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2 or 3 acres
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Geographics and Demographics will determine this question.
My family transplanted south and live down in Blountville TN, on 4.5 acres. 2 need to be mowed. She supplies a ride on mower, and the "local" mows. When he walks out with a fifty, he's thrilled. Takes a couple hours.
I live up near Boston. My lawn care crew comes in weekly. I have about 8000 sq. ft. That's a fifth of an acre. I pay $35.00 + a $7.00 gas surcharge. So $42.
Up here in Boston's burbs in the upper middle class, rich, lower class towns a 2 acre, manicured lawn could be calculated this way to see if you make money.
In this example, we'll be using a 54" zero turn deck mower with sulky, on a level lawn, with a straight run row (NO OBSTACLES).
We will have to make 66, 295' long passes with no margin of error to finish the lawn in the quickest time. This is a one pass job. If the client wants a double diagonal pass for that "baseball" field, effect, the final fee will go up at least 50%.
Assume the lawn is a perfect square of 295' x 295', or 87,025 sq. ft. in total.
The mower and driver will travel at 5 mph or 5280 ft. per mile. At 5 mph, the mower and driver are traveling at 26,400 ft per hour.
Each row mowed will reduce the total by 295' l x 4.5' w or 1327.5 sq.ft. By the time the entire lawn of 87,025 sq. ft. is finished, the mower and driver will have traveled 19,470 ft.
Divide 19470fph/26400fph =0.7375. Round this to .75 to tidy the math.
.75 x 60min = 45 minutes of mowing time, and that's hauling butt, and assuming no stops, breakdowns, cell phone calls from the boss, nature calls, etc...
Add in drive time to the job, unloading, mowing, string trimming, reloading, fuel, insurance, wages, workman's comp, fica, futa, etc... and you can charge about $175. Ho much did you make? That is always the magic question.
Geographics and Demographics will determine this question.
My family transplanted south and live down in Blountville TN, on 4.5 acres. 2 need to be mowed. She supplies a ride on mower, and the "local" mows. When he walks out with a fifty, he's thrilled. Takes a couple hours.
I live up near Boston. My lawn care crew comes in weekly. I have about 8000 sq. ft. That's a fifth of an acre. I pay $35.00 + a $7.00 gas surcharge. So $42.
Up here in Boston's burbs in the upper middle class, rich, lower class towns a 2 acre, manicured lawn could be calculated this way to see if you make money.
In this example, we'll be using a 54" zero turn deck mower with sulky, on a level lawn, with a straight run row (NO OBSTACLES).
We will have to make 66, 295' long passes with no margin of error to finish the lawn in the quickest time. This is a one pass job. If the client wants a double diagonal pass for that "baseball" field, effect, the final fee will go up at least 50%.
Assume the lawn is a perfect square of 295' x 295', or 87,025 sq. ft. in total.
The mower and driver will travel at 5 mph or 5280 ft. per mile. At 5 mph, the mower and driver are traveling at 26,400 ft per hour.
Each row mowed will reduce the total by 295' l x 4.5' w or 1327.5 sq.ft. By the time the entire lawn of 87,025 sq. ft. is finished, the mower and driver will have traveled 19,470 ft.
Divide 19470fph/26400fph =0.7375. Round this to .75 to tidy the math.
.75 x 60min = 45 minutes of mowing time, and that's hauling butt, and assuming no stops, breakdowns, cell phone calls from the boss, nature calls, etc...
Add in drive time to the job, unloading, mowing, string trimming, reloading, fuel, insurance, wages, workman's comp, fica, futa, etc... and you can charge about $175. Ho much did you make? That is always the magic question.
How much should I charge to mow a person's front and back lawn.?
Rob S
>>I was thinking of working on people's lawns this summer. So, I was wondering what would be an acceptable range of prices for cutting it. In addition, I would do other chores, such as babysitting and cleaning people's houses/ painting their houses. How much should I charge for that?
Thank you for your help,
Rob.
Answer
For the lawn it needs to consider if you have a push or riding mower, how big the yard is, does the yard have obstacles trees, garden gnomes, etc. I base mine on this equation (price of gas + age of owner (less by 5% if senior citizen)+ acres of yard) An example would be like for a gallon of gas costing $3.11 and It takes 2 gallons to mow the lawn it costs $7.22 plus if lawn is small like one acre $10 dollars an acre and if the person is capable of mowing themself I add 5%. So for an average lawn I make $17 to $20.
For the lawn it needs to consider if you have a push or riding mower, how big the yard is, does the yard have obstacles trees, garden gnomes, etc. I base mine on this equation (price of gas + age of owner (less by 5% if senior citizen)+ acres of yard) An example would be like for a gallon of gas costing $3.11 and It takes 2 gallons to mow the lawn it costs $7.22 plus if lawn is small like one acre $10 dollars an acre and if the person is capable of mowing themself I add 5%. So for an average lawn I make $17 to $20.
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