How a job works is the sequence, and contact is how a price starts, because the ranges published on this site are not bids. Each service page states a band that matches the work we actually do. The band tells you whether the job is in the hundreds or the thousands. The written quote, after someone has looked at the property, is the number that controls.
The same steps are written once on that process page, and they are the same shape every time. Someone walks the property or looks at what you sent. You get a quote before the work is scheduled. The crew that quoted it does the work. The debris from that work leaves. Nothing on the invoice is a line that was not in the quote.
What the crew measures
Sod is square feet, variety, whether the old lawn has to be hauled off, and whether the sand needs grade or topsoil. The band is $0.85–$1.75 per square foot installed, with rock or mulch beds at $3–$9. The detail is the sod cost guide. Mowing is the lot, the slope, the obstacles, and whether the schedule is weekly or biweekly. Residential visits are $35–$75. Acreage is outside that band. See the mowing cost guide.
A landscape quote measures how much of the yard is in the plan, how mature the plants are, and the square footage. One bed is about $400–$1,200. A full design is $2,500–$8,000 or more. That breakdown is the landscaping cost guide. Hedges are linear feet, height, and whether this visit is a recovery or part of a route, usually $75–$400 or more, in the hedge cost guide.
Tree trimming is height, what the limbs overhang, deadwood, and haul-away: $150–$400 for a small-to-mid tree, and $500–$1,200 or more for a large oak against a roof. Tree removal stays in words on purpose. A small open-yard tree is often a few hundred dollars. A sectional removal near a house runs into several thousand. The stump is an add-on with no published price. Yard debris is $150–$600 by the load, and it is yard material only. Those three are the trimming cost guide, the removal cost guide, and the debris cost guide.
One visit can contain more than one range
A real Saturday is often two or three of the bands at once. The lawn is $35–$75. The hedge along the side is $75–$400 or more. A pile of fronds from that hedge is junk removal at $150–$600 if it is big enough to be its own load, and less interesting if it fits on the truck that was already coming. Sod the following week is $0.85–$1.75 per square foot, and the bed we cut the grass back from is $3–$9 if we are rebuilding it. Those ranges do not collapse into one package price. The written quote lists the work. You can say yes to the mow and no to the bed. You should not have to reverse-engineer a lump sum.
We do not publish a trip fee, a fuel fee, or a weekend multiplier. If distance or access changes the number, it shows up inside the quote you approve, not as a line added after the crew is sweaty. Acreage toward Myakka City is the clearest case: it never borrows the residential mowing band. A small open-yard tree never borrows the "several thousand" end of removal. The crew measures what the service page says it measures, writes it down, and the paper controls. If a county permit applies to a tree, that fee is the county's and it is not folded in. Call or send the photos. The walk, when the job needs one, is free.
Bring the question you actually have. "How much is a yard?" is this whole library. "How much is this front, the hedge on the side, and the oak on the roof?" is a quote. We will use the published bands to tell you, before the walk, which conversation you are in, and we will use the walk to stop using the bands. The paper you get is the price. If we cannot see a stump, a slope, or a gate in the photos, we will say the number is pending those, not invent them. County fees stay on the county's side of the paper. Spray, drains, pavers, cages, and shutters stay off the paper entirely. What remains is the work this crew does, measured, written, and done by the people who measured it. Compare the paper to the bands if you want. Pay the paper, not the band. The band only tells you which conversation you are in before the walk, not the amount due.
What we will not turn a range into
We will not quote a county permit fee as if it were labor. If a tree needs city or county authorization, that fee belongs to the jurisdiction, and the guides for Sarasota, Charlotte, and Manatee point at the official pages. We will not price sod by the pallet, mowing by the hour, or a stump with a number we have not published. We will not board windows or work on pool cages. Those are other trades.
Photos, the address, and a sentence about what you want are enough to start. If the job is a measurement, the walk still happens before the quote is final. Send it through contact. The order of that visit is how a job works.
Frequently asked
Are the prices on the site the price I will pay?
They are ranges. The written quote for your property is the price. The range tells you which band the work usually falls in.
Do you charge a fee to come look?
The on-site quote is free. The number is written before the work is scheduled.
Can you price the job from photos?
Photos are enough to see whether we are the right crew and to narrow the range. A final quote for sod, a grade, or a tree still comes from looking at the property.
Who does the work that was quoted?
The same crew. The quote is not handed to a rotating subcontractor.