My husband and I were looking at getting an instant hedge as we are living on a construction site and am keen not to keep having builders looking on our windows. We found a place locally that does instant hedges and the trade price is 126.00 GBP (I have a US keyboard so no pound sign) a linear meter. The installer doesn't know that I know the supply price and he has quoted 250 plus VAT per linear meter. Since when did labour match the price of materials? Is this typical with hedging? He will of course have to dig a trench and install drip lines but the supplier said it would only take a day and a half to put in.