Day rates, square-metre prices, quoting for the awkward ones, and when to walk away.
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The one everybody searches for and nobody publishes. If you have done a domestic CU swap recently, what did it come to, and what was in that price? Worth saying whether it included any remedial work,…
Driving an hour each way to price a job you have a one-in-four chance of winning is a day gone by Friday. Some people charge a survey fee and knock it off if they get the job. Some quote off photos.…
Landlord wants a number, tenant will not give access, agent says "just give us a ballpark". Do you refuse, quote high and hope, or give a rate plus a provisional sum and put the risk in writing? And…
Priced work rewards you for being quick. Day rate protects you when the job turns out to be a horror show behind the plaster. Which way have you gone, and has it shifted in the last couple of years?…
The half-hour job forty minutes away is the one that quietly loses money all year. What is your minimum charge, does it cover the first hour or just the visit, and how do you communicate it so nobody…
Empty property, you crack on. Occupied, you are moving furniture, working round a toddler's nap, dust sheeting everything and explaining what you are doing every twenty minutes. Are you pricing that…