Hi,
just had dining/kitchen knock through.
guy is a semi mate I’ve known for a while.
taking the cost of the RSJ aside:
being charged £500 a day for 2 guys
but, they were starting at 10/11 and going about 3 to 3.30
it was close to Xmas and it’s REALLY hard getting builders quickly.
so the total cost is going to be
£3,100 + skip cost (including cost of materials including RSJ)
to:
knock through wall (2.5M gap)
Board up doorway and plaster wall both sides (about 4m2 each side)
Box in and plaster the steel and surrounding walls.
Also said he will do some other bits of rendering outside/ patching things up etc.
to be fair, in terms of the work done it doesn’t seem too extortionate (live in the south)
I’m just getting my knickers in a twist about paying day rates and getting what I would say are just over a half days work - or do builders work shorter days as it’s heavy work/include the time spent picking up materials?
am I being picky or am I getting taken for a ride?
Like I say, if this was quoted as a fixed fee I would take it, but £500 for 2 guys working 4 hours(ish) just seems like easy money
my old man says you can only do one job a day generally and it’s not always a full 7 hours but you need things to dry etc so that’s how it goes, but my wife thinks a full day charge = 7 hours work.
just had dining/kitchen knock through.
guy is a semi mate I’ve known for a while.
taking the cost of the RSJ aside:
being charged £500 a day for 2 guys
but, they were starting at 10/11 and going about 3 to 3.30
it was close to Xmas and it’s REALLY hard getting builders quickly.
so the total cost is going to be
£3,100 + skip cost (including cost of materials including RSJ)
to:
knock through wall (2.5M gap)
Board up doorway and plaster wall both sides (about 4m2 each side)
Box in and plaster the steel and surrounding walls.
Also said he will do some other bits of rendering outside/ patching things up etc.
to be fair, in terms of the work done it doesn’t seem too extortionate (live in the south)
I’m just getting my knickers in a twist about paying day rates and getting what I would say are just over a half days work - or do builders work shorter days as it’s heavy work/include the time spent picking up materials?
am I being picky or am I getting taken for a ride?
Like I say, if this was quoted as a fixed fee I would take it, but £500 for 2 guys working 4 hours(ish) just seems like easy money
my old man says you can only do one job a day generally and it’s not always a full 7 hours but you need things to dry etc so that’s how it goes, but my wife thinks a full day charge = 7 hours work.
