How much does it cost to mow a lawn?

cepheus

This afternoon a guy rang my doorbell offering to mow my lawn, presumably a neighbour said I might be interested. I became more suspicious the longer he ranted on about how good he was and the precise nature of the work involved. I said hang on, I'm not interested in landscape gardening here, just something cheap and cheerful here because my back kills me pushing the mower. It's pointless doing anything too elaborate because the dog will just dig a hole in it. He carried on for another 10 minutes about deweeding and borders......

My lawn is around 50 square metres, no bushes or anything difficult to navigate around, although it's a L shape with a path in the middle. How much time and what rate per hour would it take to do that with a decent mower? He quoted me £85! What a joke. I'll carry on doing it myself, with plenty of capsaicin cream for the pain!

I_have_spoken

£10/hr, maybe it bit more in SE England

peter_the_piper

Did you ask him to show a graph of how he was to do it and a cartoon of how the finished lawn would look?

glasgowdan

£10/hr is a joke right? Ok, £85 is a joke too. Flat rate 50m2 roughly £25 a cut. It would take me 20 mins to do, all neatly edged too.

baza52

£25 for 20 mins work lol. I think a tenner is about right.

Op, get yourself a self propelled mower then you just have to walk behind it rather than push.

PasturesNew

That sounded like a HUGE estate of a garden, until I converted it.

23' x 23' is 50 m sq.

That's the size of mine. For £85 I'd want him to do it with scissors, then lick each blade of grass straight!

elsien

Parent pays £20 for a big lawn with edges strimmed and the cuttings taken away.

sgun

gardner1, what do you mean by that? My husband is Irish and he cuts the grass for free and is happy to do our disabled neighbours for free too. Yes certain Irish people have not made a good name for the nation but why do you feel the need to tar them all with the same brush? There are lots of scammers around, its not helpful to make comments that would be best placed in 1978. I bet you wouldn't have asked "was he black?".

gardner1

sgun wrote: »

gardner1, what do you mean by that? My husband is Irish and he cuts the grass for free and is happy to do our disabled neighbours for free too. Yes certain Irish people have not made a good name for the nation but why do you feel the need to tar them all with the same brush? There are lots of scammers around, its not helpful to make comments that would be best placed in 1978. I bet you wouldn't have asked "was he black?".

£85 to cut lawn.....its a fair bet

Andypandyboy

We pay £20 every two weeks for garden maintenance including mowing two lawns, edging and weeding and sweeping up. Takes him an hour, tops.

glasgowdan

Where's the 'like' button when you need one?! "Oh but that's offensive" - SHUT UP!