Free Tree Service 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 tree service contractor estimate
These are the lines a tree service job usually needs. They are already in the template and in the generator, so you edit rather than start from an empty page.
- Tree removal, 60 ft oak
- Bucket truck and crew, per day
- Stump grinding below grade
- Limb chipping and debris haul
- Traffic control and permit
Delete what does not apply, add what does. The point is that a customer looking at an itemized tree service estimate can see where the money went, which is what stops the argument before it starts.
Tree work is priced per tree or by the crew day, with the bucket truck, stump grinding and debris haul on separate lines because a customer may want one without the others.
What to settle before the Tree Service estimate goes out
Spell out what is included: the stump, the grindings, the wood and the cleanup. The safety standard for this work is ANSI Z133, and a job beside a road can need traffic control and a permit, which is why that line is on the template.
Related pages for Tree Service work
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