I'm trying to come up with some guestimates for the cost of some odds and sods of building work. I can find out material costs fairly easily but I'm a bit out of touch with labour costs.
So - what sort of amount is one likely to be charged by a builder (or small building company) for labour - in North London?
The work involved is stuff like replacing soffits, exterior decorating, gutter and downpipe replacement, window and door replacements. In all there is probably a few days work.
To restore balance to the world snipped-for-privacy@isbd.co.uk wrote in
48bfa33d$0$523$ snipped-for-privacy@news.gradwell.netA good starting point:
I could roll you out very thin and then you would. ;-)
Thanks, that's exactly the sort of 'hard fact' we need to be able to wave at them. I've actually done some estimates based on a rate of £280/day and have still ended up with cost *way* less than they have charged.
Their real problem is their huge 'overheads' (or what they call overheads) which add 50% to their quoted prices for the various bits of work. (Well another problem was that half the work wasn't actually done but that's a different issue!)
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