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Went to see a job 1 medium bedroom. Patches on lath walls ceiling has had chases put in inside cupboard to skim , picture rale on to make it harder! Needs sand and cement on patches as some are on outside wall. Basically a 2 day job with all that prep I'd go in at £550 easy, he said what 4 cash I said £440 he said what! 2 other guys went in at £250 and he will spend no more than £300! who the hell works for this crap money I have a £50 a day lab to pay plus about £60 materials so come on £300!
 
since when did you start demanding £200 a day and to be honest sounds like a good days work, why couldnt you use bonding on the chases i know you said a outside wall but so what why should you need a labourer for the second day? You can charge what you want its upto you but lets say the other plasterers are on their own £300 for a days work or even 2 days isnt that bad.
 
Seems like a lot of money[ your first quote] for one room.Three hundred quid is about the norm round here for a day and a halfs work for one man.
 
300-350 sounds about right, theres a guy advertising on gumtree in our local area for plastering, he states on the ad that he is a timeserved tradesman and he charges £40 for an 8 hour day. WTF!! :o :o :o
 
Nah u dint see it pain in the ass carpets to protect funny angels ect yeah ok a day and a half but still have to pay a lab the whole day and would I would have got about £185 a day and yeah that a nice day rate but some jobs go like that, I'm normally 220 a day for me and my lab on domestics,thing is we do a good job and are very tidy with having a lab keeping it clean, one guy would be threr ages and then would spend half the time cleaning the place, I guess a normal over skim would be about £400
 
oasis said:
Nah u dint see it pain in the ass carpets to protect funny angels ect yeah ok a day and a half but still have to pay a lab the whole day and would I would have got about £185 a day and yeah that a nice day rate but some jobs go like that, I'm normally 220 a day for me and my lab on domestics,thing is we do a good job and are very tidy with having a lab keeping it clean, one guy would be threr ages and then would spend half the time cleaning the place, I guess a normal over skim would be about £400

Ya see thats one of the problems of having a lab they are worth their weight and make the job a lot easier but having to quote for them can lose you work coz you cant compete, im on a job at the mo i had a lad in today to help me over board a ceiling and unload the van, clean up, rip down some coving and a coat of pva. I will finish it myself this week then get him in on the next job for the heavy lifting or maybe on the last day to put gear away and set up the next job.Ive gone in at a tight price just to get it, now if i was mad busy i could of afforded to price for the lab and probably a bit more but might of lost the job but it wouldnt of mattered or on the other hand they could of bit my hand off. Its always a gamble and i dont work for nothing so will go in at a decent rate and if i want more i work twice as hard then the day rate doubles :)
 
oasis said:
Nah u dint see it pain in the ass carpets to protect funny angels ect yeah ok a day and a half but still have to pay a lab the whole day and would I would have got about £185 a day and yeah that a nice day rate but some jobs go like that, I'm normally 220 a day for me and my lab on domestics,thing is we do a good job and are very tidy with having a lab keeping it clean, one guy would be threr ages and then would spend half the time cleaning the place, I guess a normal over skim would be about £400
u win some and u lose some ,dont worry about it boy ;)
 
Oh any how flyn I fort u were in2 big stuff like huge spray work or large site stuff? Not domestic stuff?
 
oasis said:
Oh any how flyn I fort u were in2 big stuff like huge spray work or large site stuff? Not domestic stuff?

Spray stuff lol ive been slaggin machines off for years i do everything and anything, domestic and site but to be honest ive not been on site for a while the arse has fell out of it for now so concentrate on domestic, more satisfaction, gratification and something different everytime.
 
flynnyman said:
oasis said:
Oh any how flyn I fort u were in2 big stuff like huge spray work or large site stuff? Not domestic stuff?

Spray stuff lol ive been slaggin machines off for years i do everything and anything, domestic and site but to be honest ive not been on site for a while the arse has fell out of it for now so concentrate on domestic, more satisfaction, gratification and something different everytime.
and better money,u can rip people off its so easy :D
 
I said before I once had a website enquiry about a door handle hole in a plaster boarded wall! I did it for £50! Then as I left the young guy asked if he has to colour it in !haha
 
i overcut someone the other day haha. i gave a price and so did someone else. i was dearer and the customer asked me to match the other bloke, i said no and still got the job. happy days
 
You get em oasis.
Undercutters will always be around.
I priced a job today reskim whole room 4x5 m2 i priced £250,i work on my own.
Lady told me they had a cheaper quote of £150.
days work 5 bags of finish a drop of pva and handfull of beads.
the guys working for £100 quid ish ,she told me he said 1.5 - 2 days work for him.
 
