any Period in under 15 minutes

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Nilsson's Job Pricing Guides (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) makes it faster and easier for you to price lawn care, grounds maintenance, and landscape installation projects. The Price List serves as a quick job price reference tool when you're not sure what to charge, and as a valuable resource to compare your prices with landscape industry averages. You'll have a way to check your price before making your final pricing decision and submitting your bid to your customer.

The Job Prices are from surveys conducted nationwide by Nilsson Associates. Survey participants names and locations are confidential, and not available. Nilsson's Price Guides include job specifications, work descriptions, quantities, A to Z individual services price lists, price ranges, and price averages of what contractors are currently charging for the work categories below:

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Aerating lawns
Aerating Core
Back Pak Spraying lawns,
Bak Pak shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns
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
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Firewood sales
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Ground Covers - Plants
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Hourly Rates - Landscape
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Lawn Chemical Prices - Acre, Square Foot
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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
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Pavers Stone
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Pavement and litter control
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Planting Trees & Shrubs in landscapes
Pressure washing of houses, vehicles, walks
Pruning of shrubs,
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Pruning ornamental trees
Putting Greens Installations - artificial turf for golf
Retaining Walls Installed of wood, stone
Retaining Walls Timbers
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Salting Walks
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Sanding & Salting of parking lots and roads for ice control
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Slit Seeders
Snow Plowing Prices
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Snow Plowing Driveways
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Snow Plowing By The Inch
Snow Plowing By The Storm
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Snow Shoveling
Snow Blowing Walks & Driveways
Sod Installations on lawns
Sod Rolls Installed
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Spraying Lawns
Spraying Weeds
Spraying Shrubs
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Stone Installations for shrub beds, landscape areas
String Trimming Lawns
String Trimming Edging
String Trimming Obstacles
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Stump Grinding after removal and tree takedowns
Tree & Shrub Programs - fertilizing - weed & insect control
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Trimming Shrubs
Trimming Trees
Trucking & Hauling of landscape materials
Turf Installs
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Underpricing Mowing
Underpricing landscapes
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Nilsson's Price Guidelines are also useful for real estate management companies, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and university campus grounds maintenance supervisors and grounds management cost estimators and budget departments. The Price Guides give an approximation of what their grounds care maintenance and landscape improvement jobs, grounds expansion and development costs are likely to be.

Background & References
Nilsson Associates are Consultants to the membership of the Professional Lawn Care Association of America. Our Learning Systems are endorsed by the leading Industry Associations, by the Horticultural Departments at Ohio State University, The University of Tennessee, The University of Georgia, and in use by thousands of Landscape Contractors, Lawn Service Companies, Property Managers, Government Facilities, Park Departments and Municipalities nationwide.

When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more landscape industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care bids, job bidding & estimating for tree care, irrigation installation & service, pavement sweeping & maintenance, snow plowing operations, landscaping and hardscaping job bids for both commercial & residential customers as well as real estate management, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and univeristy grounds. The prices cover; landscape estimates & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, 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, most all outdoor 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 for sanding.

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