Yeah, good luck with that. I've just put my rates up to the same amount for fixing your beaten up old transit vans.
Life is tough, innit.Oh, like you were only ones that suffered after the crash. I think not. Certainly making up for it now!
Well, you could turn up in someone else's garden with those tools and yet you couldn't charge even £50......its not the turning up that costs - its the experience. Why do you think a garage mechanic charges what they do? Its because most of us DON'T know how to fix the car. Why do you think a GP earns £100K+? Its because they have been trained for 10 years and hold people's lives in their hands. Are you starting to understand now? In a free-market economy, the cost of anything eventually settles down to the figure most people are prepared to pay. If all the plumbers in the UK suddenly say "we're all going to charge £500 a day" then guess what? That's what you'll have to pay (but of course, there are some who would try to under-cut the £500, so the rest might have to drop their prices too, etc etc).Cheers. Perhaps I'm a bit out of touch but I needed a price for a 6m garden wall, approximately 1m high. Concrete footings already poured by the concrete guy, new bricks, sand and cement already on site. One local guy, known to be a decent bricky wanted £200 a day. I just thought that was a bit steep for turning up with a plastic bucket, a couple of trowels and a spirit level.
Nope - there are good jobs and bad jobs
. One local guy, known to be a decent bricky wanted £200 a day.
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