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Touchy subject this mate!

Depends on many factors, such as experience, where you are in the country, if you work alone, or with a lab, or 2+1, etc, etc

I assume from your username that you're based in the M33 postcode area (Sale?)

If so, and if you're a one man band doing domestic work, then your day rate aint too far off the average for the area
 
thing is mate, alot of people come on here, say hi in their first post, ask about prices in their second
 
MFW said:
Touchy subject this mate!

Depends on many factors, such as experience, where you are in the country, if you work alone, or with a lab, or 2+1, etc, etc

I assume from your username that you're based in the M33 postcode area (Sale?)

If so, and if you're a one man band doing domestic work, then your day rate aint too far off the average for the area
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yeah i'm in sale and just put it up to 120,we are 2 plasterers but one lad i know round here charges 200 a day :o and gets the work.
 
steve cov said:
thing is mate, alot of people come on here, say hi in their first post, ask about prices in their second
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sorry mate,i been in the game 18 years and i see loads of plasterers doing better than me but i leave them for dust skill wise >:(
 
m33spread said:
steve cov said:
thing is mate, alot of people come on here, say hi in their first post, ask about prices in their second
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sorry mate,i been in the game 18 years and i see loads of plasterers doing better than me but i leave them for dust skill wise >:(
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youvejust answered your own question then mate. ;)
 
Bruce Willis said:
m33spread said:
steve cov said:
thing is mate, alot of people come on here, say hi in their first post, ask about prices in their second
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sorry mate,i been in the game 18 years and i see loads of plasterers doing better than me but i leave them for dust skill wise >:(
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youvejust answered your own question then mate. ;)
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the best ones get sh1t on?? ???
 
I know a lad who charges £80 a day, plus mats. He's only young but not a bad spread and definitely worth more than £80 a day. He was asking me a while ago why I get more work than he does even though I charge more than he does.

It's like the Stella adverts "Reassuringly expensive"

There's definitely an element of truth in it I reckon
 
yeah but how long are they arround for? every week im seeing new vans around the area. never see them again though. they last a few weeks and realise its not as good as the course people told them. thats why you always find a job lot of tools on ebay
 
steve cov said:
yeah but how long are they arround for? every week im seeing new vans around the area. never see them again though. they last a few weeks and realise its not as good as the course people told them. thats why you always find a job lot of tools on ebay
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i employed a lad last year and give him 100 a day same as me then ,and he's a site plasterer(very fast lack of quality) before he worked with me he took home 1500 after tax per week before the resession he only lasted a week with me.the job i put him on i got the only complaints i've ever had,just seems wrong.
 
Bruce Willis said:
I know how you feel, site and domestic are miles apart. He still should have done a good job though.
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the m**g was doing one coat of skim on old walls ;D and on a bull nose put a skim bead half way up to patch up.i'm lucky i got payed off the customer.
 
i get about 100 a day but a lad who i take on some jobs refuses to work for less than 120 and his work is rather questionable to say the least
 
i wouldnt wanna be on a day rate...
no incentive.... i'd rather get in and flash it out and get gone than sit around watching the clock...
only thing that gets me going is the thought that the quicker its done, the sooner I can dissappear...
pay me 100 quid a day and youll just about get a ceiling done...
price work im on it... jobs done... i down the pub...
 
m33spread said:
what do you recon is the average?

i charge £120, is that about right?
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listen 120m is ok but most peple charge 150 to 180 depending on custermer and what ur doin for instance we been chargin a guy 150 a daY FOR 2WEEKS BUT WE ARE RENDERING SKIMMIM TACKIN COVIN SO WE ARE COVERIN A FEW BASES EVEN DOIN STUD WALLS AND PUTTIN UP BEAMS IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE CUSTERMER I MEAN LAST W CHARGED A WOMEN 185 A DAY CASH FOR SAND AND CEMENT AND SMIM AND COVE IN CHELSA AND SHE WAS OK WITH THAT AFTER SH SEEN THE WORK NO FILLIN OR SANDIN ETC
 
steve cov said:
yeah but how long are they arround, every week im seeing new Brassis around the area. never see them again they last a few weeks and realise its not as good as the clients told them. thats why you always find a cheep b### job, i like big tools
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:o
 
m33spread said:
steve cov said:
yeah but how long are they arround for? every week im seeing new vans around the area. never see them again though. they last a few weeks and realise its not as good as the course people told them. thats why you always find a job lot of tools on ebay
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i employed a lad last year and give him 100 a day same as me then ,and he's a site plasterer(very fast lack of quality) before he worked with me he took home 1500 after tax per week before the resession he only lasted a week with me.the job i put him on i got the only complaints i've ever had,just seems wrong.
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Not being funny but site plasterers are not always crap he sounds like he was turd anyway, a bad spread is bad no matter where he works. 99.9% of my work is commercial but i can still cut the mustard on someones house i garantee
 
Whatever you do don't tell the customer your day rate, unless that's what you both agree on to do the job.
Otherwise keep it to yourself, because if you say to the customer I charge £150 a day & it'll take me 3 days that's £450, but if you work your balls off to finish it in 2 days the customer will be like I only gotta pay you £300 now.
Plus if you have an early day you won't feel like you've gotta stay so they get their moneys worth out of you.
Give them a price keep your rates to youself ;)
 
correct on both counts...
to be able to work a site you need site experience, same goes for the domestic side... theyre 2 different ball games and need a different approach

and you just dont charge domestic customers 'day rate'... day rate is what is offered to you for ongoing work, or, its just a round (adjustable depending on the job) figure you use to work prices out...
 
Nisus said:
Whatever you do don't tell the customer your day rate, unless that's what you both agree on to do the job.
Otherwise keep it to yourself, because if you say to the customer I charge £150 a day & it'll take me 3 days that's £450, but if you work your balls off to finish it in 2 days the customer will be like I only gotta pay you £300 now.
Plus if you have an early day you won't feel like you've gotta stay so they get their moneys worth out of you.
Give them a price keep your rates to youself ;)
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Plus youd prob loose the job coz a customer wont want to give you more than they earn themselves!
 
another good point... I hate that feeling I get when I give someone the price for what amounts to a days work and its about their weekly wage down tesco's... well, sort of.. ;D
 
I hate shelf stackin , might sign on a course and learn how to do this job proper like, do you think a weeks long enough and do i really kneed one of them c.s.c.s thingy's
 
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