Your opinions please

[PJ Tiling]

Just had a customer I quoted ring me up and completely blast me down the phone calling me a robbing this and that! Not happy with the labour price on the quote I had given him.

I quoted £600 labour to lay Ditra, and 26m2 of roman opus uncalibrated slate, including taking up the original oak flooring.

Is that as outragious as he claims?

 

[Gazzer]

Nope its ok, would you really want to work for someone as bad as that ? Let them pay peanuts and get the monkeys in to tile it.

 

[Stewart]

That's a cheap quote for the amount of work. I would be more than that just for the tiling for this area.

 

[Ian]

I'd snap your hand off if I was him. I wouldn't touch uncalibrated slate for less than £40m2. So thats £1040 defore ditra and removal of old floor!

 

[jolly fix]

think its a bit cheap.i would'nt like to work for someone like that.imaging what they would be like if you started that job,been there many times in the passed,never again..

 

[Rich]

Dont let the fool get to you. That is a good price if you ask me, some people are just bloody idiots. If he didnt like the quote... Dont ask you to do the work, there is never any reason to be rude to people over stuff like that IMO. Pratt.

 

[PJ Tiling]

Thanks chaps, I was a bit shell shocked by his reaction. I put in a cheap price (or so I thought) because I dont have anything in the diary for a few weeks. I've had nothing but pain in tha arse customers the last few weeks........but god I do enjoy this job:8:

 

[Gazzer]

Just to make it clear when I said it was ok , I didnt mean it was a fair price...far too cheap IMO.

 

[DHTiling]

If he phoned me swearing i would have gone back round and chinned him.:mad2: .. Who do some customers think they are FFS..

Tell him to do one if he phones back , Tosser.

 

[nybor62]

if he had rang me , after the day ive had, he would be in the dentists chair

 

[Rich]

I would have given him a flying head butt... :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Dan]

Laying the tiles alone is £520 IMO. Customer would need to buy materials on top though. Then the ditra, then the ripping up the oak and prepping. Christ knows what they'd have called me.

 

[andy-p]

That was a ridiculously good price you quoted that customer and he should have bit the hand off you , i quoted for a kitchen floor today and went in cheap at £380 , customer tells me he has already been quoted £280 , and i'll bet if he shopped around he could knock £100 more off that , its a jungle out there men... :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Spud]

phone him back and tell him you mixed up his quote with someones else and to say to him what a silly sod you have been and apologise for your mistake wait for him to ask what his qoute should have been then say" its £800 " then hang up on the tight fisted cheapskate

 

[Dan]

These £200 jobbis are the jobs we see on the forum in 3 - 6 months time all falling to bits. Stick to your guns, these jobs will always come back around far sooner than they should do.