Is my landscaping quote reasonable?
Without any gardening knowledge, it is hard to gauge if quoted prices are fair when trying to help family members. Massive price jumps on proposals—such as a large tree costing ten times as much to trim as a small one—automatically look like overcharging and prevent people from confidently accepting a bid.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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Is my landscaping quote reasonable?
- 1Asking online forums for price checksDid this help you?
- 2Doing the landscaping work yourself (DIY)Did this help you?
- 3getting quotes from multiple different companiesDid this help you?
- 4skipping high-tech treatments and applying appropriate fertilizer yourselfDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Recently received a few proposal for trimming two trees, one large and one small, and the fact the large tree is 10x the cost of the small makes me think this is too much.”source ↗
“I know nothing about gardening but want to help my elderly parents out. Do these prices seem reasonable?”source ↗
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