Fencing

[Mark B]

Roughly can anyone give me an idea of how much should i be charging per day labour for fencing work, whats the average day rate, im near glasgow if thts any help. Cheers Mark

[lutonlagerlout]

£80 per day 30 miles north of london
but TBH fencing is normally done on price round here
i charge £30 per lineal metre for timber and £60 for concrete gravel boards and concrete posts and the posh panels
it aint as cheap as it was but materials for the latter cost £25 a lineal metre
hope this helps
LLL

[Ted]

I charge £100 a panel (6') to supply and fit a fence. If it is only a few panels I may charge a little more and if it is loads of panels a little less. I buy the cheapest fencing possible. If the client wants posh stuff, the price goes up. I also charge more if I have to dismantle and dispose of an old fence.

[Stuarty]

Over here in the Edinburgh side the average cost for standard timber fencing is around £30 - £35 a linear metre.

[Mark B]

cheers guys, btw is that labour stuarty?

[Stuarty]

thats supply and fit - prices do tend to vary slightly when we use prefab panels. On the smaller jobs we do it to a day rate rather than meterage

[lutonlagerlout]

the bottom line is ,you have to look at each job as a separate item
if the fence is in a back garden with little or no access and on a 1:4 slope obviously it will be dearer than a front fence on the flat
i priced one last week 30 m long on a gradient ,when i told the punter £1800 he looked at me like he had just caught me in bed with his missus
so now he is going to do it himself with his brother,we all know whats going to happen don't we?? lol
cheers LLL

[Ted]

My price is a London one and is based on a back garden of a terraced house with no side access. I think I should probably be charging £120 a panel now.

Obviously it would be cheaper if it was a front garden or if I could get my van up close to where I am working.

[Dave_L]

haha - don't ya just love DIY fencing projects.

Metposts in abundance! :p :laugh:

[lutonlagerlout]

just out of curiousity, has anyone ever had any sucess with met posts??
i know they claim over 5 gazillion sold but surely most of these are in landfill by now
regards LLL

[Tony McC]

I had a very heated debate with a Met-Post sales twonk at a trade show some years ago. It might have been Interbuild or the Homebuilder's bash at the NEC, but the clown in question simply would not admit that there are thousands of situations where Met-Posts are totally unsuitable.

I can be a bit like a dog with a bone when I latch on to a sales twonk that is bullshitting me, so I pushed and pushed and pushed and had him describe just how he'd use a Met-Post in poorly-compacted, made-up ground. After convincing him that the ground would never be stable enough to support a 1.8m fence unless the posts went down by at least 600mm, his solution was to dig a hole to the required depth, fill it with concrete and then install the Met-Post into the fresh concrete and allow it to set.

He was mentally incapable of understanding that the Met-Post was completely superfluous and that it would be a better construction to set the fence post into all that concrete and spend the money that would have been used to buy a Met-Post on summat more useful, like a chocolate tea-pot.

Never saw him again after that. I wonder if he still works for them? :p

[Stuarty]

Nope, ive done a couple of jobs with them and had to return to dig the damn things out and put in posts the usual way. Hate them! I have sent quite a few of them away in skips in my time spent doing this heh

[glyn1206]

I used a metpost once for a punters birdtable,The damn thing was swaying like a c#ck in a sock!
Seriously though the only time I had any modicum of success was using the sort that you bolt down,but in that situation it was only one in a run so I rather felt that the rest of the fencing was holding it up & it wasn't all that exposed to the prevailing wind.
I did see the bloke across the road use some and went straight through the water pipe!

[Dave_L]

I did see the bloke across the road use some and went straight through the water pipe!

I'd like to have seen that! :laugh: