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Invoiced the customer for £4970 at 11am and she had it paid by 11.30am and messaged me to say she was delighted with the job. Took 1 plasterer and 1 labourer 4 days to re-sheet and skim both rooms, they had started by trying to SBR the original walls and skim but it just started falling off so...

Our guys are through the books at £200 a day which gives them pension, holiday pay, sick pay etc. We charge £40 an hour for tradesmen and £30 an hour for labourers', well except for our sparky who we only charge £35 an hour for because he is the slowest man alive :) We are booked out solid for...

I would of just sent the labourer down to prep everything himself, but our plasterer does not drive and the job is almost 1hr 30 mins travel time not including a ferry crossing, so everywhere he goes our labourer goes :( I guess we will just have to carry on with the day rate for this job and...

Sorry if I am not explaining myself very well, my dad was our plasterer, he would usually skim a room in a day no problem, he is now 70 and retired, our new plasterer would be lucky to skim a ceiling and 1 wall in the same time. My brothers think we should get rid of him, pack in the plastering...

Scottish Highlands is pretty cheap, rent a 3 bedroom house for less than £400 a month. All our guys have left other firms because we pay higher hourly rates pay them an extra 10 hrs a week that they don't actually have to work in appreciation for doing a good job, provide them all with vans...

The fireplace wall is getting sheeted and the Labourer does a pretty decent job prepping the other walls. Its our plasterer that decides if walls need sheeted or not, he is the one that has decided to use 2 coats multi-finish.

We are in the Scottish Highlands the going rate here for most trades is about £18.50 an hour, usually our guys only work 37 hrs a week which often includes 2 hrs traveling a day but we pay them 50 hrs a week. Our Labourer is a wee grafter probably deserves more than £15 an hour tbh. The Labourer...

Need a bit of advice, we are a small building firm and get quite a lot of skimming jobs, usually small domestic jobs like skimming a living room or kitchen, sometimes an entire house. We are just not sure about our plasterer, his work is usually decent but he just seems unbelievably slow. We pay...