another am i to expensive question

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hi,lads,i almost gave a couple a heartattack. i quoted 700 quid for d+d & skimming a hallway,toilet & porch. there was 50m2. nearly 200 quid on mats. the lady said she had another quote for 450? was i way off themark?
 
materials is 200 quid. that leaves 100 a day at 5 days. if thats too expensive then i've lost all hope in this job
 
Dont sound dear to me but as I have said before there is alot of idiots willing to work for peanuts at present. For him to do that in 3 days it would only be 80 a day. But I know that people are willing to work for 50 or even less at the minute
 
2 days max, its only 50m2, providing its all back to wall and ready to go...
still 500 at 150 a day though...
 
i really don't know how to go price wise at the moment it seems most jobs i go for lately i'm 30% or more over and i'm charging at least 30% less than i want to,not adding anything on materials.
i just try to subtley tell them that they will get a high quality finish from me and seed a little doubt about the lottery of cheap plasterers,(that bite me on the arse if i ever come out the cheapest! :-[).
 
hi,lads,it's a narrow as fcuk downstairs hall & toilet n porch. forgot to say the lady said she was refusing to pay that kinda money & that included the other guy who quoted 450. when i hear you lads saying it's a 2 day job,i probably am quoting to high.
 
yeah i didnt realise it was just the hallway. 2 days, 3 max. although its hard to say without seeing it.
 
Chris W said:
2 days max, its only 50m2, providing its all back to wall and ready to go...
still 500 at 150 a day though...
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Fuc.ked if i could dab a hallway,toilet and porch and then skim it on my own in 2 days
 
richardbrown said:
Chris W said:
2 days max, its only 50m2, providing its all back to wall and ready to go...
still 500 at 150 a day though...
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Fuc.ked if i could dab a hallway,toilet and porch and then skim it on my own in 2 days
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I think your ruled out rich as he did say the hallway was narrow! :P
 
Write her and her job off. She's a time-waster!! She obviously doesn't have a clue about plasterwork prices.
 
richardbrown said:
Chris W said:
2 days max, its only 50m2, providing its all back to wall and ready to go...
still 500 at 150 a day though...
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Fuc.ked if i could dab a hallway,toilet and porch and then skim it on my own in 2 days
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good day dabbing out first day, provided yer boards are ready to go etc..
20 boards, 10 bags of dabbing..
then 2nd day just keep throwing it on be done easy...
new board innit...

still, if theres radiators to worry about, matching up to anything, access, delivery probs etc... add another day.. then take a labourer... ;D

still a good cheap price at 500 quid, needs must in a recession and all that... I'd do it for that tomorrow...

not too long ago i could have got 500 quid just for skimming em, easy, but now....
 
Does it have to be D & D? Can you not use Betakontakt & skim? .........especially as it's a narrow hallway .......£100 for gear and whatever you want for Labour (always witha capital L ;) ) ........2 days easy.
 
Pricing is a bit mental at the best of times we just put a price on a job 10 ceilings on artex a bathroom totally skimmed a bit of d,n,d and 4 lengths of cove labour only £800 which is cheap as its for a mate and he came back saying that he is only willing to pay £700 cheeky bastar,d :o then on a job today i was chatting to this chippy and he said he just got a bit of plastering done in his house and the price was cheap aparently it was 2 walls and he was finished by 11 £240 :o just cant make sense of this world :-\
 
don't know about anyone else but i'me not lowering my prices at all

hard enough job already without working for f..k all


kept my nerve with a couple of jobs where they rang back and said it was more than they thought but we still got them...


whatever you do in business there's always someone else who will do/sell it cheaper
 
Everyone smells a rat if ur too cheap. Sometimes good to be reassuringly expensive . If some geezer offered to plaster for me for 40 quid a day I wud be watcjin him like a hawk
 
People price there work for wages and if you are self employed and running your own business you can not dothat , you have to make some sort of profit on your jobs small or large whatever , but the trouble is its not a level playing field and everyone is out for there self making up prices as they go a long and cutting each others throats , take some of the lads on here like brownie , warrior and sprayit to mention just a few blokes running a profession businesses how can they complete against someone like carping ??? ???
 
its getting worse if you ask me,theres getting more and more chancers about.how can i compete as a business with over heads ie two vans,yard 2-3 full time staff etcetc against a one man band working out of back of a van for 80 quid a day,i cant so i dont try to be honest.all depends what type of work your going after, and people you want to work for.some people will still pay for quality.
 
It's terrible out there plastering firms are screwing sunbird greedy Cadmus lol ............I give ip ficking ipod
 
i think its all down to a combination of skill, experience and the effort and expense you prepared to put in to find work...
its a layer cake innit...
those with just themselves and a van can only make enough money for a small amount of publicity...
those with 6 lads and 3 vans should be able to put the same percentage of their turnover into advertising but it should be more, therefore more work etc..
ive just about given up with the whole idea cos 1) im p'ssed off with killing myself for work and 2) when youve been up and down in the game for a while it gets to you eventually...

personally i think the moneys gone out of the game, its had its cash cow phase, now its a dead dog.... time was when you could make a killing from plastering, now everyones cottoned onto it, just like small welding/fabrication companies jumped on the mig welder and upvc manufacturers figured out how to fit windows using nothing but complete idiots, its much harder to make money due to the competition involved...

when you first start out youre running round like a headless chicken, and you think 'as long as i keep this up im laffin', then the buzz wears off, the missus starts havin a pop constantly and it gets harder...

soon as someone invents the idiot proof plastering machine were all f'cked.... ::)
 
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