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whats that..£300 of concrete delivered, shutting, dig the hole..seems a bit much to me even for london. id do that for six if there were access for a truck and chute. depends also what you have to remove to lay the new slab. if were just turf id be asking closer to £600 and still have half a day left.
No side/rear access to garden, got to bucket ballast/cement through house, not feasible to use barrow! Using a mixer. Weeds waist height to be strimmed & huge mound of earth to be removed & area leveled. Garden 16m long, concrete base will be at end of the garden.
With 3 and a half tonnes of ballast/cement to bucket through the house, let's hope you can mix it at the sharp end. Is the house on the level, steps? What groundwork is needed, is the sub-grade sound? etc etc etc. Difficult for anyone to estimate blind.
Heck of a lot of carting, and London, maybe it's too cheap!
id love to hear some of the regional price variations on this! still seems very pricey-but good luck to you if you can get it! )
i didnt get the bit about not being able to use a barrow..still..how much would a labourer cost for the day? the OP asked whether or not the price was competitive and i understand other posters are notching the price up..but a greater consideration might be that the customer could work out it would be much cheaper to do themselves...but seriously..£1200 for what-a days work? seems a little extravagant still...
All of the above shows you cant price other people's work without seeing the job first hand. Equally, if you are not confident enough in your own pricing, then may be leave it alone.
Think your under charging. Think about how many man hours its going to take you to strim and bag weeds and take through house, how many bags / buckets of soil you are going to have to carry through house to get area level and soil you will have to move to put in 16m2 of type 1 and then concrtete to make the base, then the cost of a skip to put all waste in (minimum £220 in london where I live) plus upto £75 for license if it needs to go on road, let alone the material costs,the time it will take to carry all the type 1 and cement back through the house, highering a mixer if you need to.......etc etc. Its not so much the cost for the materials but the man hours, if you do this job, and presuming there are two of you working, you could be looking at 5 days labour just to get materials in and out which I dont think you have covered. Dont sell your self short, these jobs are expensive because of the man hours and not because of the material costs and make this clear to your client. Alternatively if its just a shed, and not a car port or garage, suggest another form of foundation, if its just to keep shed off the earth then do you need such a deep concrete base ? Could you not just provide damp proofing, weed proofing and paving slab base.... hell of a lot easier
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