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Trimming conifers
atarisrocks
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I have been quote £800, £990 and £1250 to trim 2 feet off the top and tidy up the front and sides of my conifers as well as removal of the waste. 1 day 1 guy and the £1250 included scaffolding hire.
The trees are 3 meters high and roughly 60 meters in length as it surrounds the property.
This is in East Anglia
The trees are 3 meters high and roughly 60 meters in length as it surrounds the property.
This is in East Anglia
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Sounds well steep.East Anglia covers quite a large area. Depending on who you ask, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, along with a good chunk of Cambridgeshire. You may well find that you are subject to the London price weighting...Any language construct that forces such insanity in this case should be abandoned without regrets. –
Erik Aronesty, 2014
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I don't know whether the quote is fair or not, but I thought big conifers grow by 1 foot per year. So if I were spending that kind of money I'd want a lot more than 2 feet trimmed off the top.
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3m is 10ft.
-2ft is where the actual cut will be so 8ft . At 8ft I am surprised that he need scaffolding (I don't albeit I am not doing 60m, more like 6m). Even so, if they do it regularly they will have their own.0 -
I'm confused why they need scaffolding to trim a conifer. We've just had a quote to cut down 7 trees, and trim back two (one being a conifer) and it's around 1.2k. We're not far from London.Saving for Christmas 2023 - £29/£365
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How many conifers is your quote for?Saving for Christmas 2023 - £29/£365
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