Free Landscaping Estimate Template
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An estimate is a written price you are offering before the work starts. The two things that decide whether it wins the job are how clearly it describes the scope and how obviously it expires.
What a contractor estimate should contain
- Your business details and license number where required
- The customer name and the job address
- An estimate number and the date you wrote it
- A valid until date, because prices move and you should not be held to a number from six months ago
- Scope in plain language, line by line, so the customer knows what is and is not included
- What is explicitly excluded, which is the line that prevents most disputes
- Subtotal, tax, any deposit required to book the work, and the total
What goes on a landscaping contractor estimate
These are the lines a landscaping job usually needs. They are already in the template and in the generator, so you edit rather than start from an empty page.
- Site clearing and grading
- Topsoil and sod, 2,000 sq ft
- Irrigation zone install
- Mulch and bed edging
- Cleanup and haul away
Delete what does not apply, add what does. The point is that a customer looking at an itemized landscaping estimate can see where the money went, which is what stops the argument before it starts.
Landscaping mixes units. Sod goes by the square foot and the pallet, bulk mulch and topsoil by the cubic yard delivered on a truck, and plants by the each, so every line needs its unit written next to the quantity.
What to settle before the Landscaping estimate goes out
Anything that digs, irrigation trenches included, needs the 811 call first. Say who makes it, and that the locate marks only the public lines: irrigation, yard lighting and anything past the meter belong to the owner and have to be located privately.
Related pages for Landscaping work
- Sod calculator
- Mulch and topsoil calculator
- Paver calculator
- Mulch coverage chart
- Underground utilities toolbox talk
- Heat illness toolbox talk
The rules that hold for every trade
These are on the contractor estimate template page, with the questions people ask about the template:
- Estimate versus quote versus bid
- Write an exclusions line, it wins arguments before they start
- Put an expiry on every price you send