im looking to get my hall done.a friend of a friend was meant to be doing it for £350.thot that was a great price and knew we were gettin a good deal.he took no well tho and couldnt do it.started phoning people out the yellow pages to get a qoute.put £450 quid past as i thot this was enough.just got a quote there for £580!!!is it just me or is that crazy.its a days work tax free cash in your hand.imagine a good few of them per week!
oh and any of yous know any plasteres in ayrshire region that are reasonable give me a shout

 

I would say £160 for a plasterer for a full days work was expensive, in a day you would expect a 5x4Mtr room plastered, how big is your bloody hall for someone to spend 4days on it?!?!?!?!?

 

I think the prices vary with plasterer to plasterer. I had a bedroom done which is about 12ft x 9ft, had the ceiling plasterboarded and walls skimmed. Then had the stair area done which was a straight run up to the first floor with new plasterboard on the lowered ceiling. I paid about £1500 for that about 6 years ago. The lad who done it done a fantastic job so I didnt mind paying out for it.

 

I got to do my whole house soon

 

its the credit crunch dudes, the building trade is first effected and the last to get going, the price reflects this!

 

I'd plaster for £580 a day!

Normally charge £100 per day, gets me work. If there is any

 

about £220 a day for a decent plasterer round here

 

160 is very cheap mate you get what you pay 4 in this world mate ive been plastering 4 26 year mate somedays we earn 500 600 a day price work never get someone in on day rate they willtake the piss 10 million cups of tea

 

sorry mate must have picked me up wrong.the guy that was meant to be doing it for 350 done my dads hall which is the same as mines in one day.took all day but got it done.so that 580 he could probably do it in one day aswell!now thats what i call wages.not paying it tho till i get it done for about 400.it can sit bare until then

 

and that depend on the finish you want a proper finish or a pollish finish

 

About £240 a day in the films for a plasterer.

 

jog on for that sort of money

 

Films have big budgets mate

 

Lol , yes they take the piss for a trade WITHOUT any fucking tools . A bucket , a whisk plus a milk crate to stand on .

 

you have no clue how much tools cost for 1 a good mixing drill 350+ thats without trowels plant

 

ha-ha and twats like you will pay it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-for f-sake

 

Wow, a few days work to cover that.........massive investment

A good plasterer isworth their weight in gold though.

 

thank you mate in my day ive seen too many people say ive a plasterer yea right you no soon as they use there tools if they can

 

i got my bedroom skimed and coavin fited in ma bedroom and coavin fitted in my hall. he dun an a1 job. for £220 if you want his num?

 

yeah thats what i have been paying, he does alot tho in a single day.

 

People who want tradesmen to do work for fuck all piss me off...............

It is this simple.......You cant do it!!!!!

You are paying for the knowledge that this man has to do the job to a good standard.....

It is the people that want to pay fuck all that moan about the job when its done.....

So you wont pay him £580 to do your work as you think he is taking the piss.....as YOU think it will take him a day!!!!

So if he quoted you £400 and it took him a week........Would you offer him more money????????.......Didnt think so.

Its the same in my Trade....Plumbing......... People seem to think..."Oh, is that all you had to do"!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

you are on the ball mate

 

plastering is a horrible job and there is a lot of skill to it.

my old man is a builder and can plaster but he hates it and gets a young lad in who is shit hot.he works for 180 a day but gets a lot done.
he is doing my bathroom next week,my dad did my kitchen to keep costs down but he didnt enjoy it!!!

 

Gets what ya pays for.... We have had 3 ceilings skimmed so far and each one has been done by a different plasterer, for more bucks and each time the finish has been better

 

I do think its well overpriced for the skill IMO but i guess its down to supply and demand as always.

 

How do you mean????

 

I/we pay out plasterer 200 quid day worth every penny. Pay less expect shite work.. Ruins a job bad plastering..

 

i take it you was not happy with the first two plasterers if your good you will be always busy some people wont wait and they c what your getting load of toilet finish is like bloody ballast

 

Why, is there no skill involved? Possibly THE most skilled trade of all the building trade

 

But look how much mechanics can charge per day... if you dont know how to do something you have to pay someone who does, and that pay will no doubt be reflected in the quality of the end product

I wasn't happy with the finish so used different people each time as I had never used one before and had been given no recommendations

 

100% right m8
I fit carpets, vinyls, wood floors etc
Had a phone call last week lady wanted a carpet fitted to a 4m by 3m bedroom, was 8 miles from my place so i told her my min charge inc travel was £40 .

She said it will only take you 1 hour i am willing to pay you £10
Yeah like my van runs on fresh air ffs!

 

Couldnt agree more mate.

What fucks me off is the joe public thinking they have the right to cap builders earnings to what they think is acceptable!

 

All the people moaning about the cost are probably office pen pushers or jobs that dont need skill and manual graft

It REALLY gets my fucking goat.......

It would be like----

Shall i take my car to a PROPER tuner that has years of experience, the proper tools and knows what they are doing to get it mapped for £500

OR

Little Johnny down the road has a laptop and lead that plugs into the ecu and he says he can do it for £80

 

Yep ya right mark. Tony teabag charged me iirc 250 quid just to hook mine up to the pectel monitor or whatever it was regardless of what else happened. He told me 'i can put it on the monitor but as soon as i do its 250' ....if thats the price then thats it...it went on. Same thing......

 

I agree with TIFF but its the same for everything, everyone wants minimum outlay and maximum return.

 

you get what you pay 4 y pay shit you get shit and thats all there is to say on the matter i worked with two irish plasterers they were the dogs bollocks we were together 4 10 years they were mustard

 

Should of gone to Little Johnny........he had a lead for that aswell.....£80

Exactly Lee........You couldnt do it and didnt have the tools......The teabag did and he got your £250....not a problem.

It just seems that the likes of us in the Construction trade understand these things.........

And people wonder why the country is in such a fucking mess........ "Well Mr Tiff, we had a Polish Plumber round ast week and he said he could fit our full heating system for £20.....................We are going with him"

2 weeks later

"And finally on the news tonight................... A familys home has just exploded after an illiegal imigrant fitted a gas boiler into the house as he was cheaper than the guy that has 15 years experience and knows how to do it PROPERLY.............They thought they would save a few quid"

 

Oh god mate it happens all the time. We are always getting undercut. You can tell in the first 2 minutes of going to see a job what the customer is like...you just think ;this one wants it doing for fuck all' and ya know for a fact ya not gonna get it...then a few months go by and you drive past and see the fuckin MESS I always chuckle and think serves ya right!

 

Whats so hard about plastering that makes it worth that amount of money?? There are so many other jobs out there that are far more technical and demanding that dosent pay anywhere near that?

 

pay 400 for a course my mate did 1,i admit he is handy but has done a great job of his house moaned for weeks how sore he was after tho,lol