Molecatching Charges

[Outofnowhere 93]

My prices are on my website have a look, click my link to it and tell me what you think i only came into the 21st century a few months ago my wife designed it and did all the work.

 

almost all my mole work is domestic but there are some very large propertys in oxfordshire and i have been to everything from the smallest council house to huge country houses with dozens of acres, to be honest i`m not to bothered about doing large farm clearance as i would think that at the price farmers want to pay i`m better off doing domestic work anyway.

 

 

Nice website TM she's done you proud

[miller 18]

All this £10 a mole on farms and golf courses etc is crap! what you should offer is an all year round contract so they know if there are moles appearing you will be on them the next time you come on say your monthly visit.

Which part of Shropshire mate?

 

I've heard that a bloke near Cleobury Mortimer (South East Shrophire) charges £10 a mole.

Edited October 10, 2010 by miller

[Shrophunter 7]

All this £10 a mole on farms and golf courses etc is crap! what you should offer is an all year round contract so they know if there are moles appearing you will be on them the next time you come on say your monthly visit.

Which part of Shropshire mate?

 

I've heard that a bloke near Cleobury Mortimer (South East Shrophire) charges £10 a mole.

That may work in some locations but the golf courses I work would rather I came out as soon as they have a problem. When molehills appear around the 10th tee they don't want me to sort them out on my next monthly visit !

[mickymolecatcher 3]

my customers also prefer me to be there pronto when they notice a fresh mole hill, the longer it is left, the more damage they do.

[nod 285]

All this £10 a mole on farms and golf courses etc is crap! what you should offer is an all year round contract so they know if there are moles appearing you will be on them the next time you come on say your monthly visit.

Which part of Shropshire mate?

 

I've heard that a bloke near Cleobury Mortimer (South East Shrophire) charges £10 a mole.

That may work in some locations but the golf courses I work would rather I came out as soon as they have a problem. When molehills appear around the 10th tee they don't want me to sort them out on my next monthly visit !

 

agree on this lets say u come on your monthly visit on a monday no moles to be seen, on wednesday the green keeper starts cutting and notices moley working his way to the green with a tournament on saturday the mole has to be gone, but you have used ur monthly visit he aint going to wait till you come next month is he

[Steve Albano 21]

We do mole and gopher control on about 20 golf courses, and every proposal I write up, I include a line saying that we are willing to make extra service calls at no extra charge to take care of "emergency" situations, such as a mole heading towards a green. I can't remember the last time any of the course superintendents called to report an emergency and ask us to make an extra trip.

 

If you do an ongoing service, and have the mole population under good control, those situations rarely come up.

 

I agree that an ongoing service and a monthly fee are the way to go on golf courses and other large commercial jobs. Even most of our residential accounts are done on an ongoing basis with annual contracts now.

[John Keswick 119]

We do mole and gopher control on about 20 golf courses, and every proposal I write up, I include a line saying that we are willing to make extra service calls at no extra charge to take care of "emergency" situations, such as a mole heading towards a green. I can't remember the last time any of the course superintendents called to report an emergency and ask us to make an extra trip.

 

If you do an ongoing service, and have the mole population under good control, those situations rarely come up.

 

I agree that an ongoing service and a monthly fee are the way to go on golf courses and other large commercial jobs. Even most of our residential accounts are done on an ongoing basis with annual contracts now.

 

I wish i could charge an annual contract for domestic customers. But, the truth of the matter around here is: thier just too bloody tight.

 

They want the mole to magicly dissapear for a tenner. When i explain that i will have to make AT LEAST two visits to thier property, probably three just be sure AND comapare this with the cost of other services (for example: a wasp nest treatment @ £40 for 10 minutes work) they soon see that this can be a costly business.

I dont charge any less than £ to trap a mole and most of my work is garden jobs, one, sometimes two moles.

I do the cemetry's for slightly more, but they are normally overun!

 

Its not just the time spent setting and checking traps, its the travelling time and fuel.

[miller 18]

Common sense, the green keeper has your number for such an occasion.its not cost efective to keep popping in every day to see if a mole has appeared,Don't tell me you check any traps you put down every day!as it is not the law too

All this £10 a mole on farms and golf courses etc is crap! what you should offer is an all year round contract so they know if there are moles appearing you will be on them the next time you come on say your monthly visit.

Which part of Shropshire mate?

 

I've heard that a bloke near Cleobury Mortimer (South East Shrophire) charges £10 a mole.

That may work in some locations but the golf courses I work would rather I came out as soon as they have a problem. When molehills appear around the 10th tee they don't want me to sort them out on my next monthly visit !

 

agree on this lets say u come on your monthly visit on a monday no moles to be seen, on wednesday the green keeper starts cutting and notices moley working his way to the green with a tournament on saturday the mole has to be gone, but you have used ur monthly visit he aint going to wait till you come next month is he

[Shrophunter 7]

Common sense, the green keeper has your number for such an occasion.its not cost efective to keep popping in every day to see if a mole has appeared,Don't tell me you check any traps you put down every day!as it is not the law too

All this £10 a mole on farms and golf courses etc is crap! what you should offer is an all year round contract so they know if there are moles appearing you will be on them the next time you come on say your monthly visit.

Which part of Shropshire mate?

 

I've heard that a bloke near Cleobury Mortimer (South East Shrophire) charges £10 a mole.

That may work in some locations but the golf courses I work would rather I came out as soon as they have a problem. When molehills appear around the 10th tee they don't want me to sort them out on my next monthly visit !

 

agree on this lets say u come on your monthly visit on a monday no moles to be seen, on wednesday the green keeper starts cutting and notices moley working his way to the green with a tournament on saturday the mole has to be gone, but you have used ur monthly visit he aint going to wait till you come next month is he

What are you on about fella ??

I don't pop in every day to see if a mole has appeared, I wait for a call from the greenkeeper and I do check my traps every day. If other molecatchers are happy to do contracts on golf courses then good for them. I don't. Contracts work well on farms where you are keeping numbers in check. On the courses I work there aren't that many moles now, so its straightforward to target individual moles as they appear.

[primrose 4]

i have a job to do in a garden thirty miles round trip would i charge one way or for the round trip

[TOMO 26,237]

i have a job to do in a garden thirty miles round trip would i charge one way or for the round trip

 

if your trapping the mole , then you will need to make at least 2 visits , and more likly 3 or possibly 4,