hi, got to price up a job and the woman said its grant work, never done any grant work before so how does this work???
grant work!
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you just give her a quote as normal.
it is knowing who you are billing that is more important....
it is knowing who you are billing that is more important....
just been round to quote up, the local council is paying and im the first of 2 quotes she's got to get, she told me to put the quote on letter headed paper with name and address on. i imagine if i get the job then the council will pay me?, don't like the sound of that as they might take ages to coff up!, anyone know if this is about right?
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We do a lot of grant work, mainly DFGs.
Council are the best payers you can get, always by BACS and usually in a hurry as they need to get rid of the money or they'll loose it. Can't really give inflated quote as like you said they ask for 2 estimates. Presumably you had to fill in a specification form outlining exactly what was being quoted for? If not then you and the other builder may have different ideas on ow to do the job resulting in wildy different prices.
Council are the best payers you can get, always by BACS and usually in a hurry as they need to get rid of the money or they'll loose it. Can't really give inflated quote as like you said they ask for 2 estimates. Presumably you had to fill in a specification form outlining exactly what was being quoted for? If not then you and the other builder may have different ideas on ow to do the job resulting in wildy different prices.
just quoted up as normal, she seemed happy with the prices but like i said i'm the first of 2 quotes so wait and see, she wants it doing as soon as possible, how long do the council drag there heels over grant work?
Our council are quite quick - normally a couple of weeks. Like I said they usually have a budget to spend with a deadline to spend it so they don't wait around.
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