Yep, a fiver is about it. You have to protect as well, just the cling film type stuff. £6.50 cushion floor, plus about £2 latex & prime. Its all relative, property is nice and cheap up there and a rip off down here.
I don't know anyone getting or shops giving fitters more than £3m2 for fitting carpet, carpet fitting is underrated around my way every other trade gets a pay rise flooring gets knocked back
New build round here is £4 a m2. But everyone I know that does it gets shafted eventually Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Really ? How come ? We work for 3 or 4 firms and they have all been established for time. If they shafted anyone, word would soon get round, and they would be fooked.
Had a firm advertising on the cfs trade counter. Was warned off of them as they had been knocking the fitters. Also a lad that use to work with me was doing it but was waiting too long for payments so knocked it on the head. Anything we have ever priced on new build has always been to low so not worth doing it. We don’t really do site work and much commercial tho Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
i dont earn £750 every day, i couldnt hack that. i generally make 400ish a day. done a 5 bedroom town house with lounge and study that paid £737, 7.30 start 4pm finish with my apprentice 2 days in a row im young,fit and healthy and i have the mindset to work at 100% every day without breaks, i dont smoke so dont stop 6 or 7 times a day like alot of fitters. my grippers mitred every single day all around the house, i stretch all four walls on in a room, gapped correctly. nothing is bodged in im just quick and i only do carpet which probably helps maintain the speed every day
Those numbers are achievable tho. The firm I started with absolutely ploughed through work. I went back to sub for them a few years back. My days work was h/s/l first then on to 2 bathrooms LVT with 6mm ply prep and last job 3 bedrooms. Next shop I worked for only expected a fitter to do one LVT bathroom with prep per day, 2 max. Strange trade we are in? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yeah I couldnt do the town house without the apprentice, but i can do 3 and 4 bed single story houses by myself.
It sure does. Last week I was a bit short handed and had to get about 20 cuts of 50oz twist up to the third floor with one of my lads. Not cut out for that anymore.