Plastering £6500 for Labour - Am I being ripped off

kaya

this is the worst "look at how big my house is" thread ever

bigdoozer

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

getting 9 ceilings skimmed for £700 cash , biggest room 25ft x 14

benjdr

edit, mistake

mishvw11

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

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

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

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!

Topplasterer

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

Did you wince at the cost when you bought such a big house? Did you wince at the estate agency/legal fees/stamp duty?