So what tools do you carry??

[Matthew Storrs]

HI JOSH mate just bill here for your time i have a mate with JCB if he does other job on site he still gets JCB rates thanks jon

 

I hate that sort of pickiness that comes with day rates, if the JCBs on site then quite right the rate should remain the same, same goes for saws or anything else. If you've quoted man with chainsaw then thats what you arrive to the job with regardless of whether its working every minute of the day etc.

[muttley9050]

Imo there's no pickiness to be had for day rates. That's the rate whatever I'm doing, and if I finish earlier than a full day, tough, give me something else to do if u like but day is wasted so that's what your paying me for,

I'm fortunate that most people I work day rate for are regulars who just tell me the job, I do it, and invoice at the end. Saves a lot of pricing time.

[Matthew Storrs]

I once did a big fencing job for a farmer on day rate, I worked with my digger from 8am - 7pm to get a stretch completed each day and charged him only a day each time.

Few months later I did 1 day for him fencing a nasty stretch and I finished early at 3pm and gave him the invoice- later I got a call to ask why I had charged him a full day when I had finished at 3!

 

Once bitten, twice shy.