Painter daily rate?

Reminds me a little of this thread:

Why are tradesmen so expensive

We have been doing up our flat for a while now and whenever I have to get someone in to do something I can't do I am absolutely amazed at how much they can charge. You can tell me that being an electrician or plumber is a skilled job as much as you like but its a really simple job. Anyone with...
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ChrisD. said:
Is it though? Corp tax is 19%, they'll more than likely be paying Quickbooks or similar, there's liability insurance too. So probably drop another few k off that leaves £47k. And pay for a van/suitable vehicle, tools that they use and other business costs. That's also making the assumption that they get work for 240 days a year which is not guaranteed. They'll then have to pay income tax and NI contributions on whatever they take out as the dividend allowance is only £2k now. I've not even included pension or healthcare cover.
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All offset by cash in hand work no doubt.
 
If that's for a full 'redecorating' service, prep work like sanding down woodwork before repainting etc. then that's not unreasonable IMO.

If it's literally a painter who is expecting to turn up and simply paint a prepped room, then it feels a bit high.

What are the other quotes you've got like?
 
I've found a lot of these trades are trying to win at capitalism too. They'll quote you top dollar and then send a monkey they have employed. My builder was quite transparent on the knock through he'll be sending some 18 year old lads to do 90% of the work... so the labour quote is astronomical on that basis. You just hope he has enough knowledge to worth the premium and they don't bring the place down...
 
It's about the standard rate nowadays, it's honestly about a 4-fold increase from around 4–5 years ago. We had someone paint pretty much all of our interior walls and ceilings for £75 a day back in 2018...

This wasn't some young lad starting out either, he'd been in the trade for years and did an excellent job!
 
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dLockers said:
I've found a lot of these trades are trying to win at capitalism too. They'll quote you top dollar and then send a monkey they have employed. My builder was quite transparent on the knock through he'll be sending some 18 year old lads to do 90% of the work... so the labour quote is astronomical on that basis. You just hope he has enough knowledge to worth the premium and they don't bring the place down...
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It would’ve always been that way. No point doing work you can get your lad to do, he has to learn too.
 
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Doobedoo said:
It would’ve always been that way. No point doing work you can get your lad to do, he has to learn too.
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Charge me accordingly then, or I'll just go to a builder who doesn't do that and charges the same amount.
 
dLockers said:
Charge me accordingly then, or I'll just go to a builder who doesn't do that and charges the same amount.
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Good luck with that. You’re paying for the job, if it’s done right it doesn’t matter who does it.

Or do it yourself self if any monkey can do it.
 
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Doobedoo said:
Good luck with that. You’re paying for the job, if it’s done right it doesn’t matter who does it.

Or do it yourself self if any monkey can do it.
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The thread is about daily rates i.e. paying for labour. The complete opposite of "paying for the job".
 
Ayahuasca said:
It's about the standard rate nowadays, it's honestly about a 4-fold increase from around 4–5 years ago. We had someone paint pretty much all of our interior walls and ceilings for £75 a day back in 2018...

This wasn't some young lad starting out either, he'd been in the trade for years and did an excellent job!
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Thanks, that makes sense why I paid £90 5 years ago and was only expecting a small increase instead of almost 3x times the amount.

Shove that up your hole, Participant.
 
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Our sub contract painters in work get paid about £120 a day and don't have to pay for any of their own material/insurance etc. so I can easily see someone quoting 250 a day all in.
 
200sols said:
Get a price for the job rather than a day rate.

£250 a day full time is £60k a year pre tax, its a lot for a painter.
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From experience, this doesn't always work. I got shafted this way, thinking it would take someone 3 days to do the job (as everyone on a day rate quoted that). They rushed the job and got it done in 1.5, so I ended up with a worse job for the same cost.
 
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