Some glazing and levelling the floor

Johnnylad

Hi,

we’ve been quoted £4100 before vat for a job in out back room (1990s extension).
The extension was built a little lower than the original footprint of our house (and there was some subsidence 20 years ago that our surveys confirmed was fixed) so the floor doors up by about 30mm.
The job quoted was to level off the floor and then cover with modern flooring in a herringbone pattern to roughly match our parquet.
Also one single glazed window that can open along the top and one set of plastic sliding doors into the garden replacing the current 20 year old aluminium ones.
I’m absolutely ignorant when it comes to cost but £4100 seemed very high before tax.
we asked for a breakdown and discovered that £2100 is for labour - 2 labourers for 5 days. This is the part that amazes me. I can’t see how removing doors and a window and making good around it and waiting for some self levelling compounds to dry then laying tongue and groove flooring could take 5 days work for two people? And are labour costs really up to over £200 per person per day? I earned significantly less as a teacher/supply teacher in my previous job?
If anyone is able to give an opinion we’d be really grateful to become less ignorant!
Thanks

Johnnylad

Where is says the floor ‘doors’ up it means slopes! 🤣🤣🤣

TELLIT01

£200 per day is what my brother-in-law charges and he has more work than he can handle.  Many tradespeople are self employed so have to cover themselves for holiday, sickness etc. As a teacher your employer would have costs above and beyond what you earned.

Johnnylad

Thanks that’s helpful. I’m grateful for your knowledge.

I know people deserve good pay and employers have costs - and that builders are a very unique and sought after skill.

I just wish they weren’t becoming so unaffordable!

Any further thoughts on whether 2 large bits of glazing and the flooring work would really take two people 5 whole days would be gratefully received.

greenface2

difficult to even imagine how long a job is going to take . 5 days labour for 2 men doesn't often mean 2 labourer's . I think myself I would allow similar to make sure its done . self levelling floor . you do not say how much or how unlevel it is . laying floor again no size or what system . fitting a slider is a 2 person job . then another frame too . If the jobs done in 5 and youre happy is better than rushed in 3 and unhappy . Dilemma if its done in 3 and you've paid for 5 or if it goes into 6 or 7 would you pay more . I rarely work for day rate . Are the people doing the work on 200 per day or the company employing them . another profit ontop of the wages to be made .    edit to say . Teachers cannot be far off 200 a day before tax