Labour cost for fitting timber cladding?

[Moonshine]

Anyone got a ball park labour only figure for fitting 150mm cladding, linear m or m2?

[Thorfun]

I paid about £6.5k labour iirc. We bought 4130lm of a mix of charred larch and standard Siberian larch so that’s about £1.57/lm I think!

 

hope that helps. Although I think our chippie has put his daily rate up a bit since he finished our job so might’ve cost us a bit more if we were doing it now. 

 

 

[Thorfun]

Ps. We used a 120mm profile for the Siberian larch. The charred was 150mm though. 

[Moonshine]

On 02/11/2022 at 21:52, Thorfun said:

I paid about £6.5k labour iirc. We bought 4130lm of a mix of charred larch and standard Siberian larch so that’s about £1.57/lm I think!

 

hope that helps. Although I think our chippie has put his daily rate up a bit since he finished our job so might’ve cost us a bit more if we were doing it now. 

 

 

 

Cheers, that does look a cheap rate and can understand why his rates went up.

 

My thoughts were about £3 per l/m, which is £24 per m2 on 150mm larch (125mm coverage)

[Thorfun]

17 minutes ago, Moonshine said:

 

Cheers, that does look a cheap rate and can understand why his rates went up.

 

My thoughts were about £3 per l/m, which is £24 per m2 on 150mm larch (125mm coverage)

yeah, I was very happy with his quote and work! he was a one man band (with an occasional helper/labourer) so it took quite a while but that wasn't an issue for us as we're definitely not a speedy build.

[Moonshine]

I ended up taking a day off doing some of the cladding. In about 6.5 hours I did about 68 linear metres and a window trim.

Working solidily, treating cut ends and laser leveling every couple of lifts, so not rushing it too much.

On my own experience £3 may be a tad rich

 

 

 

[Thorfun]

21 minutes ago, Moonshine said:

I ended up taking a day off doing some of the cladding. In about 6.5 hours I did about 68 linear metres and a window trim.

Working solidily, treating cut ends and laser leveling every couple of lifts, so not rushing it too much.

On my own experience £3 may be a tad rich

 

 

 

photos? 🙂 

[Moonshine]

1 hour ago, Thorfun said:

photos? 🙂 

 

When its all done, though have to say using a nail gun for the first time ever today is a revelation!

Edited November 10, 2022 by Moonshine

[Thorfun]

26 minutes ago, Moonshine said:

 

When its all done, though have to say using a nail gun for the first time ever today is a revelation!

I wish you the best of luck! 

[Moonshine]

On 10/11/2022 at 21:17, Thorfun said:

I wish you the best of luck! 

 

I did a solid side of the building the other day, straight runs without any windows / doors, managed 80 linear metres in 3 hours, treating cut ends and laser levelling every couple of lifts.

 

At £25 / h that's less than £1 a metre 😁