What's the going rate per metre for laying slabs?

[Wireless]

It's just I've had some rather high quotes for labour for some work in my back garden!

[strapping young lad]

i laboured for a mate who is a qualified builder but now drives trucks, tenner an hour

we did 220 slabs 2ft square

our garden is now grass-less

:)

[waveydavey]

That would be a by the hour job rather than square meter as it all depends on the groundwork needed.

[STEVE AXWORTHY]

round here for labour only  proper price for pucker tradesman £120.00+  per day but for  east european labour cash in hand  no come back £50 -£75 per day   

[discowoman]

"What's the going rate per metre for laying slabs? "

Bloomin expensive, better off doing it your self - advertise for some 2nd hand slabs (usually free)

[Wireless]

"What's the going rate per metre for laying slabs? "

Bloomin expensive, better off doing it your self - advertise for some 2nd hand slabs (usually free)

If I could do it myself I would, but I have a back injury, so I'm at the mercy of tradesmen and it seems I have to pay through the nose.

I've already started parking the Disco elsewhere when they come to measure up, as I just thought £82+ a square metre was taking the proverbial when you can get the slabs I want at £11 a square metre from Jewsons.

I do dislike people thinking I'll stand for it.

[STEVE AXWORTHY]

does the £82 per mtr include the digging out and sub base of type one and to lay slabs on a 50mm sand and cement screed or for a cowboy job ie lay slabs straight on a thin layer of sand with no cement and  no sub base ?

[richo]

Don't forget that they have to dig out and putdown some sort of sub base first and they will have to take away all of what they did out.
Ask them if you can go see another customers work that way you will know if they are worth it.

[madmatt]

It depends if you want a proper job or bodge and scarper.  A  proper job involves,

Digging out this may require a machine,
Dispoal of dug out material legitamately (not in a layby)
Sub base of MOT1 compacted
Slabs to be laid upon mixed aggregates including any cutting and faffing
Disposal of all waste materials
Clear site.

If your not in the trade you'll be amased at just how much aggregates cost and disposal of waste is incredibly expensive and yep a good ground worker self employed will want and deserve 120 quid a day.

[Wireless]

Ok, I realise there is more work than putting slabs down on sand, I don't dispute that, but I still think £5360 is too much for laying just 65m2 of slabs.

[Boggert]

HOW MUCH?? I would do it my self!

[Edge]

Ok, I realise there is more work than putting slabs down on sand, I don't dispute that, but I still think £5360 is too much for laying just 65m2 of slabs.

Do you have a photo of the ground/area to be slabbed?
Pics of man holes & ground height in relation to damp course?
pics of access would be handy too?
Is it only slabs? (no edgings).
I'll ask the bro-inlaw to take a look.

[paul_humphreys]

PM me you name and phone number and I will pass it on to the lads at work,they do a good job. ;) They are all from Shrewsbury.

Paul

[Wireless]

Thanks to Edge & Paul for the offers, I'll get back to you in a few days, I have two more tradesmen coming to give quotes in that time, I'm hoping they are not like the shifty prat who turned Saturday afternoon, I don't care what he quotes he looked too much like a pikey, and was obviously lying through his teeth.

[Range Rover Blues]

How big is 65m² then, can't imagine that.  A block poaved driveway for a typical house might cost up to £3k locally, (I thought about having it done) and that's an area big enough to abandon 2 Discos onto.

My drive is gravelled apart from the tarmc that was already there.  The materials cost me less than £100 IIRC, with about 7 trips to the builder's yard with the Sankey.

I was lucky though, my front garden was lawned in good soil so I was able to tip it onto a garden where someone wanted topsoil.

If you see a skip in the road that's being filled with bricks, scrounge some for hardcore then they're free.

I used a permeable membrane (the most expensive bit) then a couple of tonnes of crusher run per car space and at least 1 ¹/₂ tonnes of graded "peak stone" granite on top.  If you use limestone it will crumble into a dust, the CC use granite chippings on their hard standings, it's very tidy.

I whackered the first section I did, the rest of it I Range-Rovered flat :lol:

Up side, no-one can walk on it without my hearing it, you can't jack my car up and nick the wheels

down side, I can't jack my car up on it and it sticks to the tyres sometimes, so you leave a trail on the drive.

http://members.mud-club.com/profiles/Range%20Rover%20Blues/gallery/RustyRRR/2/45e5c1c06f33b2833f695e141d64d477.JPG/T2ggZGVhciwgUlJSIGlzIGtlZXBpbmcgYmFkIGNvbXBhbnk=

[STEVE AXWORTHY]

another thing to take into consideration is the £82 per m2 inclusive of vat or ex vat any puker tradesman who is in constant work will be vat registerd 

[Wireless]

How big is 65m² then, can't imagine that.

It's equivalent to a square area with sides of 26 foot 5 inches.