Help with pricing

[simmy08]

Hi. I have just completed this job.Customers im happy to add were very pleased. It is polished marble which i graded from 12 to 22mm in thickness.
The Doorsteps had to be stripped of existing tiles, flattened, little render and primed.
The edges were polished, chamfer edge polished and sealed twice.
The grooves were done with the d24000 (what a cutter!!)

I had never worked with marble before but knew all the theory. I just want to know what other guys would be charging for this kind of work as my price was out but partly because i was real slow taking my time to make a job of it.
Thanks

 

[doug boardley]

is it two different jobs?

 

[faithhealer]

nice job, would have taken me a week ! like the grooves

 

[doug boardley]

is it two different jobs?

of course it's two different set of steps, how long did each one take you?

 

[SandyFloor]

Tidy job that. I hate external jobs. You're just too dependant on the weather.

 

[simmy08]

thanks yeh it took me a week so should be a nice job.Yeh its the same house,front and back steps.well i priced £400 andh tought it would take me 3.5 days. i would have been spot on with that guesstimate but i forgot to include polishing edges, dismantle and reiinstall the handrail and time to size the stone. i also had to buy a 8mm marcrist to drill the marble for handrial as i as paranoid i would crack using a hammer dril and masonary bit.
yeh its probably the most challenging job to date i have done in terms of putting theory to practice,putting up with untrustworthy customers and just general hardness for me.
so what woud everyone else be charging?

 

[Andy Allen]

if it took a week to do, i would have charged £750 plus materials

 

[simmy08]

thats the kind of money id like to be making now that i know i can do it

 

[White Room]

Just learn by your pricing error for next time..........

Looks good though