skimmin2day said:
You get em oasis.
Undercutters will always be around.
I priced a job today reskim whole room 4x5 m2 i priced £250,i work on my own.
Lady told me they had a cheaper quote of £150.
days work 5 bags of finish a drop of pva and handfull of beads.
the guys working for £100 quid ish ,she told me he said 1.5 - 2 days work for him.
WHATTTTT love to see that job when its done.fifty quid a day absolute bonkers aint it. :o
 
hollybank said:
skimmin2day said:
You get em oasis.
Undercutters will always be around.
I priced a job today reskim whole room 4x5 m2 i priced £250,i work on my own.
Lady told me they had a cheaper quote of £150.
days work 5 bags of finish a drop of pva and handfull of beads.
the guys working for £100 quid ish ,she told me he said 1.5 - 2 days work for him.
WHATTTTT love to see that job when its done.fifty quid a day absolute bonkers aint it. :o

i was workin for a spark i know in his house and in 1 day i plastered his living room and coved it. charged him 130. he was mixing, i finished at 3 and it was cash so was happy. hadnt heard from him for a while, saw his dad on a job i was on and he said oh he got the hump with you and hes got his mate in for 50 a day now.
 
steve cov said:
hollybank said:
skimmin2day said:
You get em oasis.
Undercutters will always be around.
I priced a job today reskim whole room 4x5 m2 i priced £250,i work on my own.
Lady told me they had a cheaper quote of £150.
days work 5 bags of finish a drop of pva and handfull of beads.
the guys working for £100 quid ish ,she told me he said 1.5 - 2 days work for him.
WHATTTTT love to see that job when its done.fifty quid a day absolute bonkers aint it. :o

i was workin for a spark i know in his house and in 1 day i plastered his living room and coved it. charged him 130. he was mixing, i finished at 3 and it was cash so was happy. hadnt heard from him for a while, saw his dad on a job i was on and he said oh he got the hump with you and hes got his mate in for 50 a day now.

So thats your chances of cheap electrics out the window, lesson learnt.
 
Lesson ;)there steve is dont do any work for people you know.Friend from school is having a load of work done,he is always moaning about the builder how slow he is,probably paying him peanuts.If he asks me to do any work for him i shall decline him and say im too busy.
 
hollybank said:
Lesson ;)there steve is dont do any work for people you know.Friend from school is having a load of work done,he is always moaning about the builder how slow he is,probably paying him peanuts.If he asks me to do any work for him i shall decline him and say im too busy.

well i stupidly thought that because hes a spark he'd sort me out when i get my first house. obviously not. he rang me yesterday and asked me to go and finish it off. because ive got nothing on i said i would. he offered me 100, it was only a small mix and its only down the road so i did it. his grandad then said when giving me the money 'you dont take any prisoners do you' i said well you see what you get when you pay cheap. on the upside the kitchen fitter was there and asked if i was the plasterer. explained i'd only done the living room etc. and he said give me your number ill get you loads of work. see how that goes.
 
theres a local firm advertising in the paper round here. ..average room 12ft x 12ft 10 ft high labour and mats for 190..... 3 days later theres an ad below him saying the same for 180. fair enuff when they get there it will be ''ahh y see mrs this is extra etc etc'' thing is i got approached by a plumbing firm who stopped using him cos he was '' too rough to tile over '' his angles were that bad . ive been quiet for weeks now, just scratching round , did aflat roof last week cos theres nowt about.
 
Did some work a few years ago for a guy who married my cousin,when i asked for some money after two weeks for the work i had completed,i got it shoved in my hand reluctantly by his father who proceded to say i was rather expensive.I then told the labourer to get everything on the van and clear the site and told them to f**k off as i shut the door.Was asked by the customer to come back and finish the job as his father was out off line to say that,but guess what i never did ,and my cus has now split up with the prick.
 
oasis said:
Went to see a job 1 medium bedroom. Patches on lath walls ceiling has had chases put in inside cupboard to skim , picture rale on to make it harder! Needs sand and cement on patches as some are on outside wall. Basically a 2 day job with all that prep I'd go in at £550 easy, he said what 4 cash I said £440 he said what! 2 other guys went in at £250 and he will spend no more than £300! who the hell works for this crap money I have a £50 a day lab to pay plus about £60 materials so come on £300!
f**k IT GET WHAT U CAN THEY DONT UNDER STAND WE RETIRE BEFORE THEY DO COS OF THE AMOUNT OF s**t WE PUT OUR BODY THROUGHOVER THE YEARS TO EARN A LIVIN
 
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