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There's also the value factor.
Our boarder with a neighbour is mostly brick wall. For whatever reason the last section of a couple of meters down our alleyway isn't there and has a wooden panel. I won't bore everyone with why, but at some point it needs replacing.
We had a couple of quotes. One for ~£1k another for >£2k.
Regardless of whether that's a fair value for the amount of work the brickie is going to do, that is shit VFM for us. If we just took a number between the two that's a nice holiday for us, decent laptop, almost two month's nursery fees....
....or we could have a bit of a brick wall down the side of the house.
Frankly it's one of those classic shit jobs. Next doors paving needs lifting, a bit of a concrete slab that is cheekily on our land needs cutting back, then digging out, earth/hardcore/fence removed, reinforced section built, wall built, pointed, capped, little bit of backfilling, next doors paving relaid, tidy up, disposal.
But again, in terms of our use of the house it's still just a small section of wall down our alleyway.
hugo7-
Totally but people value factor is very warped i think. People think £1800 is expensive for a boiler but will not think twice about going out and spending £200 on a saturday night or £500 a month on a motor.
Its very weird out there right now, but it is what it is and rn im at the stage as is my old man if we get the job great if not who gives a fuck.
konastab01
I would say I dont mind small job but in terms of what you've labeled its fairly accurate but the problem is that people dont realise the actual costs involved and wee small jobs and they sometimes see it as expensive. The way we work they jobs is that we virtually have all the stuff on the van to do the job as going away for bits is time wasting and fuckin lengthening out the job. I wanna be in, job done, customer happy and away but your right that bigger jobs have less fucking about and often are more money without headache, but another thing id say is that sometimes you have to manage the customers expectations, like the flooring howard is talking about. I think even a joiner will struggle to put it that floor down the way it is now as they floors aren't meant to be took up and put back down from experience.
I know you've said you dont really like doing the smaller jobs as you can have problems getting paid, I find usually people always have money and never question the pricing when it comes to paying. I think thats a different situation altogether and you have to be more on the "thats the price" pay up.