Hedge cutting prices in Suffolk and Norfolk

How hedge cutting is actually priced

A trimmer only touches the hedge for part of the visit. The rest is sheeting down, setting up safe access, clearing arisings and loading them. That is why two hedges of the same length can be quoted very differently.

For a routine garden hedge kept in shape each year, a single visit is usually a couple of hours including the tidy up. A hedge left for three or four seasons takes longer and produces far more waste, so it sits in a different bracket.

• Length and both faces, plus the top
• Finished height and how far it has to come down
• Access for a platform, tripod ladder or tower
• Volume of arisings and where the vehicle can park
• Whether cuttings are taken away or stacked on site

Cheaper choices that still look right

Leaving arisings on site, where you have space for a habitat pile or your own green bin, takes a real cost out of the job.

Booking a repeat cut also lowers the price per visit, because a maintained hedge never reaches the heavy reduction stage again.

What a proper quote should tell you

You should see the finished height and width written down, whether the top is being levelled, who is removing the waste and whether the price covers one face or both.

Send a photo taken from each end of the hedge along with your postcode. That is usually enough for an accurate estimate without a site visit.