Pricing a job
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Is that all u get down there? How do u survive on that in London thought it was at least double
zolco
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That's all talk, roads are paved with gold within the m25
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@pageys got all the gold buried in his back garden..
zolco
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In all seriousness I think competition much bigger in and around London locals and foreigners plus you got lots of firms coming down from north chasing big money, how it's worth it for them no idea. Roads are crap after 6-6:30 and no way around it. People paying 140-150 for a days work on high end stuff in central London, is a joke. Gardeners earn more money than that.
Been up in Birmingham last week even at 8am the roads were good.
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Pagey
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Supply and demand in London best rate is probably as zolco said 150 at the top end and if you don't like it someone else will do for same or cheaper,unless you are in with good builders who do pay the extra that's what you will get and £3 is generous in London apparently, that's why site work is not for me I'm not fast enough to make that pay
irish_spread
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Site rates are shite in London. A million and one Romanian and Bulgarians scratch coating multi for peanuts. Money is in domestics where people demand quality. Except Asians where cheap cheap is good my friend
Gibbo
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i dont live in london mate
Ye defo cant survive on £3 down London..is there s**t load of work in London or sumat? Baffles me how people live there its a place for fat cats etc
Gibbo
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there is bundles of work at the moment and loads of shite spreads
Pagey
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If you look across London it's nothing but cranes on high rise buildings being done I gave up site work ages ago probably when recession hit and have never gone back I like my domestics I can charge parking ect onto my price,I know you get the ag on domestics but the rates just don't suit me especially as nothing was ever ready and the promise of "day work" to sort all the crap out never comes have a look on line for plastering jobs in London best you will see is 13-14 top end 15 an hour and you can imagine the stoppages some will take can't you
irish_spread
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The money in London is based on property prices, they've doubled in 3 yrs. If you bought your property 5/6 yrs ago you'd probably be ok. Nowadays it's ridiculous. I'm thinking of selling up and buying Yorkshire 
Loads of money in Yorkshire!! Stay off my turf tho lol..The money in London is based on property prices, they've doubled in 3 yrs. If you bought your property 5/6 yrs ago you'd probably be ok. Nowadays it's ridiculous. I'm thinking of selling up and buying Yorkshire
Pagey
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Don't take that unicorn up there with you if you moveThe money in London is based on property prices, they've doubled in 3 yrs. If you bought your property 5/6 yrs ago you'd probably be ok. Nowadays it's ridiculous. I'm thinking of selling up and buying Yorkshire
That's everywhere tho I dnt personally know any other gud spreads apart from lad I work with..as I've said b4 80-90% of spreads are dog s**t and there don't realise it
irish_spread
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I find the Somalian or Sudanese firms the best ones to work for
irish_spread
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zolco
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It's not top end but that's what I hear as a day rate on sites but it can be complete utter bullshit. Domestic is different game, ask Irish
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zolco
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Only reason I see most will vote out is to stop the Syrian and other refugees coming in. People say they don't want eu migrants here to take their trade, on the other hand I don't think that getting commonwealth migrants in who take the highest paid jobs will go down well either but loads here already, but you can't target them cos then you called a racist. As a migrant myself I haven't seen any strong evidence to stay or leave the EU. Only pitfall that only 25% of existing eu migrants will get a working visa rest can pack and leave, but I'm sure there will be a way around it. I never bothered to get uk citizenship but now I'm in the process, takes a year just to get permanent residency as they changed the law last November then I have to have that for a year before applying for citizenship even though I'm a permanent resident for ten years and having worked from day dot and only had 2 months of unemployment between 2 jobs but never claimed anything ever. I'm almost certain that most people will vote leave, if that makes the uk to leave or they will just use it for bargaining with the eu nobody knows
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I'm voting to stay..2 much risk there scaremongering has worked on me..wasnt aimed at u pal u seem a gud bloke id be seething tho if there were aload of Romanians etc under cutting us
zolco
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I have to say your the first one who I heard will vote to stay, even my in-laws voting out lol
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Ye defo staying guna be a close 1 I reckon
stiltwalker
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I think alot of us feel that way now
zolco
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I don't know mate, if it ends up being an out and all goes tits up that will put more pressure on my Mrs to move abroad and have an easy life somewhere on a warmer climate, I'm already packed
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roryston
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Weird really a bloke I do a lot of work for isn't cheap here in Bristol.
when he gets basement conversios and skim downs in London he charges almost 3x sometimes more than a Bristol price?
I.always thought London was good money I get paid almost double on a day rate there plus digs and food.
when he gets basement conversios and skim downs in London he charges almost 3x sometimes more than a Bristol price?
I.always thought London was good money I get paid almost double on a day rate there plus digs and food.