£150 per day as a favour???!!!

[billybigspud]

[mark]

Hello again,
I've decided to do a home-brew interior and asked a joiner friend of a friend if he could help with the measuring, scribing & fitting of the units. He has told us he will do as much as he can in 2 days for a fee of £150 per day, we have to pay for materials on top of this too. I don't mean any disrespect but do joiners generally earn more than £150 per day?as this is supposed to be a favour to us but I wasn't really expecting a bill of this size.
As usual any input would be greatly appreciated.
Debbie

Hi Debbie,

I am in the building trade myself (plasterer) and £150 per day is the absolute minimum I would work for and a mates rate (or I dont have much on and would rather get some money than no money).

As far as all the trades go most of them can be done by following instructions that come on packaging and has a kind of pecking order in the skill scale, for example, starting the bottom up..

Laborer, fills skips, digs holes and makes tea.
Carpenter, basically a keen chap who is to rough to be a Joiner and uses grip fill and expanding foam lots.
Electrician, has instructions on how to fit pretty much everything they fit on the box it comes in but you need a certificate so they bump it up abit.
Plumber, has instructions on how to fit pretty much everything they fit on the box it comes in especially shower screens etc.
Heating engineer, doesnt do plumbing and breaths through his/her teeth alot, like the Electrician but with a newer van.
Plasterer, a skill and sorts out all the mess/pissed/smashed out this and that all the previous trades have done and unlike the others no intructions to follow
Joiner, like the plasterer a finishing job and a skill with a great amount of detail. If a joiner miters something you cant see the join, everything they do is precision and the tools they use are worth thousands of pounds.

Have a go by all means but I have seen loads of home brew conversions on vans that the finish of them is rubbish and made worse by using all sorts of rubber strips to cover up bad cuts etc. It reminds me of seeing something about this time last year on a van that looked OK from five meters away but if you got up close it looked like they had grabbed the tail of a shark and it had chomped its way through the "joinery" and stuck "trim" on to cover it up

Sorry for the rambled reply but £150 isnt bad at all really.

Good luck

jed

all true

[stephmac]

We used shower board and an bits of an old kitchen for ours cost next to nothing as the shower board came from a re furb.

[Dazco]

If you want to try and save a bit of money try somewhere like arnold lavers for your wood or any other trade wood stockist. Ive saved a packet on my ply . Hope it all goes well . Daz

[Just Dash]

Ta

[HarryMann]

Sorry for the rambled reply but £150 isn't bad at all really.

...for Home counties - factor by about 0.666 for North of the Watford Gap, say £100 in Manchester then?

[Just Dash]

Everything's on hold now anyhow Hubby not fit for anything at the moment (trapped nerve in his back) more than likely did the damage squirming about under van fitting the seat-belts!