Burlington Oakville What would you charge?

[Snowboy]

I have a friend who lives in Oakville and when we had a dump of snow here this year it was close to a foot of snow they called to get there driveway plowed out. The contractor charged them $70.

The driveway is about 4-5 school buss's wide and about 150' 200' long.

It looks so simple to plow tons of room on the side to plow it off to or push it out across (rural road) the street . The drive is gravel but fairly compacted.

I have a 33" snowblower so it's to time consumeing for me to do.

A little high dont you think? Maybe $50 max i would charge if i had a blade.

[CAMERON SERVICES]

$70 seems like a more than fair price to me, especially considering the amount of snow. Personally I would have charged more.

[Snowboy]

Huh really.. I would have thought it would be easy to clear ya know bingo bango and off you are.. I think the contractor charged them that for the fact we had allot of snow and they had no other choice and he might have thought that he will come up with a high price and scare them off.

[cutntrim]

Definately reasonable. They were lucky to find someone at all on short notice. I would have said, "Thanks, but I don't have time." Had I have had time, I would have said no thanks to gravel. Had I have had time, and it was asphalt, I would have charged $80 from what you describe.

[wyldman]

Sounds fair.I would have charged more as well,for a last minute call in.

[CPSS]

Around here, a regular 2 car driveway goes for $35. That driveway would be at least $70 for a regular customer, probably more for a last minute call.

[Snowboy]

Thanks for your feedback everyone. Looks like they got a deal then.
Since the driveway is gravel could you not just leave the plow a few inches off the drive and plow, or would the snow from underneath the plow make it ride up?

[wyldman]

If the ground is frozen,then you can plow the gravel drive as you would almost any other.If it's not frozen over,and the gravel is loose,then lifting the blade is the way to do it.

A U-edge would also help with the gravel,if it's not frozen.

[cutntrim]

Gravel lots can be done, I simply choose not to do them.