Gallardía
Gallardía
Grounds maintenance is not quoted by the loose square metre: it is quoted as a monthly contract, and what drives it is the area, the frequency and how hard it is to get equipment onto the site.
Get your estimate in 2 minutes · Remodelling Cost CalculatorWhen someone asks "how much per metre of lawn?", the right question is usually a different one. The same 2,000 m² plot can cost twice as much or half as much depending on four things no generic rate card can guess.
The total site area is not the area that has to be maintained. A 3,000 m² plot with 1,200 m² built on has 1,800 m² of green, and of that perhaps 400 are banks or edges that need a brushcutter rather than a mower. Effective area is what counts.
This is the heaviest factor. In Panama, with the rainy season running from May to December, grass grows fast. A site that copes with a monthly visit in the dry season needs two or even three in the wet. A fortnightly contract costs more per month than a monthly one, but usually works out cheaper per visit, because the crew works on grass that is under control rather than rescuing scrub.
Can the truck get in? Does equipment have to be carried up stairs? Is the site in Panama City or an hour and a half down the highway? Is there water and power on site? Can work happen in normal hours, or does the building only allow it on Saturdays? All of that turns into man-hours.
Cutting grass is one thing. Maintaining shaped hedges, palms, seasonal flower beds, an irrigation system and pest control is quite another. Define clearly what you expect to find each time the crew leaves.
Quoted separately, because they are one-off by nature: fertilising, turf reseeding, plant health treatment, irrigation installation or repair, and the felling or major pruning of trees, which needs certified equipment and crew.
The usual pattern is a monthly visit in the dry season and fortnightly in the wet. The price is fixed per visit or per month.
Here the contract is annual and on a fixed schedule, because the board needs to budget. Consistency is valued highly: same crew, same day of the week, a report to the administration. It normally covers common areas, car parks and the perimeter.
The requirement that changes everything is industrial safety: crew with protective equipment, induction, insurance and sometimes compliance with the client's own contractor policy. That raises the man-hour rate but it is non-negotiable in any serious plant or warehouse. Gallardía works to that standard.
To give you a firm figure rather than a vague range, we need:
With that we do the site visit, which is free, and give you a contract with the scope in writing. No small print.
It is quoted by contract rather than by list price per square metre, because the price depends on the effective green area, the visit frequency, site access and the type of vegetation. The site visit to quote is free.
Normally cutting and edging the lawn, edging around beds and walls, formative pruning of hedges, weeding, collection and removal of green waste, and final cleaning of pavements. Fertilising, reseeding and pest control are quoted separately.
In the rainy season, from May to December, fortnightly almost always works out better: it costs more per month but less per visit, because the crew keeps the grass under control instead of rescuing tall scrub.
Yes. In condominiums we work to a fixed schedule with reporting to the administration. In companies and warehouses we comply with the client's contractor policy, with equipped crew and insurance.
Yes. We are based in Capira, Panamá Oeste, and serve Panama City, Arraiján, La Chorrera, San Miguelito, Costa del Este, Colón and David.
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