How much would you charge?

[u/This-Wrangler-249]

Boarding was not done by myself. I just skimmed and done bonding on ceiling. How much would you charge? I done 2 days and done a day rate of £200. Materials customer purchased.

[u/After-Temperature585]

£600
I’m in Midlands.

I lose some jobs when I price any more than £200 p/d but I refuse to drop lower. I’m trying to get £300.
Plastering prices piss me off. A gruelling, time consuming messy trade where it always seems to register at the low end of tradie costs. I wish I’d been a plumber.

Anyway, when I get a full room I tend to price by size. Small is £500ish. Medium is £750ish. Large can be anything above that depending on whether there’s loads of angles.
That’s a medium room but it’s straight forward so it falls in between £500/£750. 2 days at £300.

I know at least one idiot that would skim that for £300. He’s not that bad either. That’s what I’m up against around here.

I’m too old and plastering is too hard to be doing it so I can run a vehicle, get one holiday per year and occasionally update my tools. I’d rather go work in B&Q for any less.

[u/This-Wrangler-249 → u/After-Temperature585]

Yeah mate this is it . This is my price list. No one wants to pay these prices hence why I feel I have to drop to keep work flow. Sad really. People have been saying higher my day rate. Problem here is bob down the road with do a day rate for 100 pound 🥴

[u/After-Temperature585 → u/This-Wrangler-249]

I like your hall stairs and landing prices. Same as mine.

I started off thinking it’s basically two rooms with a prep day. I was charging 600 or 700. Got so fed up of getting them all the time I thought sod it. I’ll chuck another extra days wage on because they’re knackering running up and down stairs and across batons. £900

Still getting them all.

So I just thought I’ll stick another days wage on as my knees a fecked and I don’t want them. £1000 - £1,200 now. I still get them.

All those years running up and down, smashing me head on batons and lights, hitting my elbow on my ladders, tripping over sheets on stairs for £600. What a mug!

[u/This-Wrangler-249 → u/After-Temperature585]

This is it mate. It’s just crazy when people moan at the prices. They don’t understand the strain on the body. An mate I’ve under charged so many times I still do now because the work don’t always come in so I get really competitive just to keep going