Seems a lot !!! HELP

Clairegoodey

Does this seem right ? seems a lot for labour

MATERIALS… £190
10 x Plasterboard £50
6 x Board Adhesive £60
8 x Multi Finish Plaster £40
2 x Bonding Coat Plaster £20
8 x Skim Beads £20

LABOUR… £700
TOTAL… £890

Price includes taking existing old plaster back to brickwork, and all Bonding, Boarding, Beading and Skimming.
Two days to prep walls ( bonding boarding beading )
Two days for all Skimming.

suisidevw

Obviously highly depends on where you are.... if you're in London, a quality trademan for £175 a day is a deal.

ceredigion

And what do you think the labour should be.

Clairegoodey

We are north West England. I have no idea on how much but it seems extreme 4 days

ceredigion

Don't confuse net and gross.
The plasterer is earning nothing like £175 per day

somethingcorporate

£700 for 4 days work? seems pretty reasonable to me.

Doozergirl

They've not allocated time to taking the plaster back. No comment on how the rubbish is disposed of.

What kind of space is being plastered?

I wouldn't say it was expensive, especially if they need time to strip it as well.

Clairegoodey

They have allocated 2 hours to preping the walls that is taking all the old stuff off it is quite thick too, so yes £175 per day some days I think there will be two of them.

Rachylou1981

I have just had a damp proof course put into my firebreast wall and at the same time, a new opening made for an open fireplace.

The total bill with all materials, labour and VAT was £564 for 2 days work.

I guess £700 sounds fair if they are working for 4 days

Have you shopped around for quotes?

I had 3 quotes: 1 was four times the price of the above, the other was similar to actual quote I went with but he didn't want to do the opening up of fireplace

greenface

6 bags of dot n dab for 10 boards . ? price isn't too bad.

asharon

get 2 more quotes.

I think it looks a fair price though.