Spon's Estimating Costs Guide To Small Groundworks, Landscaping And Gardening

Spon’s Estimating Costs Guide to Small Groundworks, Landscaping and Gardening Also available from Spon Press Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ Price Book (2008 edition) Hb: 978–0–415–42448–6 Spon’s External Works and Landscape Price Book (2008 edition) Hb: 978–0–415–42444–8 Spon’s Estimating Costs Guide to Finishings: painting and decorating, plastering and tiling (2007 edition) Pb: 978–0–415–43443–0 Spon’s Estimating Costs Guide to Plumbing & Heating (2006 edition) Pb: 978–0–415–38618–0 Spon’s Estimating Costs Guide to Electrical Works (2006 edition) Pb: 978–0–415–38614–2 Spon’s Estimating Costs Guide to Minor Works, Alterations and Repairs to Fire, Flood, Gale and Theft Damage (2006 edition) Pb: 978–0–415–38213–7 Spon’s First Stage Estimating Price Book (2006 edition) Pb: 978–0–415–38619–7 Spon’s House Improvement Price Book (2005 edition) Pb: 978–0–415–37043–1 Information and ordering details For price availability and ordering visit our website www.sponpress.com Alternatively our books are available from all good bookshops. Spon’s Estimating Costs Guide to Small Groundworks, Landscaping and Gardening Second Edition Bryan Spain First published 2005 by Taylor & Francis Second edition published 2008 by Taylor & Francis 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Taylor & Francis 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Taylor & Francis is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2005, 2008 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publisher makes no representation, express or implied, with regard to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any efforts or omissions that may be made. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-93490-3 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0–415–43442–4 Paperback ISBN13: 978–0–415–43442–3 Paperback ISBN10: 0–203–93490–3 eBook ISBN13: 978–0–203–93490–6 eBook Contents Preface vii Introduction ix Standard Method of Measurement/trades links Part One: Unit rates xvii 1 Soft landscaping Soil stabilisation Excavation and filling Seeding and turfing Bare root trees Container grown trees Conifers Shrubs Climbers Herbaceous plants Hedging Bedding plants Maintenance work by hand by machine Sundries 3 3 10 27 36 41 44 55 62 75 84 85 85 87 88 Part Two: Unit rates 91 Hard landscaping Brick walling Masonry Precast concrete Sub-bases Beds and pavings Fencing Drainage 93 100 105 107 108