WWYD Cost of a Garden Fence

ArbitraryRandom

GDB2222 said:

ArbitraryRandom said:

GDB2222 said:

So, 8 of everything is say £700, including postcrete. £1k for labour and waste disposal sounds like quite a lot, but I'd certainly expect to pay at least £500 labour, which gives a minimum price for the job of £1200, and £1700 is not outlandish.

If you offered to pay towards it, I fear the neighbour may be hoping for a lot more than £200. However, if you offered, then you must pay something, even if it's only £50.  

Assuming the materials are as quoted above (which google suggests is about right), then around here a skip is c.£300, putting labour at about £700 (ballpark). Two or more blokes for a day that sounds fair enough if not 'cheap'.   

As a bare minimum - If I had agreed to pay half and couldn't now afford it, then I'd think £400 would be the lowest I'd not feel embarrassed about. That covers half the material and 'some' towards labour. 

I have just had a skip, and it cost around £300, as you said. In this case, a skip would not be necessary, perhaps, if the old wire netting fence could just be taken to the dump? But, I agree that that’s an extra cost on top of the time for erecting the fence.

That's something the OP would have to answer - my nan's ex-council house had a wire garden fence on concrete (3ft) posts.