What did you pay

What would you expect to pay for 1:replacing 4 tap washers 2:fitting a new handle unit to the toilet cistern 3:fitting a toilet seat, loo holder and towel holder 4:5 picture hooks and 5: fitting two dog gates into the kitchen doors? [just had a quote; would love to know what people think]

£70 - £80 max? Go on, how much?

Boiler service: £100

Cut & colour:£80 (hairdresser comes to my house)

No pets

No piano

Cleaner £9 ph

Decorating: £150 ( & that is cheap) per day plus materials ..top class work!

Surrey

Tegan it will usually depend on how straightforward or otherwise the jobs are. SiL charges about £150 per day (he starts at 7:45 if customers let him and works until 6:30) so not bad value, about £15ph. However if he thinks you have not got much money (e.g.a pensioner) he charges a token fee....bit of a softie!

£260 [cash in hand please]. Must think I was born yesterday . Anyway, the heating system has sprung a leak so I'm calling out a heating engineer tomorrow and, hopefully I can sort the dripping taps out while he's here.

Tegan, I couldn't possibly hazard a guess, not being handyman/woman.

But we did ask a close family member to do some plumbing work for us recently and I couldn't believe his hourly rate! . If that was 'mates' rates' I hate to think what the usual charge is...

Good grief! my DD2 would not need to work if SiL charged that much!!

Penstemmon; there's probably 2 hours work to do. I know someone that charges @£120 for a full days work but thought I'd get a quote from someone that's a qualified plumber, just to be on the safe side. My ex [an engineer] always used to say I never appreciated him doing so much work on the house; I do now . How many elderly people are being ripped off by people I wonder?

Ana; there's plumbing work and there's changing tap washers!

I know - but this wasn't complicated radiator-installing, pipe-changing stuff, just fitting a couple of new valves, fitting a new thermostat on the boiler and bleeding and flushing the radiators. Treble your quote!

Blimey, Tegan sounds like he needs to charge that much because only one person a week accepts his prices!!!! More fool him!

Tegan, that sounds reasonable for this affluent area. It costs £85 for any tradesman to cross the threashold or, outside, £100 to cut my 50ft long hedge annually, £500 for outside painting (2 doors, 6 small windows).

Just had the bill from the vet for Lily, £43.54 ! More than double yours tiggypiro