lbtcadmin
07-30-2008, 04:25 PM
Business Form
Lawn Services - Landscape - Tree Care - Pesticides
Landscape Construction Estimating
Visualize the job….
One of your most useful "tools" in landscaping estimating is to use the "art of visualization." It’s learning to "see" the job in your mind and imagination before, during and after the job is completed. In other words, you think the job through and visualize all of the steps needed to complete it. As you do this, you arrange the work in chronological order as close as possible to what will actually take place at the work site once the work begins. If you list the steps needed, if and when you are awarded the work, you’ll have a ready list that will refresh your memory as well as a to-be-done-list to use when planning the job.
The outline on this and the following page can serve as an example of what would be included in "visualizing" a landscape installation in a modest, uncomplicated landscape. You could use this list as a checklist to further develop your own all-encompassing checklist so that you have a starting point to bidding any landscape construction project.
Item: Equipment Materials Est.and Tools Needed_________________ Hours
1. Initial meeting with customer ____________________________________
2. Prepare landscape design/plan ___________________________________
3. Draw a cost proposal ____________________________________________
4. Second meeting with customer __________________________________
5. Contract changes/modifications_________________________________
6. Third customer meeting/acceptance ____________________________
7. Order material _________ _________ ____________________________
8. Assemble tools _________ _________ ____________________________
9. Reserve equipment _________ _________ _________________________
10. Allocate labor hours _________ _________ ________________________
11. Initial site preparation _________ _________ ______________________
12. Materials delivered _________ _________ _________________________
13. Filling and grading _________ _________ __________________________
14. Installing bed soils _________ _________ __________________________
15. Planting trees and shrubs _________ _________ ___________________
16. Staking and guying trees _________ _________ ___________________
17. Installing mulch in beds _________ _________ _____________________
18. Fertilizing all plantings _________ _________ ______________________
19. Watering all plantings _________ _________ _______________________
20. Removal of rock and debris _________ _________ __________________
21. Spreading top soil _________ _________ __________________________
22. Grading soil to final finish _________ _________ ____________________
23. Installing seed & fertilizer _________ _________ ____________________
24. Installing a covering mulch _________ _________ ___________________
25. Watering newly installed lawns _________ _________ ________________
26. Removal of rock and debris _________ _________ ___________________
Landscape Construction Estimating Equipment Materials Est.
And tools Needed Hrs.
27. Installing hard surfaces _________ _________ _____________________
28. Installing landscape accents _________ _________ _________________
29. Installing annuals, perennials _________ _________ _________________
30. Removal of waste and debris _________ _________ _________________
31. Watering remaining plantings _________ _________ _________________
32. Verifying dimensions _________ _________ ________________________
33. Removal of heavy equipment _________ _________ _________________
34. Final cleanup of site _________ _________ ________________________
35. Final inspection of work _________ _________ _____________________
36. Customer meeting for acceptance
of completed job ________
37. Customer billing for completed job ________
This form contributed by: Nilsson Associates www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)
Other
resources:
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.
Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
Nilsson's FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobsnobody 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; 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.
For more information: Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
http://nilssonbooks.com/_borders/Phil-Nilsson-Picture.jpg
Phil Nilsson
"Best Selling Author"
www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)
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.
Special Book Discounts (http://nilssonbooks.com/discounts_and_deals.htm)
(http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)FREE JOB PRICING GUIDELINES (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
(http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/jobestpakbanpn.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
(http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/coms_banner_d.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
(http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/nilsson_assoc_banner_b.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/)
Lawn Services - Landscape - Tree Care - Pesticides
Landscape Construction Estimating
Visualize the job….
One of your most useful "tools" in landscaping estimating is to use the "art of visualization." It’s learning to "see" the job in your mind and imagination before, during and after the job is completed. In other words, you think the job through and visualize all of the steps needed to complete it. As you do this, you arrange the work in chronological order as close as possible to what will actually take place at the work site once the work begins. If you list the steps needed, if and when you are awarded the work, you’ll have a ready list that will refresh your memory as well as a to-be-done-list to use when planning the job.
The outline on this and the following page can serve as an example of what would be included in "visualizing" a landscape installation in a modest, uncomplicated landscape. You could use this list as a checklist to further develop your own all-encompassing checklist so that you have a starting point to bidding any landscape construction project.
Item: Equipment Materials Est.and Tools Needed_________________ Hours
1. Initial meeting with customer ____________________________________
2. Prepare landscape design/plan ___________________________________
3. Draw a cost proposal ____________________________________________
4. Second meeting with customer __________________________________
5. Contract changes/modifications_________________________________
6. Third customer meeting/acceptance ____________________________
7. Order material _________ _________ ____________________________
8. Assemble tools _________ _________ ____________________________
9. Reserve equipment _________ _________ _________________________
10. Allocate labor hours _________ _________ ________________________
11. Initial site preparation _________ _________ ______________________
12. Materials delivered _________ _________ _________________________
13. Filling and grading _________ _________ __________________________
14. Installing bed soils _________ _________ __________________________
15. Planting trees and shrubs _________ _________ ___________________
16. Staking and guying trees _________ _________ ___________________
17. Installing mulch in beds _________ _________ _____________________
18. Fertilizing all plantings _________ _________ ______________________
19. Watering all plantings _________ _________ _______________________
20. Removal of rock and debris _________ _________ __________________
21. Spreading top soil _________ _________ __________________________
22. Grading soil to final finish _________ _________ ____________________
23. Installing seed & fertilizer _________ _________ ____________________
24. Installing a covering mulch _________ _________ ___________________
25. Watering newly installed lawns _________ _________ ________________
26. Removal of rock and debris _________ _________ ___________________
Landscape Construction Estimating Equipment Materials Est.
And tools Needed Hrs.
27. Installing hard surfaces _________ _________ _____________________
28. Installing landscape accents _________ _________ _________________
29. Installing annuals, perennials _________ _________ _________________
30. Removal of waste and debris _________ _________ _________________
31. Watering remaining plantings _________ _________ _________________
32. Verifying dimensions _________ _________ ________________________
33. Removal of heavy equipment _________ _________ _________________
34. Final cleanup of site _________ _________ ________________________
35. Final inspection of work _________ _________ _____________________
36. Customer meeting for acceptance
of completed job ________
37. Customer billing for completed job ________
This form contributed by: Nilsson Associates www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)
Other
resources:
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.
Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
Nilsson's FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobsnobody 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; 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.
For more information: Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
http://nilssonbooks.com/_borders/Phil-Nilsson-Picture.jpg
Phil Nilsson
"Best Selling Author"
www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)
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.
Special Book Discounts (http://nilssonbooks.com/discounts_and_deals.htm)
(http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)FREE JOB PRICING GUIDELINES (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
(http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/jobestpakbanpn.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
(http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/coms_banner_d.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
(http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/nilsson_assoc_banner_b.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/)