How much to charge for DIY?

[Honeyroar]

North west.
Small, tidy yard of 6 horses. Lots of turnout, boggy in winter, but daily turnout on all weather turnout/track system with hay for winter plus one or two days in real fields per week as well.
Large, airy stables.

No school, flat field to school in in. Summer and other schools nearby that can be hired.
Unbelievably good hacking straight off the yard on small quiet lanes, tracks and bridleways. No need to ever use a main road.

£30 per week for stable.

If there’s no stable or school, what’s the other facilities? Is there a secure space for tack and feed? Is there running (hot) water? Any electricity?

It's stables and grazing, a proper yard, nice stables, feed room, storage for some rugs. Electric, running water.

Is there a secure tack room, and is hay and stray included? Not everyone is bothered about an arena if there is good hacking. Personally I'd put decent off road hacking higher up my list than a school, especially if there are local ones to hire.

Each stable has a lockable tack locker, a rug rail and storage for several more rugs in the overhang of the roof. One stable doesn’t have the locker or roof storage but it will have it’s own small tack room at the back of the stable. There’s a shared feed room. Hay and straw won’t be provided but the liveries can share the cost of my hay and straw at cost prices. It’s a particularly good set up for laminitis/Cushings/arthritic horse’s.

The only real negative is the water supply runs out in summer and has to be topped up from a hosepipe from our house daily (probably more often when more horses) and liveries will have to fill up a barrel if they want to wash horses etc. It just means a five minute extra job. The person moving on is well aware of this and has been doing my horses for a while.

I’m thinking between £20 - 25.

Too cheap. I was paying £25 per week at least 10 years ago for much less.

At that was somewhere with no water when it froze in winter and nine when the spring dried up in a hot summer.

And no toilet.

Get local quotes for similar places then go a bit more expensive. You don’t want to be the cheapest yard as the people that attracts are the ones closest to not be able to pay the bill.

What area was that Ursula?

I’ve already agreed who is having the stables, it’s a lady who has worked for us and has been a star while we’ve had some really tough times. I want to change a fair price.

Saddleworth

Oh that’s not too far from here. We don’t have a toilet either, hadn’t even thought about that. It’s just our private yard.

We did diy including hay about 10 years ago and charged £30, but we made our own hay then.

I was joking about the toilet. Well sort of. I’ve only been on a couple of yards that had one.

I would consider not having a toilet as a genuine negative (not that you can do anything about it!), our current yard doesn’t have one and I do miss it as the one before did.

We pay £270 a month for two horses, for that we get 2 large fields with shelters in (they live together and are out 24/7) and a small barn to store stuff in. The yard has electricity, running water, a lunge pen and owners who live on site (a huge bonus) but no arena. If that helps at all!

Sorry I missed that it had boxes. I am an idiot. You’re near enough Manchester to charge £30-35

I'm in the South East, DIY is £30/week. This is for a stable, individual grazing, big outdoor school, small indoor and off road hacking on farm.
Hope that helps

Goodness! These sound so much cheaper than the livery at the place I have lessons. (I don’t have a horse there). It’s £105 per week for DIY, grass/straw/shavings included. The stables are quite small. There is no turnout at all between September and April. For the summer it’s limited to 4 hours per day. There are two indoor schools and 2 outdoor schools. There is no off road hacking —only winding country lanes where people drive like idiots.

We’re in NE Scotland with quite a few livery yards—yet this place is always packed and it’s a wait if you wanted a place.

It’s a nice place, with an excellent owner so perhaps that’s why people stay. If I ever do buy a horse again, I would look elsewhere as the lack of turnout would be a no deal for me.