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Plastering £6500 for Labour - Am I being ripped off

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  • kaya
    kaya Posts: 2,465 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    this is the worst "look at how big my house is" thread ever
  • bigdoozer
    bigdoozer Posts: 135 Forumite
    Square feet??????? What century are you from, Brownbake???? You wants them Cubits and Drummels or Frabliks and chiklings..... to estimate wattle and daub matey. :-)
  • wii_man1
    wii_man1 Posts: 154 Forumite
    getting 9 ceilings skimmed for £700 cash , biggest room 25ft x 14
  • benjdr
    benjdr Posts: 219 Forumite
    edited 19 May 2009 at 12:52PM
    edit, mistake
  • mishvw11
    mishvw11 Posts: 8 Forumite
    I am doing up a whole house in Northants and am paying one plasterer with 35 yrs experience £250 per room cash! It takes him 2 days per room.
    We have done all the stud work and are putting up plasterboard oursleves so he is just skimming all walls and ceilings.
    The rooms are v.large as it is a 1930's property.
  • Cknocker
    Cknocker Posts: 235 Forumite
    Don't shout too loudly about paying cash for crying out loud! Yes it happens, no its not legal!
    The fact you have two quotes and that is the cheaper of the two should be telling you something, if you're still unsure get another, how you expect anyone here to tell you otherwise is beyond me without seeing the job!
  • EliteHeat
    EliteHeat Posts: 1,382 Forumite
    Cknocker wrote: »
    Don't shout too loudly about paying cash for crying out loud! Yes it happens, no its not legal!

    Can you explain why it is illegal to pay cash?
  • Cknocker
    Cknocker Posts: 235 Forumite
    Because generally when someone says cash, they mean cash wothout a reciept, i.e. untraceable and without the taxman knowing.

    A trader taking cash in ahnd is liable to be taken to the cleaners by the taxman, normally fro more than he ever had tax free!

    As I said it happens, but it's not legal, how you manage it is up to you, just don't shout it all over the internet!
  • Your talking out your backside, I take whatever the client hands over, its totaly irrelevant to me as it all gets put through the books, people like you coming out with comments like that give tradesmen a bad name
  • Pssst
    Pssst Posts: 4,803 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    Did you wince at the cost when you bought such a big house? Did you wince at the estate agency/legal fees/stamp duty?
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