quote for pointing plus misc work

MarcoM

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:31 pm Post Subject: quote

Hi,

Got this quote for 1200 pounds cash in hand:

rake + repoint a wall to the side of our semi. Not the whole wall as half of it is under a garage roof. Approxmately 20 sq m in total to repoint. He will use a scaffold tower (which he owns, no hiring involved) for the bit of the wall which is not accessible from the garage roof.

take off old paint from 4m long by 10cm wide roof flashing to the front of the house and repaint black. This is at first floor level accessible via ladder.

Re paint c iron soil pipe (again he can reach this full height from garage roof without scaffold or indeed tower).

clean all gutters round the perimeter (x3 elevations round the house perimeter).

He estimated this at 5 to 7 days work for two of them.

does this price seem ok?

North West area FYI.

many thanks

thornbridge

I'm no builder but that seems a lot to me. I know re pointing is slow work but the other jobs seem relatively easy to me. The cash in hand bit is a bit risky too.
If i were you i would get 3 or 4 quotes to get a idea of how close his quote is

macduf

Pointing per metre is around £20 to £25, you should have to pay so much for the scaffold he has had to buy it at some stage but the quote may be on the high side.