Price for 42m of 600 x 400 travertine?

[advancetiling]

Went to price a job last week in Harrogate which was 42m of trav onto a new extension floor.concrete base,flat no real issues. Quoted £900 labour as the guy who was overlooking the project would be supplying materials.Just over £21/m is surely reasonable for travertine(wetcutting,sealing etc)? Anyway,a follow up call revealed we were by far the dearest quote.He told me someone had quoted £300. £7/m Now has it really come to this when people are prepared to do natural stone for £7/m. I bluntly told him hed be lucky to get a poor ceramic tiler for that.

 

[Ian]

That is insane! Who on earth would want to work for that money? And more to the point what is the finished job going to look like!!!!!

 

[DHTiling]

Quite surprised at that for Harrogate.. normally you get very good rates there.. well i do anyway and just have on a job i finished last week there..

Harrogate is a very rich city imo... Leave them to it i say.. even 21 mtr is way to cheap IMO..

 

[White Room]

£7 m2, thats madness..any decoupling going down onto the floor..

 

[Andy Allen]

you might as well go stack shelfs in tesco...

 

[advancetiling]

Mentioned dural decoupling,expansion joints,finish of sealer etc.Basically he was project managing and just taking the Removed on his head be it.Hope he takes the £300 offer and they Removed it up.Thought the same myself Dave about Harrogate.Quite well off round there £21/m was low but thought we could undercut locals with that and still make a wage.To be fair,2 of us would have easily nailed that in a week and id have been been happy with £450 for it.

 

[advancetiling]

Gunna have to start negoiating a rough price/m for these jobs by phone prior to visiting.It was the other side of Yorkshire.Different county.day wasted,diesel and time wasted

 

[Gall.B]

cant quite belive it, surely a project manager has more sense than to go with that price!

 

[jay]

project manager might be doing it

 

[White Room]

That could be interesting Jay:glasses:

 

[jay]

if things are tight over there then the builders always have the option to undercut everyone same happens here when things get slack (normally comes back and bites them)

 

[grumpygrouter]

£300 for 42m2 of trav... :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[doug boardley]

utter madness!! tell the project manager to have a look on here as regards all the work that goes into fixing natural stone. Maybe then he'll realise that your price was far more realistic (but still cheap imo).

 

[Stewart]

I would Probably take this with a pinch of salt, as customers and project managers say ridiculous things like this all the time.
I was told recently that my price was seventy percent dearer than the next quote to mine..... They still contacted me a few weeks later asking me to book them in.

 

[radim]

My mate priced 100 m2 of trav.concete floor quite bad.customer supply all the materials.£30 a sq.m.Boy told him gtf (that is what he really said) he has "tiler" doin it for £ 18.Good luck to him.:yikes::yikes: