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Why Hire a Landscape Architect?: Value-Added Service |
How is this possible when a nursery or landscape offered you a free plan? Even if the designer tells you the plan is free, the time and expense spent to prepare the design is most certainly built into the total project cost--nothing worthwhile is free. And since the plan that designer develops is not competitively bid by other contractors, you have no way of knowing what a truly competitive market price would be for the cost of that installation. As a result, you can and will substantially overpay for the installation itself, in exchange for a poorly designed free plan.
We feel it is far less expensive to hire a landscape architect in the first place, regardless of their design skills, to install any landscape simply because: Competitively bidding a landscape plan will often result in savings in excess of the design and supervision fees. And since we know who the best landscape contractors are and who offers the best prices, the contractors we use often start out 10-20% and sometimes 50-100% cheaper than other landscape contractors. And when they know we are involved with the supervision and coordination of a project, their pricing is generally even more competitive, since they know the project will run smoothly. This "discount" we feel pays for our services alone.
So, what we mean by Value Added Service is the fact that we offer more than just the most creative design services in the area--we can and will design your landscape and have it installed at a lower overall cost than anyone else including a landscaper or a nurseryman.
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