Pricing Help

[merlecollins]

Hi Vinny and :welcome: to The Arms

I think in your instance it will be just a case of trial and error when learning pricing, unless you can stiplate to your customers an hourly rate and charge that way.

If you try to estimate time to, say, lay a Hardie BB floor and charge a lump sum fixed price for this element you may very well get it wrong the first couple of times, but at least this will give you a more accurate idea of how much to charge - a customer will always be more happy with a fixed price from the off rather than £x per hour which is open to abuse

 

[thevinnyofoz]

Yeah mates rates have been a difficult one for me to deal with. It is so true that tilers are really under rated for what they do, especially when mates rates comes into it.

Thanks for your advice melecollins, the pricing is something of an issue regarding the repairs and ply laying as I have not made any profit from doing them so far ( friends and family, odd work mate ). I just had little idea of what to charge, hourly can be too expencive and a fixed price was difficult to make due to lack of experience. By the way merlecolins your avator picture had me in stitches when i first saw it lol.

In time i'll get an idea for a good price struture, I'm a big fan of getting and giving a bargain ( i'm also an ebay addict ) but I don't want to cheapen the market, it has enough of that already from cowboys.

 

[merlecollins]

By the way merlecolins your avator picture had me in stitches when i first saw it lol.

Thats me when I see a nice big flat wall with nowt to cut around:lol:

 

[thevinnyofoz]

lol :lol:

 

[Time's Ran Out]

lol, nice :smilewinkgrin:. I had a work collegue today ask me to regrout his whole bathroom and floor which was about 20 m2, said he'd give me 20 quid or some beer money ( whatever that means ) ? :lol:.

Tell him to put a 0 on the end or stop taking the p**s.
Unless of course you are a man who likes a drink!:lol:

 

[thevinnyofoz]

Too right or 200 beers ! lol. I really felt like slapping him with the back of my hand when he said 20 quid or some beer money ? Oh and my favorite one at the mo is " no no, not taking the bathroom suite out, can't afford a plumber, can't you just cut around everything " ? I did this twice for two tight family members last year when I finished my course and have vowed to never ever do it again. Nightmare to do and looks crap.