Is this a good price?

moggins

I urgently need some carpentry work done on my house, it's loads of little jobs that I just can't do myself with having the kids around so a carpenter has just come round to quote for them.

He's said he charges £120 for the day and he'll work round the house doing as many jobs as he can fit in during that day, we already have most of the materials and he's said that what he has to buy won't cost more than £20.

I've never used a carpenter before so can anyone tell me if this is a good price or not please?

Freebie_Hunter_2

It depends how many hours he/she considers 'a day'. Clarify that and work out how much an hour it is. Call to different carpenters to find out their hourly rate and judge by that.

I would pay per job than by the hour. That way they can't 'slack off' and take 2 hours doing a 1 hour job.

cattie

The price sounds pretty good if he is going to put in the hours for a proper days work. I had a carpenter in to do a few jobs for me last Summer & though he had priced each job individually, it worked out at a daily rate of around £150 over the week for around 6.5-7hrs work a day.

moggins

He's starting at 9am and finishing around 5 presumably allowing an hour for lunch break.

He's an older guy with 40 years carpentry experience behind him so I guess what would take my DIY skills all day to accomplish will probably take him about an hour

It seemed to make more sense with all the small jobs that I need done to hire someone this way than to get someone in for each separate job. Or does it?

Party_Animal

The rate is fine, its the quality that's important. I prefer to have a fixed price but you could always give him a try and see whether you think you're getting your money's worth. I'd want to know a bit more first; where's he come from? Has he done work for someone you know.

moggins

I must admit I haven't checked him out but he was talking through the jobs with me, sorting out cheaper ways I could fix things, and his skills have got to be better than my DIY skills anyway

I'll give him a shot and if he's any good I'll get him back to do the rest, he seems to be pretty popular if his work diary is anything to go by (I sneaked a craft peek when he was fitting us in )