If she went through Age UK's Trusted Traders (I use them! Open to all agesA customer of mine asked me today if I thought a roofer had ripped her off for a job he'd done ? She's elderly in her 80's and wanted a few slates looking at her roof, as she was worried rain would leak through in the winter etc. He put 4 new slates in and charged her £300.00 !!
And she got him through Age Concern, who are supposed to help the aged. I told her to complain to them,but she won't. What a bastard !
A customer of mine asked me today if I thought a roofer had ripped her off for a job he'd done ? She's elderly in her 80's and wanted a few slates looking at on her roof, as she was worried rain would leak through in the winter etc. He put 4 new slates in and charged her £300.00 !!
And she got him through Age Concern, who are supposed to help the aged. I told her to complain to them,but she won't. What a bastard !
My son's a roofer so I'll ask him what he'd charge ?Was it a proper company or a bloke who was self employed? Some roofing companies probably wouldn't get out of bed for less than that I don't think
Some also won't work on ladders, just scaffolding
Piss take imo if he only used ladders/roof ladders and not scaffolding, as that would certainly add to the cost.She did say he quoted £300.00 before the job. She said to him that sounds a lot ? He was up there about half an hour. I went up to look for her and there were 4 new ridge tiles put in. So he did a proper job, but to me 300 quid for thirty minutes work sounds dodgy ? I said shall I contact Age Concern for you,but she said her son would do it as he too was a bit pissed off with it.
You can easily pay £300 for half an hour with a hooker apparently, so this all seems pretty fair I reckon.She did say he quoted £300.00 before the job. She said to him that sounds a lot ? He was up there about half an hour. I went up to look for her and there were 4 new ridge tiles put in. So he did a proper job, but to me 300 quid for thirty minutes work sounds dodgy ? I said shall I contact Age Concern for you,but she said her son would do it as he too was a bit pissed off with it.
Waste of cash, what you gonna do for the remaining 28 mins?!You can easily pay £300 for half an hour with a hooker apparently, so this all seems pretty fair I reckon.
Have her poo in my rucksack and shave my ears.Waste of cash, what you gonna do for the remaining 28 mins?!
He used ladders.Piss take imo if he only used ladders/roof ladders and not scaffolding, as that would certainly add to the cost.
Aye, not bad at £600 p/h with that logic.You can’t expect him to take that out of his hourly rate.
Ridge tiles a fiver plus each. Then the muck to mix. Fuel costs. Time spent travelling both ways.She did say he quoted £300.00 before the job. She said to him that sounds a lot ? He was up there about half an hour. I went up to look for her and there were 4 new ridge tiles put in. So he did a proper job, but to me 300 quid for thirty minutes work sounds dodgy ? I said shall I contact Age Concern for you,but she said her son would do it as he too was a bit pissed off with it.
Aye, not bad at £600 p/h with that logic.
He's charged her too much even with taking everything else into consideration.
Apparently lolYou can easily pay £300 for half an hour with a hooker apparently, so this all seems pretty fair I reckon.
That’s not the logic at all. The guy has to travel to the job, between jobs, probably made multiple visits including doing the actual physical work, spends hours of his life looking at jobs quoting and then will only win a percentage of jobs he’s spent a lot of time on, pay for a van, insure a van, fill it with fuel, maintain it, buy tools, business insurance, public liability insurance etc etc. It isn’t easy running a business. For it to be £600 an hour his next £300 half hour job would have to be next door, he would have had to visit both jobs to enable him to quote at the same time etc etc. Any notion that he’s just put £300 straight in his back pocket and he’ll do that another 15 times in an 8 hour working day is naive. The bloke has a right to earn a living and if he’s done the job correctly and to a good standard £300 isn’t a bad price.
Stop boasting you stud you..Waste of cash, what you gonna do for the remaining 28 mins?!
It's one job, quote for a four tile roof fix for £300, rip off. Should have been around half that.That’s not the logic at all. The guy has to travel to the job, between jobs, probably made multiple visits including doing the actual physical work, spends hours of his life looking at jobs quoting and then will only win a percentage of jobs he’s spent a lot of time on, pay for a van, insure a van, fill it with fuel, maintain it, buy tools, business insurance, public liability insurance etc etc. It isn’t easy running a business. For it to be £600 an hour his next £300 half hour job would have to be next door, he would have had to visit both jobs to enable him to quote at the same time etc etc. Any notion that he’s just put £300 straight in his back pocket and he’ll do that another 15 times in an 8 hour working day is naive. The bloke has a right to earn a living and if he’s done the job correctly and to a good standard £300 isn’t a bad price.
My son told me earlier that a roofer he worked for would always quote over the odds to the elderly, saying theyve got lots of money,and will pay as they're not clued up etc. Not saying all roofers are like that but these types are just after cash.Also, what's this bullshit about "if it's a good job, then it's ok to overcharge/quote". It should be standard that any tradesman would do a "good job" and not just the customer that gets lucky finding a good tradesman, especially from a trusted trader, age uk site.
can't she get to the toilet anymore?She even sided with the roofer as she said " I guess nothings cheap anymore ? " So I'm now charging her for filling my bucket up with water !
All she said was that she rang Age Concern asking for a roofer, this chap turned up quoted her the price, she said that sounds a lot for a small job ? He must have told her that's the price, and did the half hour job.Did she get multiple quotes? It could just be rather than ripping her off he just has a higher rate.
I've had it with tradesmen before, some have a much higher day rate than others. Then have to balance out the rate with the person to choose who to do it.
About right from what I was chargedI know these are a bit spurious but looks like it’s 33% over charged
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