What do you think of this quote?

I paid 2 men 400 for relaying 32 patio slabs they here 2hr 30mins felt bit deflated after was i taken for a mug ???

Sounds OK to me , I’d go for it. Better the devil you know…

Luckygirl that’s a very good quote. I paid £285 for a small front garden,(mostly paved) , weed the borders and lay membrane and bark ( I bought the bark)

It sounds like a lot to do in the time and I'd be happy with that quote. Presumably they are proper gardeners and know what they're doing when they cut back the climbers? They could do a lot of damage if they didn't do it well.

In the south east you pay £200 just for one chap to visit your house, if you are lucky enough to find someone willing to do so!

So it sounds good to me, but I appreciate that there will be different rates in different parts of the country.

I'll come back and let you know how it went!

Sounds very reasonable to me if you’re happy with their work, good gardeners are hard to come by, we had a brilliant chap for years, then he expanded and took on more staff, who weren’t very good, so I got another one, £45.00 an hour, and we could never see what he’d done.
Now we just get someone in for the big jobs, and do the rest ourselves.

Sounds ok to me , I would settle for that.

If it makes the garden easier to maintain then it does a good investment to be honest. They have to provide transport, tools, ( all needing maintenance) pay their NI, have liability insurance, plus pay themselves a living wage.
Buy cheap - buy twice springs to mind.

Thank goodness my premium bonds came up trumps this month!

One is a woman!
But I have taken on board all your advice ... for which many thanks.
I will of course not pay till it is done.
It is a big job.

I would say that is reasonable for 2 hardworking men.

It seems pretty good value for money as they will be virtually redoing the garden. How much time and effort would it take you to do the same? Any doubts? As them for some local references and look at their gardens.

I’d just go ahead.

Bear in mind the cost incurred for removing the green waste. My local authority charges just under £100 for a van load.

Blimey that’s a lot of money if you ve already bought the plants but everyone else seems to think it’s good so I obviously live with a different level of money to use

Sounds good to me, especially as you sort of know them and their work.

That’s about right but I’ve found someone recommended by my friend and he’s much cheaper

Sounds good to me.

The quote sounds good to me.
They have a living to earn.
It's a lot of money for you to have to find though in order to maintain your garden.

Wish they lived near me. That sounds a tremendously reasonable price.

Seems reasonable enough lucky, you know them and their work, a real positive. The only thing I’d say, I’m sure you’d do this anyway, is to pay nothing until the task is completed and you're happy with the outcome. You’ll feel happier with your. garden when it’s done.

My friend is currently paying £40 an hour for a gardener to tidy her garden and prune shrubs , of which she has quite a few.
Your quote seem a lot to me but apparently it is reasonable, below the going rate.

If there are 2 working an 8 hour day that’s £26.50 an hour each. Another way to look at it is the same as 1 man working 2 days?
A recent thread about the cost of gardeners found quite a few of us are paying more than that for regular maintenance.

As you’ve had them before and they’re good workers, I’d get them booked sharpish.

Sounds like a bargain to me, especially as you know they work hard and do a good job

It’s a lot of work.