Paying a day rate
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Sometimes we meet people and we think we are all on the same decent wavelength.
Yeah, we all make that mistake.
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Yeah, we all make that mistake.
We do but not everyone is nice like us
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Maybe a sheltered life. I am always suspicious of trades people. Every time I use them, they prove me right. Hence, I rather DIY to save the hassle.
Job rate with flexi-hours would be perfectly normal, but not day rate.
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I think your right. I can't stand dealing with tradesmen. Most are bad businessmen and poorly skilled.
I was saying to a builder the other, you can tell bad tradesmen “not all” because they can’t cash flow a decent job. They are forever rushing to get paid.
Before I answer that, show me some one who would do 10 hours on a day rate.
Some people just take the pi$s, but the punter should ask before the agreement. But a genuine guy would do a proper say, or say upfront that their “day” is actually part time.
Genuine tradesmen don't work on daily or hourly rate.
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a trader that nips in to a customer, on his way out or home, to do a small job, doesn't charge an hourly rate? A mechanic working on a car for an hour or 2, or 3 or 4 doesn't charge an hourly rate? ok if you say so
They might well make a calculation in their head about how long it's going to take, but any decent tradesman will quote for a job, not the time.
Many times I nipped in to a customer for a quick job, for example changing a tap.
Quoted £60 in those days.
Sometimes I would be in and out in 15 minutes, other times it would take me a lot longer (no isolating valves, no idea where the seized main stopcock is, rusted up threads, etc.)
Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.
On hourly rate on a simple job that becomes complicated, there's a good chance that the "quick nip in" would be transformed into a "next day finish" with a couple of hours added to fetch materials.
The only mechanics who charge by the hour are the main dealers who double and even triple the time required to do a job, as well as the cost of parts. (3 hours to change front discs and pads on a VW passat
)I know you only deal with bodgers, but there's a different world out there.
Call out charge for the job on the way home. So an hour minimum.
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you dont know much, about the motor trade, do youThey might well make a calculation in their head about how long it's going to take, but any decent tradesman will quote for a job, not the time.
Many times I nipped in to a customer for a quick job, for example changing a tap.
Quoted £60 in those days.
Sometimes I would be in and out in 15 minutes, other times it would take me a lot longer (no isolating valves, no idea where the seized main stopcock is, rusted up threads, etc.)
Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.
On hourly rate on a simple job that becomes complicated, there's a good chance that the "quick nip in" would be transformed into a "next day finish" with a couple of hours added to fetch materials.
The only mechanics who charge by the hour are the main dealers who double and even triple the time required to do a job, as well as the cost of parts. (3 hours to change front discs and pads on a VW passat
I know you only deal with bodgers, but there's a different world out there.
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So you charge by an hourly rate, cant be a real trader then according to johnny
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Sometime there are jobs I'd only fo on a day/hourly rate. But they would get a good job done regardless
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