If you hire a bricklayer to build you a wall, you are not buying bricks. The bricklayer buys the bricks. So they're liable for materials + cost of sourcing materials. The second part of that equation is covered by a small mark-up.
Simple!
So if the price of bricks goes up 10% during the job the brickie will eat that cost?
Nah you usually have in a contract that if there is variables in material the customer will have to take it.
If you purchase one pallet at £100 and another a week later at £110, then sure, pass that onto the customer, costs is costs
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If you hire a bricklayer to build you a wall, you are not buying bricks. The bricklayer buys the bricks. So they're liable for materials + cost of sourcing materials. The second part of that equation is covered by a small mark-up.
Simple!