Are you sub contracting or working privately

[cowgomoo]

Hello everyone out there, are the most of you working for private clients or, like me, sub contracting on sites ?? I am hating it at the moment and just wondered how many people are in my position and do you hate it if you are.
David

 

[enduro]

I did one day site work, never again only work for a couple of developers and a few architects the rest private.

 

[Olz]

Private :20:

 

[LM Ceramics]

now i only do private but i would never rule out returning to site if the money was good

 

[cowgomoo]

The money is my main beef at the moment, we are getting £12 per m2 for 600 x 330 porcelain wall tiles !! Lots of cuts and difficult to get a lot done.

 

[atec]

private, but would not rule out sub contract work

 

[DERBER]

Private only, except for other tradesmen,plumbers, plasterers etc. I aint working for £12 a m2 for nobody........

 

[enduro]

The money is my main beef at the moment, we are getting £12 per m2 for 600 x 330 porcelain wall tiles !! Lots of cuts and difficult to get a lot done.

Christ i wouldn't get out of bed for that money, how do you survive on that money?

 

[tile55]

was working for 12 per mt way back in 93, wouldn't work for anything less than 20 per mt now.
Don't do site work, been there, done that, haven't got the t-shirt.

Private jobs are 90% of my work now.:santa_cheesy:

 

[Perry]

ok on a large floor but not on walls ete

 

[White Room]

Done both but stick to private now, Site work on walls and floor £15m and that was a couple of years ago

 

[doug boardley]

site work mainly, for most part I enjoy it, £30pm, main gripe about domestic is the unexpected after ripping out, will customers be prepared to foot the bill for extras?:gettree:

 

[BDS]

Only do private/domestic,when i give quote in writing i stipulate that any additional/unforseen work will be charged at an extra cost to the customer,and as long as you tell them and pre warn them they are fine,turned up at one job an ensuite to quote,it was bad and customer who had just bought property had agreed it was bad,turned out that a fair bit of the stud work had to be ripped out redone and reboarded opposite side replastered etc etc etc,i love the challenge and that all the different jobs i go to are never the same,different scenario`s etc etc etc,keeps me on my toes and keeps me learning new things every day.:santa_cheesy:

 

[cornish_crofter]

I do private. When I quote I make sure that the customer understands exactly what I'm quoting for.

For example, I quoted to remove and retile around a shower area. I quoted to redo one wall in Aqua Panel before tiling and simply retile the other wall. However when I removed the tiles from the second wall I found that the whole inner leaf was wrecked by some numpty chaising in a whole shower and associated pipework into a 4 inch inner leaf. I couldn't believe it. The previous installer had two stud walls either side that he could have put the shower in! The quickest solution was to overboard with battens and aquapanel.

In addition I had to do loads of extra work including repairing the floor before the tray was installed.

Both of these were extras and the customer reluctantly understood.

 

[tile55]

site work mainly, for most part I enjoy it, £30pm, main gripe about domestic is the unexpected after ripping out, will customers be prepared to foot the bill for extras?:gettree:

WHAT! £30 per mt,. I bet you don't have much competition up your way.:gettree: