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exactly, lol. I told them even if I was twice as slow as other workers I am charging £10 per hour! £200 for 29 hours work is like £6.90 per hour. I worked to the point of exhaustion too...

I remember back when I first started out. My very first proper job was to decorate pretty much a whole house, 6 rooms, stripping cardboard insulation, applying lining paper, wallpaper and gloss. I very much undercharged for the job. I think I said something daft like £750 for labour! I...

Just to mention though, I had invoiced the agency for £290, as it took me 29 hours. They are saying I took too long and that they are only paying me £200 for it. It's not really so much about the money for me. It's more about what right. If someone agrees to pay you £10 per hour then they...

You are absolutely right there. I didn't counter in the fact that when working for an agency you lose out on referrals and building up your own client base/reputation. I took like a year out of trade work, as I tried migrating to another country but things got messed up around the time the...

Yeah, like it started out just a leak.. then it turned into a regrouting job.. then it turned into just replacing some of the plasterboard & tiles, then when doing that I saw that more than 60% of one wall had damaged plasterboard, then I needed to build up the wood frame after finding out that...

Thanks for your input. I want to see what everyone else thinks, like how long they would take to complete this job and the amount they would charge the agency etc. so that I can then present this thread to the agency for them to see for themselves. I will mention the amount of time I took too...

Hello, I have recently been taking on repair jobs as a self-employed trader for an estate agency that manages landlords properties. When I started taking on jobs for them I was originally asking for a flat rate of around £20-25 per hour. But then they asked me to work for £10 per hour, which...