How To Price up domestic plastering jobs...

[@tsprltd]

Great video Joel, that price is very cheap! To prep and skim that room I would do this over 2 comfortable days and charge £550 including materials. This allows me to take my time, not push myself and just enjoy the process. This price is bearing in mind having to view the job prior to carrying out the works as well as my time in the evening to write up a quotation and send it over to the customer. That’s £200 per day Labour + £80 materials which leaves £70 for fuel and my time to quote works! Keep the videos coming it’s interesting to see how other lads are quoting!

[@Rendervate]

Yeah a day job like that is nice to do man, anything more like to board the ceiling it’s two days mate for defo,

[@davesmith3562]

I agree mate plus if you are busy can always charge more for your service

[@NiktheEnglishGreekCypriot]

It’s always different but generally I’m 250 a day plus materials. So yeah, 550 for this job would be on the money. I know some who charge a lot more, my mate will do a small room and his costing would be 7/800

[@leeds114]

Yeah that’s how I do it two days have an early finish on prep day love it grit walls next day two easy gauges then home

[@craigdewhust4729]

​@@leeds114snap pal,especially now I've hit 40s

[@markpearse780]

A real video! Sweet! People think I'm mental eating on the go, got no choice.lol. 20years of skimming, there are many great plasterers I have met, every one of them gets on and grafts! Keep up the real!

[@Onthetrowel]

Arrrgggg the lad has pva'd the walls before the scrim again. F#@kin nightmare. Having to bed them on. I always price alot higher than what I want... you can always come down in price but you can't go up. I made a video on it mate on my channel Your work looks lovely and that was another top quality video, nice one mate 🙂👌👌👌

[@Rendervate]

Cheers mate, yeah it’s a nightmare trying to scrim on to pva walls hahaha

[@kian3142]

I’m normal on empty houses and I do agree with no mix on past 2 but a lot of the time I just carry on, there been days when I’ve not got home until 3:30am 😂😂

[@joejoey316]

In Dublin, a bag of skim coat €17, a bag of bonding is €20 crazy prices for martials these days!

[@Joe-jv5mm]

Agree 1000% Madness, Pricing for Job's the Customer looking @ you with a Face On, I don't bother supplying materials now that's on the Customer back, labour only, let them do the running around 😉

[@joejoey316]

@@Joe-jv5mm the very same!

[@Teddy-ue8zi]

Cheers buddy ☺️👍

[@Benzknees]

Good point about putting on scrim before the PVA! How many days a year do you get a full day's work out of? I'm guessing you spend quite a bit of unpaid days visiting properties to weight up what to quote, as well as rained off days if doing external render.

[@dicesquaresuk]

Nice content my guy.

[@Dmoriarty1993]

Great vid!

[@joejoey316]

Some places charge 70€ _ 90€ for thistlebonded, around 40€ for bluegrit!

[@leeds114]

Way too cheap breaking your back for £250 there in my eyes us plasterers should be charge two days worth of labour there that’s what I do. Early finish on prep day the two east gauges it’s plasterers like you that keep plasterer wages down for smashing it out in a day be ducked when you get home not a dig but it’s totally true

[@jasongentle6446]

True what you’re saying everyone different up down the country I’ve been in game for 39 years still banging on 🤣but it’s two days labour with killing your self 👍👍👍

[@davidjones3096]

I always try to get my first gauge on for 9.30 then 2and half hour set which is 12 o’clock, and 2nd gauge on by 1 o’clock, then it’s a half three finish. I would have charged £420 for that room supplying. Your not a million miles away. Great video by the way.

[@joejoey316]

Great content BTW Joel!

[@ThePlasterer]

Nice one bruv 👌👌👊

[@bluevanmani]

Got to be a bit more than that Joel at the end of the day your running a business so labour plus profit. For that money by the time you take into account running around paying tax blah blah blah might as well work for someone no stress

[@davesmith3562]

Nice one Joe's that's exactly how I price a plastering job . However if u have ever used render lmesh in old overskim walls u should know it will be a 6pm finish .

[@Rendervate]

Does it take longer with the mesh in mate? I never used it in walls.

[@davesmith3562]

@@Rendervate always swear by it for over skim mate especially if their several cracks way better than scrim but u need to 3 coat it In a sense to cover the mesh but u know u will never get any comebacks

[@Plastermaster91]

@Dave Smith fibres for concrete is also really good you can get it at wickes for £4.50. One sachet in first coat. I used to mesh all the time but this is alot faster and less hassle been back to a job grazed to death and they didn't want to pay for hacking off and boarded. Fibres in each mix of finish Two years on still no cracks!

[@davesmith3562]

@@Plastermaster91 fair enough mate thanks for the tip . I've used the fibres for screeding but never in plaster won't they show through on the plaster ? What about scrim do I still use over cracks ? I'll have to try it one day but defo seems alot quicker. Will make my life alot easier

[@Plastermaster91]

@Dave Smith I still fibre tape the cracks yes . No they don't show through I only use in the first coat not the second and you can see them down to the last bit of gear in bucket so they spread well but doesn't show through work on either coats .

[@IanDavies]

100% about that last mix, never past 2!

[@Rendervate]

Yeah mate forget that it’s just in my head that

[@275simon]

Never past 1 for me

[@drsteelhammer4056]

@@275simon And what time does Ann like to get her last mix on Simon

[@275simon]

@@drsteelhammer4056 depends if we are having Yorkshire’s for tea

[@GreentopLandscapes]

Good Video, thank you

[@275simon]

How do you price rendering mate

[@moodystreet76]

I don’t get why price it for 1 days work and all that wear and tear on the body when it’s surely reasonable to do it over 2 days and the customer pays a bit more. I’d only just get that done in 2 days 🤣.

[@alexwilson365]

£250 (for your job) might seem alright but you wouldnt be fleecing anyone for a room and ceiling like that if you put it to £300 and put that £50 earning into your private pension. You might already account for this. But you should be putting some earnings away in a private pension. At a minimum aim at £3000-£5000 a year. Im a plasterer too and can tell your honest and hard working. Currently if you put £100 into a SIPP the government will match 25% of what you put in. So put in a grand and HMRC gives you £250 on top. Invest in some good looking funds and do some research.

[@ethansmith8840]

I'd charge 300 for this good video