Chuck your price in. - My m8 is looking for an anwser

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ilovesettsonmondays
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Post: # 47560Post ilovesettsonmondays

one of my m8s up norf is looking to have 70 two foots laid ,plain grey.bit of digging .two hours he reckons .needs filling in more .so allow a couple more tonne of stone.all in price anyone . i will tell you the crazy price he got in a while.he is based north west

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Post: # 47564Post lutonlagerlout

if he reckons its only 2 hours then he should be done by tea time :laugh:
I get these calls all the time "it will only take you half a day to cut the opening out and get the rsj in"
or "you'll lay 150 slabs in a day,easy"

I gave a bloke my price to cut out and put in an rsj recently ,£650
he decided it was too dear, so him and his brother in law decided to do it
anyway the non-load bearing wall turned out to be load bearing,hes got cracks in his bedroom walls and a 50mm gap under his bedroom door
he asked could i come and "help" them put it right
"yes,but its £850 now,I have got to put right what you 2 have done first"

LLL
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ken
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Post: # 47565Post ken

is it the bit of digging that will take only two hours? or the whole job?
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ilovesettsonmondays
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Post: # 47568Post ilovesettsonmondays

the digging

irishpaving
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Post: # 47571Post irishpaving

The way things are now at the moment i'd say 350 up that way....... well did i win..did i :D
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ken
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Post: # 47573Post ken

£3.50? I'll do it for £3.25!!!
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ilovesettsonmondays
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Post: # 47574Post ilovesettsonmondays

900 all in .remove spoil 2 tonne approx as well

ken
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Post: # 47576Post ken

wow that's cheep !
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ratty
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Post: # 47577Post ratty

I know of a couple of lads round here (preston) who are pricing themselves on jobs at £60 a day at the minute. ??? No wonder its getting harder to get jobs when your competing against prices based on those rates.
Ratty

haha you posted the price as i was typing that. (slow on computers lol)
Always stuck in a hole - just the depth that varies

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Post: # 47578Post irishpaving

is that including the slabs
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ilovesettsonmondays
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Post: # 47581Post ilovesettsonmondays

thats including everything.

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Post: # 47582Post irishpaving

geez send them down south could win loads of work with them prices :D
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lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 47592Post lutonlagerlout

send them back up the M6
we got plenty of liffys and jam rolls here undercutting as it is
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