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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 think some of this is solved by trades breaking quotes into labour vs parts - I've had some very silly quotes through for different work and it's hard to work out if they're pricing themselves out or if I'm asking for an expensive thing.
Best people I've had in have been up front about their day rate and given an estimate of how long it will take and a ballpark for parts - even if it's verbal only before a written quote which encompasses the whole lot.
Dramatic_Hammer
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.