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Cheapest Houses since 1999
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I'm a S/E brickie. Everything I do is done on a price. I hate daywork.
I started in 2001. Was getting back then £230 per 1000 bricks and £7.20 per m2 blockwork. Was only 21 back then!
The best rates we got were £320/1000 and £9.25/m2. This was in 2005.
We are now getting £275/1000 and £8/m2.
This is site work. Any private work and you can add a huge % on top of those, although I don't really do any these days. I like my weekends too much
£15000 a year? Must try harder than that. Even on those 2001 prices we'd clear that by miles.
Oh working on the new builds, wouldnt mind doing a bit of that but seeing as there are few and far between new build sites around at the moment its just not happening.
You are correct about daywork, nobody likes it but if thats all thats there, then you take it or you dont earn.
If your a grafter and the work is there its not a problem to clear a good wage week in week out on a price.
If you live in the s/e then you didnt do well with your prices in 2005 because all the 2+1s i know were getting more than that in liverpool.0 -
Oh working on the new builds, wouldnt mind doing a bit of that but seeing as there are few and far between new build sites around at the moment its just not happening.
You are correct about daywork, nobody likes it but if thats all thats there, then you take it or you dont earn.
If your a grafter and the work is there its not a problem to clear a good wage week in week out on a price.
If you live in the s/e then you didnt do well with your prices in 2005 because all the 2+1s i know were getting more than that in liverpool.
All the work is/was in North/Norfolk. All the sites were paying around the same rates in that area.
It's amazing how things change. Can remember in 2001, there would be a good 15 plots to start at a time, each would have a sold sign on before they had been started!
These days it's 95% HA.0 -
Cheapest since 1999, what a load of BS. They're on a par with early 2004, up my way anyway.0
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