Canadain potatoes!!!
What would you expect to pay to have someone dig up your driveway (30ft long by 12 feet wide 4 inch deep) and relay it.
Pull up 30 2foot square slabs, prepare the ground an relay them.
Just interested in what some of you guys would expect to pay for this
Jonno
effendi
You'll get undercut by gypsies. They have no overheads so you can't compete with them.
Fecking gypsies.
I plan on beating him to death with his kids. I'll use them as a bludgeon on his face. -
--Good for them if they survive.
Canadain potatoes!!!
lol and what overheads do I have?
No I know how much people have quoted the guy but I've always wondered what people with no knowledge or little knowledge of these things would think something like that costs.
I used to undercut everyone and in a lot of cases do myself out of a fair bit of money, but thats cos I always felt guilty about it, especially old people. I been to jobs that have taken me maybe 1 day or less and people have been quoted several hundred quid for it when I've walked away with maybe £80 - £100.
I've also had people shocked by the cost of materials.
Just curious is all, the thought crossed my mind as I was working out cubic meterage into tonnage so I know how much stuff we want.
Jonno
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There are no gypsies where I live so I would expect to pay £1750..
(which is why I haven't had it done)
Fecking gypsies.
EDIT: Sorry, to clarify, this was for digging up and taking away the old tarmac, preparing the surface and laying with little bricks in a criss-cross pattern...
Last edited by Barbarossa; 09-08-2005 at 10:49 AM.
Canadain potatoes!!!
£1750??
For what exactly? if you don't mind me asking.
Jonno
mostly harmless
Sorry, to clarify, this was for digging up and taking away the old tarmac, preparing the surface and laying with little bricks in a criss-cross pattern...Originally Posted by Jon L. Obscene
£1750??
For what exactly? if you don't mind me asking.
Jonno
effendi
More than they do. Gypsies steal their materials.
I plan on beating him to death with his kids. I'll use them as a bludgeon on his face. -
--Good for them if they survive.
Canadain potatoes!!!
Ah brickweaving, yeah little bit different. I take it that included materials?
Hmmm thats not a bad price.
Basing your drive on 30x12 I'd say £50 for sand, £160 for skip.......not sure how much bricks are altho depends on what you have but I would imagine about 65p each so you're paying probably a grand for labour, 2 guys 3-4 days, £100 each per day.
Yeah maybe a little high in retrospect. But thats complete guessing.
Where abouts are you? in a city , town or village?
Jonno
Canadain potatoes!!!
More than they do. Gypsies steal their materials.
Who says I don'tI'm unemployed, I can legally do that now
Jonno
mostly harmless
Satellite town in South East England...Ah brickweaving, yeah little bit different. I take it that included materials?
Hmmm thats not a bad price.
Basing your drive on 30x12 I'd say £50 for sand, £160 for skip.......not sure how much bricks are altho depends on what you have but I would imagine about 65p each so you're paying probably a grand for labour, 2 guys 3-4 days, £100 each per day.
Yeah maybe a little high in retrospect. But thats complete guessing.
Where abouts are you? in a city , town or village?
Jonno
The gypsies in South Wales did a similar thing on my mother-in-laws drive (equivalent size) and only charged £1000.
Fecking gypsies.
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