Gutter/downpipe cleaning quote

[Deleted User]

4 bed detached plus conservatory plus bay window/garage with guttering on.

£50.

Been quoted £125 from large company but this is fella around the door (wife agreed when I wasnt there!) Normally, I am a bit wary of these sort of people....

Personally, if he'd said £50 I'd have said £30 and settled on £40 maybe.

phill99

So you expect someone to turn up with a ladder, set the ladders up, do all your gutters inc the conservatory etc and you think you should pay him just £40?.

Why don't you get up there and do it and see how long it takes you and then ask yourself if you would do it for that. Sweet mother of god.

brightontraveller

[quote=[Deleted User];discussion/5389900]4 bed detached plus conservatory plus bay window/garage with guttering on.

£50.

Been quoted £125 from large company but this is fella around the door (wife agreed when I wasnt there!) Normally, I am a bit wary of these sort of people....

Personally, if he'd said £50 I'd have said £30 and settled on £40 maybe.[/QUOTE]And he would have said do it yourself :rotfl: Your window cleaner although if your that much of a tight wad you probably don't have one are normally the cheapest option as there at property and likely already have there ladder out

[Deleted User]

phill99 - so you accept the first price anyone gives you then because you feel sorry for them? Do you really think that in this world people dont start off with an inflated price hoping someone is going to be dull enough to pay it?

You must be a used car salemans dream if you pay the first price they say.

brightontraveller - As is is his right. Again, this is the real world. Someone gives you a price, you accept or not. Maybe you offer a lower one. No-one is forced to do anything they don't want.

And I think I'd like to be a tightwad and live in the real world if thats ok.

Reece_

I'd agree with Phill99, as a tradesman myself, I never boost prices up expecting to be haggled with and knocked down, I will always go in at my best price , I like to start things off on the right foot with a client knowing I'm being as competitive as realistically possible. If I'm haggled with I'd generally stand ground and walk away from the job than negotiate because there isn't that wiggle room, perhaps on a big job it could be knocked down and I'd accept it in exchange for a lot of work but I'd never have that ready and added onto the price in the first instant.
I don't need to justify my prices, there's too much competition these days, I know I can easily be undercut on prices, but you generally get what you pay for hence I won't budge on my quotations.
This is also the case for every tradesmen I work with. It's a little insulting and laughable whenever clients try and haggle, nearly as bad as when a customer says " It's ONLY this" or " Should only be half a days work"

Crabman

Are you wanting them to clear all the gutters and remove the rubbish from the site afterwards?

You could cut costs by asking them to only do the gutters you can't access yourself and could ask them to leave the rubbish as you can sweep up and dispose of that if you feel able to.

somethingcorporate

Reece_ wrote: »

It's a little insulting and laughable whenever clients try and haggle, nearly as bad as when a customer says " It's ONLY this" or " Should only be half a days work"

It's insulting when a customer wants a better price?

Perhaps if you're that sensitive you should try a different job. I find it insulting when tradesmen quote rediculously high prices Those ones get shown the door very quickly.

Reece_

I'm not sensitive at all about it, and it rarely happens anyway but when nearly 100% of work is coming in through recommendation, and so clients know the quality of work, I'm not really interested in haggling my prices because a handyman has quoted them half the price but they'd prefer me to the work. Myself and trades that work with/for me price jobs as reasonably as possible, we don't add 10% or whatever so that there's negotiation room as some people may think happens. Obviously there are some that will do just that but it's not as common as people seem to think, quotes that I do will be the same for someone in a tiny flat in a run down area as they are for someone in a high end property with a Bentley outside.
I'm all for getting more than one quote , it's common sense to do so, you'll always get someone cheaper, and if you want a better price then you go for the quote with a "better" price, I personally wouldn't haggle with one company to get that price.