Some of you are vultures

Entertainer

DirectDebacle wrote: »

Funny I couldn't find the £90k a year plumber on here. Maybe the O.N.S. have messed up again.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/best-paid-jobs

They are on around £25485 a year so those of you that have been paying plumbers £200-250 a day should perhaps thinking about joining a money saving site.You would probably receive good advice on how to get your jobs done at realistic prices.:D

I'm sorry but in recent years when you got a quote from a plumber, deducted the materials and vat and actually worked out the time it took for them to do the job, it would always come to more than £200 a day. Some quotes were even higher. There was no way you could find someone for £100 a day. This was across the whole of the South of England.

And it wasn't just plumbers, it was all the other tradesmen as well. Get a quote for a kitchen company and it was always £1000+ to fit- you could get ten different quotes and they would all be at least that. A modest sized kitchen only took a few days to fit, work it out.

I know there were CORGI fees and vans etc but even so, this was very good money.

I've just been faced with a gigantic maintenance bill and I don't see any £100 a day rates there, they are still talking in telephone numbers.

neverdespairgirl

sarkin wrote: »

Maybe if you spent less time posting and more time working, you would have more money or do you not work?

That seems unnecessarily harsh, to me.

neverdespairgirl

tesuhoha wrote: »

We have just funded our daughter through university, paid her rent and fees. She repeated a year so she was there for 4 years and then she failed her degree.

Why did she fail? Took an extra year, and still failed? That seems to me to be taking the p!ss out of her parents, as they paid for everything.

Broken_hearted

One of the main problems you have is two very spoiled children who have drained your resources and achieved nothing. If you had allowed them to stand on their own feet they may have suceeded and you would have been able to put some money away for a rainy day.
you have been through tough times before which should have taught you to prepare for anything.

neas

both children didnt achieve anything? and you paid for both of them?

I left uni 4 years ago.. and some students just didnt care about the career mummy and daddy paid for them.... paid for drugs and booze they consumed every other day... really it was sick... now i can see how mummy and daddy foolishly gave alot for them to have a good few years parting .

wageslave

I am a single parent. This time ten years ago all I had to my name was a small child and a black bag filled with our clothes.
We spent two years in a grotty rented house which no amount of bleach ever got really clean. I watered the milk, stole toilet rolls from work and saved every bloody penny I could get my hands on.
I bought an unmodernised house in a decent street and overpaid the mortgage every month. We made do with a 70's kitchen and the previous owners hideous carpets.
I didn't borrow. It took me a year to save for a new front door.
The brat and I did without whilst the whole world seemed to have money to burn.
Do I have sympathy for those who have ran themselves into debt to finance a lifestyle they neither needed nor could afford?
The quick answer is no.

DirectDebacle

Entertainer wrote: »

I'm sorry but in recent years when you got a quote from a plumber, deducted the materials and vat and actually worked out the time it took for them to do the job, it would always come to more than £200 a day. Some quotes were even higher.
I know there were CORGI fees and vans etc but even so, this was very good money..

Fair enough. Do you mean the whole of the S.E. of England or the whole of the South of England. either way it is not representative of the whole of the U.K.

Even so £200 a day, 5 day week, 48 week year is £48k p.a. Take off income tax, N.I. contributions, public liability insurance, capital cost of buying and replacing tools, advertising, phone calls, accountants fees, fuel, 3-4 hours in the evenings a week pricing jobs, preparing and posting estimates etc what does the £200.00 a day come to then? This assuming that there is no time off for injury/sickness. Not working=no pay.

What is in the mans pocket then. Big difference between what someone charges and what their nett earnings are.
If you are a PAYE employee look at your gross earnings on your pay slip. Then ask your employer what it costs him to employ you. Factor in a proportion for all the other necessities for that business to function add it up and divide by the amount of your contracted hours per week. What does your gross per hour work out at?

It must be awful for you not being able to find a good tradesman for £100 a day. What a rip off.

churchrat

neas wrote: »

both children didnt achieve anything? and you paid for both of them?

I left uni 4 years ago.. and some students just didnt care about the career mummy and daddy paid for them.... paid for drugs and booze they consumed every other day... really it was sick... now i can see how mummy and daddy foolishly gave alot for them to have a good few years parting .

???what???

SingleSue

I didn't think my post was bullying, I was just pointing out the differences between this board and most of the other boards on this site.

Mind you, I suppose it could have come over as criticism which was not intentional...long day, kids christmas party at the special needs nursery I volunteer at and they drove me batty!

caveman38

DirectDebacle wrote: »

Fair enough. Do you mean the whole of the S.E. of England or the whole of the South of England. either way it is not representative of the whole of the U.K.

Even so £200 a day, 5 day week, 48 week year is £48k p.a. Take off income tax, N.I. contributions, public liability insurance, capital cost of buying and replacing tools, advertising, phone calls, accountants fees, fuel, 3-4 hours in the evenings a week pricing jobs, preparing and posting estimates etc what does the £200.00 a day come to then? This assuming that there is no time off for injury/sickness. Not working=no pay.

What is in the mans pocket then. Big difference between what someone charges and what their nett earnings are.
If you are a PAYE employee look at your gross earnings on your pay slip. Then ask your employer what it costs him to employ you. Factor in a proportion for all the other necessities for that business to function add it up and divide by the amount of your contracted hours per week. What does your gross per hour work out at?

It must be awful for you not being able to find a good tradesman for £100 a day. What a rip off.

For a start the argument is that the plumbers / gas fitters in the SE charged more than £200 a day. Two hours ago you dismissed the idea as nonsense on the basis of the web site you quoted.
Now you concede that perhaps they do earn £48K a year (although we maintain it is far above that) but when you take away stoppages they would clear a lot less.
Well it might surprise you but we all pay NI, IR and commute to work and pay fares. The difference is we don't have the good fortune of having a good percentage as paid in hand which avoids stoppages.
Your argument will not wash.