builders rate

[Ted Lo]

Hi all

I wonder if someone can advise the ballpark day rate for a builder these days. Someone quotes me £150 per day in the Oxfordshire. Is this within norm?

Regards

pl

[EricP]

Local jobbing builder charges £20 per hour. (Bristol)

[malc]

Absolutely no help here but a friend in Bristol has two ladies digging his veg patch. They are charging £2 per hour for both of them!

[EricP]

LOL They must be in a 60's timewarp!

[The Medway Handyman]

Not expensive - same as I charge.

[malc]

My friend did tell them they were under charging but as they're starting out in business I guess they want to operate under slave conditions or something.

[malc]

Thinking about it, that sounds about right. £20 per hour, 7.5 hour day. Try getting your car fixed for that rate!

[Gazz]

I was just thinking that, the local Iveco dealer wanted 75 quid to set up the tracking on my motorhome, i asked why so much, they said it was cos they like to spend half an hour ensuring it's spot on,

so they charge £150 an hour labour, and i thought people were joking when they claimed iveco charged 2 grand labour to replace the front torsion bar bushes due to the ammount of work needed to dismantle everything to get at them,

[ARWadsworth]

But you do some work.

Builders just have a mobile phone address book full of brickies, joiners, plasterers, sparkies etc that they know, employ a couple of labourers and do not actually do any work, except fetching bits from Builders merchants.

Adam