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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:14 pm
by 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

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:38 pm
by 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

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:44 pm
by ken
is it the bit of digging that will take only two hours? or the whole job?

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:51 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
the digging

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:23 pm
by irishpaving
The way things are now at the moment i'd say 350 up that way....... well did i win..did i :D

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:29 pm
by ken
£3.50? I'll do it for £3.25!!!

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:41 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
900 all in .remove spoil 2 tonne approx as well

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:43 pm
by ken
wow that's cheep !

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:44 pm
by 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)

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:44 pm
by irishpaving
is that including the slabs

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:48 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
thats including everything.

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:01 pm
by irishpaving
geez send them down south could win loads of work with them prices :D

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:23 am
by lutonlagerlout
send them back up the M6
we got plenty of liffys and jam rolls here undercutting as it is
LLL