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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 1:02 pm
by gidster
hi my first post on here so here goes.
ive been doing groundworks all my life,up until 3yrs ago when we were made redundant from our civils firm.we then joind a lighting and communications firm. after being out of the game for 3 yrs could someone please tell me the going rate for laying road kerbs with machine.the last time i layed kerbs on a price was proberbly 10 years ago,we was a gang of 4 laying 600m a day getting £1.50 a kerb,what is it now?
cheers.
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 1:30 pm
by Pablo
Are you talking labour only or all in including plant for that price.
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 1:46 pm
by gidster
no just laying the kerbs and backing up. my firm will provide the machine.
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 3:56 pm
by lutonlagerlout
welcome to the brew cabin gidster
600m i s a lot of kerbs in a day!
sorry i dont know the current rates but they wont be much if the rest of the building game is anything to go by
LLL
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:16 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
the rates we used to get about 5 years ago was 2.50 a metre on 10x 5. the year after the national bomb scare we was getting 2 quid . so hasnt changed much over the years .id say 4 quid at a very max
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:50 pm
by gidster
id be happy with 4 quid. the last big kerb job we did with the machine we got about 300m down,not every day mind but we wernt on price we was on salary then,i know it sounds strange to be on a salary when you work on the roads but it was a good one and its the way the firm(cemex construction )wanted it.
your right lutonlagerlout 600m is alot of kerbs in a day and belive me we felt it,but the money was worth it even tho we should have charged more.infact i remember on that job(A52) a gang of blokes pulled up in a van and asked us how much we were getting a kerb and my old man told them and they said they were getting 3 quid a kerb and drove off laughing.me and the old man fell out that day:laugh:
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:04 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
you laid beanys much gid
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:03 pm
by gidster
yes mate loads of beany and a few different types aswell.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:12 pm
by gidster
was on a job a few months back,me and this bloke was just diigin 1mx1m post/sign bases out,and i was watching these lads laying the beany bottoms.they put abot 30m in and it was a slight radius then they backed them up and they werent shy with the concrete then they did the same to the front.so next day they put the tops on then try to straighten them up but obviously the bottoms dont budge. 
they looked a right mess,think the lads were eastern european.
whats the price for beanys these days?
they looked a right mess,think the lads were eastern european.