Not getting jobs we quote for.

[jools p]

Don't know whats happening but were not getting re-wires that we quote for anymore. We are in Cornwall, just, and I've just quoted for an empty victorian 3 bed house. Basic re-wire nothing fancy(going to be rented out). £2100. Thats about right aint it. Geezer tells me some guy quoted just under a grand. Whats that about.

If we are going to under cut each other like that because the media are hyping up the recession we are all in trouble.

What you guys think...?

 

[Ross Trician]

Hello chaps,

just to put another angle to this post tho...
(allthogth I do agree with you all)

A friend of mine does kitchens, bathrooms, wetrooms etc, he is an absolute perfectionist, his work is outstanding but he does charge £250+ per day. he is wirth his money but he is tending to get his work from people with money and missing on the every day "working man"

He hasnt had much work for a few months so whilst I was on an extenion job the customer wanted a reputable plasterer, (my friend can do this) so oviously recomended him, I knew what the other guy had quoted and passed on this info. my mate still came in higher than the other guy......???

we then had a discussion on acceptable day rates, my take is that surely if you have no work on at all then a smaller day rates beter than nothing..

so back to the origonal post, maybe the guy has priced at £100p.day..
thats still £500 a week, is this not acceptable?

 

[TPES]

so back to the origonal post, maybe the guy has priced at £100p.day..
thats still £500 a week, is this not acceptable?

A friend of mine earns £100 a day standing at a machine that makes coke cans. He has no qualifications in anything, and he has no real skills.

What separates a fully qualified skilled electrician from a person starting and stopping a machine all day?? (as an example)

you wont see a heart surgeon saying "works abit quiet at the minute... so tell the patient ill charge £100 to change his heart valve"

I think we should all stick to realistic prices based on our skills, knowledge and the years and years spent at college. We can’t carry on undercutting one another with stupidly low prices.

Otherwise we will spend most of the year earning less than a site labourer stacking bricks!!

 

[lister]

Exactly
£100 per day less overheads, van,fuel, insurance, scheme membership, tools ect ect, leaves you with about £70 less tax not including a bit of company profit on the job, i was paying this for second year students not so long ago, stick with sensible prices, i find people more often than not will go for a reccommend even if its not the cheapest quote.

 

[Ross Trician]

do agree with you lister abour the recomendation side...

I set my price for the job at what I want for doing it and stick to the price..I have had as some of the other guys have, put in aprice not got it and then find out who has done it has F?@k>d it up and customer not at all happy...

on the note of costs etc,,,what do you tend to price your day rate at?
I generally look at an invoiced day as £150 for working in the general locality.

 

[WarrenG]

I set my price for the job at what I want for doing it and stick to the price..I have had as some of the other guys have, put in aprice not got it and then find out who has done it has F?@k>d it up and customer not at all happy......

This is usually at the point when they call YOU!

 

[brs73]

i normally look at around 150\160 but then i was standing on a job where tilers and spreads were getting the same. surely we're worth more. i'm in london so the figures are a wee bit inflated compared to elsewhere
we need to know a bit more than them surely
i think a bit of dodgy plastering aint gonna kill anyone .

 

[johnnyb]

A grand, call his bluff matey, he has either nicked a load of gear somewhere or the owners tryin it on with yer.
We have just priced a small job, all it was was 2x D/S in each bedroom, and there was already 1xD/S in each bedroom as it was on a ring, piece of cake, the woman who.s house it was had been quoted 80quid per D/S so she was well pleased at our 45.