Landscaping Businesses Editing and Proofreading Services

A patio is quoted at four thousand two hundred. The customer accepts, the work starts, and then there is the question of the eleven tonnes of clay that came out of the ground, the reinstatement of the lawn the barrows crossed, the manhole that ended up in the middle of the paving, and the fact that nothing can get down the side passage so everything came through the house. None of that was in the quotation and all of it was foreseeable.

We edit what domestic landscaping and garden businesses produce — quotations and their exclusions, access and spoil removal documentation, site condition and survey notes, planting, turf and aftercare information, drainage and level change documentation, hard landscaping specifications for domestic customers, terms of business and payment stages, weather and seasonal delay communications, guarantee terms on hard and soft landscaping, and maintenance visit descriptions. Our editors work on the exclusions that decide whether a garden job stays at its price.

The quotation's exclusions are where a domestic landscaping job either holds its price or grows, and their failure is a total with a description of the finished garden. A customer reading about a beautiful new patio has not thought about where the old one goes. We write these so the spoil position is stated with the volume and the cost, since eleven tonnes of clay is four skips or six grab loads and it is the single largest hidden cost in domestic landscaping; so the access is described as the contractor found it, with what it means — how far the barrows travel, whether machinery can reach, whether anything comes through the house and what protection is used — because access is what makes two identical patios differ by two thousand pounds; so the reinstatement of what is crossed and stored on is stated explicitly, given that the lawn the materials sat on for three weeks will need work and nobody expects to pay for it twice; so the existing features that constrain the design are named — the manhole, the drain, the tree roots, the fall away from the house — as these produce the changes that feel like the contractor's fault; so the levels and drainage are addressed in terms the customer understands, covering where the water will go and what the fall is; so the weather position is stated as a working assumption with what happens in a wet fortnight; and so the aftercare that determines whether the job still looks good next year is handed over. Quotations written this way finish at the price they started.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including quotations, designs and customer correspondence. We are editors rather than landscapers or drainage advisers, and we offer no view on design, construction or drainage. What we can do is put the foreseeable costs in the quotation.