Only one workman of two turned up and wants paying for both!

Mojisola

fulmer wrote: »

I booked two workmen to do a job for £100 each per day for three days.

Risteard wrote: »

Not necessarily. It may just have allowed for contingencies. Either way, it was accepted.

Exactly - £100 a day each for three days - not £600 for the job regardless of how many workers turn up.

Grenage

As others have said, it's entirely down to what you paid for. If you were paying a day rate for two people then you'd have cause to complain.


If you were given a job price, that may or may not have included two people - less so.

TELLIT01

If the job was quoted as 2 men for 3 days, total £600 but only one turned up and did it in the same time I would only expect to pay half the money. If one man took 6 days I would be complaining the the work hadn't been done in 3 days.

Risteard

Mojisola wrote: »

Exactly - £100 a day each for three days - not £600 for the job regardless of how many workers turn up.

What you have written is incorrect in every respect.

Risteard

TELLIT01 wrote: »

If the job was quoted as 2 men for 3 days, total £600 but only one turned up and did it in the same time I would only expect to pay half the money. If one man took 6 days I would be complaining the the work hadn't been done in 3 days.

Presumably whilst this might have been the basis for the quotation presented to the OP, the actual quotation was for the job being undertaken and not for the logistics of it. In which case, the price was accepted for the job regardless of how many man-hours it actually took.

kinger101

Risteard wrote: »

Presumably whilst this might have been the basis for the quotation presented to the OP, the actual quotation was for the job being undertaken and not for the logistics of it. In which case, the price was accepted for the job regardless of how many man-hours it actually took.

How do you know what the quotation was for? You were not there.

missile

Calpol4life wrote: »

..That said, even at £200 a day, for a bloke, or any trade/skill is cheap....

I would not agree :A

Risteard

kinger101 wrote: »

How do you know what the quotation was for? You were not there.

Neither were you.

But the reality is that that is how quotations work.

scd3scd4

You could have just told him no thanks, I am not happy and be done with it.


On a side note, how is he suggesting he needed 48 man hours but can now do the job in 24??
Or is the job going to take 6 days?




Ohh and I disagree it does not matter as long as the job is completed.......if the job is not to the same standard due to less hours but for the same price!

shortcrust

The only way I'd be paying one man £600 for the job would be if it took him six days. There wouldn't be an issue if they'd simply quoted £600 for the job, but they didn't do that. For whatever reason they dressed it up with a daily rate per worker and that's their lookout. You can't just double that rate, assuming it does only take him three days.

That said, I think you needed to sort it out before work started. By letting him start you've effectively accepted his terms.