£2 per meter skimming over plasterboard?

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Just been offered a long term job on commercial premises skimming long runs of plasterboard,thing is i have never worked on price before,always done day rate or hourly.Does £2 a meter sound ok ? This is what i have been offered.cheers si
 
Hello si welcome to the forum how many m2 can you do roughly in a day? then you can figure out whether its a good price or not.
 
niceguysi said:
Just been offered a long term job on commercial premises skimming long runs of plasterboard,thing is i have never worked on price before,always done day rate or hourly.Does £2 a meter sound ok ? This is what i have been offered.cheers si
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If theres false ceilngs goin in and its ready if your decent you could make it pay ive heard of less but then ive heard of more.
 
Long runs you say - but what about the height of the walls? - can make a huge difference on your output mate:RpS_thumbup:
 
It's not great as the guys say, but you only need 100m2 a day and your on a grand a week :RpS_thumbup: easy, welcome to the forum by the the way
 
Good point gibbo it's his first post and may well be seeing what spreads are willing to work for.
 
In all fairness we all want more than £2, preferably £3 to be minimum £2 is a piss take on any one. Its funny the job were on at the moment there were some polaks stripping the wallpaper and there price was nearly as much as ours to skim the bloody house i said to the builder if i would have known i would have stripped the wall paper as well.
 
£4 minimum i thinks a fair price £2 IS TOTALY CRAP,100 meters a day every day you will need to do, and that aint that easy to do mate.
 
If I was battering 100M on per day (which I still can - I think:RpS_wink:)........I'd want a fkin lot more than 200 quid for it, otherwise I'd be thinking someone was abusing my skills.
 
Its a s**t price mate but if your young and fast and it is big areas you can make it pay, what you wanto be worried about is payment terms, 30 days is the norm which normaly goes into 35, if the company are working that cheap there is a good chance they could go under with all your money.
 
Thanks for your answers guys,im in the north west and work is pretty scarce at the minute.I worked at connaughts for a while until they went bust,and have been taping and jointing for a timber frame house company that is about to finish in a week.As i said before never worked on price,my plan is to haggle with the f**k*r,if i dont get anywhere then i will just take it on the chin with the £2 m2.At the end of the day i still have to pay the rent.Thanks guys
 
niceguysi said:
Thanks for your answers guys,im in the north west and work is pretty scarce at the minute.I worked at connaughts for a while until they went bust,and have been taping and jointing for a timber frame house company that is about to finish in a week.As i said before never worked on price,my plan is to haggle with the f**k*r,if i dont get anywhere then i will just take it on the chin with the £2 m2.At the end of the day i still have to pay the rent.Thanks guys
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you sound like a niceguysi :RpS_thumbup:
 
Niceguysi not sure how confident you are at skimming but one is being bent over and having ones arse tickled for 2 quid
 
niceguysi said:
Thanks for your answers guys,im in the north west and work is pretty scarce at the minute.I worked at connaughts for a while until they went bust,and have been taping and jointing for a timber frame house company that is about to finish in a week.As i said before never worked on price,my plan is to haggle with the f**k*r,if i dont get anywhere then i will just take it on the chin with the £2 m2.At the end of the day i still have to pay the rent.Thanks guys
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just give it a crack mate, if its not working out after couple of weeks have a re-think, simple. if you can make a living than stick to it, a living is all most spreads are happy with right now. there aint many putting savings away in this climate thats for sure, not round our way.
 
i agree. if everyone stuck together and said bolloks to 2 quid a metre then no work would get done and they would have to put the prices up,but while theres muppets working there nuts off for s**t money the prices will stay low and they get richer and we get poorer,just say no!!!!!!!!
 
I do stick together mate but most people on here are to scared to do so just to worried about bringing a few quid home to feed the family, that aint whats life about, ile tell you something though as you read this hundreds of kids in Africa are dying because they have no food yet we send millions of pounds worth of aid to corrutpt African countries and it dont go to who needs it.
 
£2 is about the bottom rate from what i'v seen up north (yorkshire area)

try for £2.20 and ask what you get for linear, you want £1.50 at least, that will boost your money up a bit and you should turn £120 out a day without breaking your back.

100m2 a day is very hard work and i dont think i could do it monday to friday.
 
Thanks for all your input guys,it was my first day today on this job.I tried to haggle with him but he wouldnt budge.I managed to get 6 bags of board finish on today and be home for 4.30pm.Im not sure how many meters i have done i didnt measure up.Im not the fastest spread in the world but i am consistent.Thanks again for all your help.Si
 
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Thanks for all your input guys,it was my first day today on this job.I tried to haggle with him but he wouldnt budge.I managed to get 6 bags of board finish on today and be home for 4.30pm.Im not sure how many meters i have done i didnt measure up.Im not the fastest spread in the world but i am consistent.Thanks again for all your help.Si
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Youve done around 60m so theres £120 less 24 for tax maybe something for your holidays oh maybe 2% or 3% for CITB and then maybe 5% for retention then all the rest is your :)
 
My mate has just phoned me and told me to 'one coat' everything? I have always done two coats.Is this a feasible way to get ahead or am i cutting off my nose to spite my boss? How do i go about hitting it in one coat? wont the scrims show through?
 
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