Mcleod 60

As a joiner I charge people either an hourly rate or a day rate depending on what the job is. Within that day I dont ever take breaks, I usually start at 7am and work till 7 pm if the job allows. I also never take the mobile phone onto a job as customers hate workers who are constantly looking at their phone and messaging folks. I charge for production only and if Iam at a customers house for ten hours but think I have wasted too much time thinking or pondering over things then I wont charge for that non productive time and will subtract that from the hours for that day. In your case I would be paying for working time only but maybe Iam just a bit old fashioned.

Iam with you, I too favour an hourly or daily rate as all my work is through word of mouth and people know I just get on with it. Most of my clients will end up with a smaller bill than if the job was done on a price.

Hi folks, I was in a customers house last week and he asked me to look in his attic at the rot repairs that were carried out in his roof space. Its a new house he has just bought which is in an old refurbished building. The housebuilder had carried out roof repairs and has stated that the repairs were designed by a well known engineering agency in Inverness and are carried out to spec but when I looked you can clearly see that there has been a lot of stress put on the timber around the metal plates. When you run a straight edge along the underside of the valley rafters you can see that the new section at bottoms are out of line by 75mm, so either it was never done right to start or its sunk under the weight in the past two months? Just wondered if anyone had any thoughts re the repairs and size of plates used bearing in mind there are no other supporting timbers under the valley rafters. Many thanks.