What would you charge.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

That's good (hard) and skilful work.

 

Time, materiel, equipment, tools, ability, consumables, delivery & installation....

 

I did a mental calc before looking through the thread at suggested prices and actual prices...

 

Mate, the only reason your conscience should be troubling you is for not putting fair pennies for fair work in your kids bank account to look after them and your family.

 

The only person having sleepless nights should be the one who would quibble over the prices you've indicated - and frankly, I'm pretty stunned by the low indicative values other posters have suggested. No offence to those guys but I don't see how you can cover costs / time / kit and get anywhere near min wage with a suggestion of 8-900 quid.

 

Alright, it's not a fair comparison, but I saw this rubbish for sale on South Bank in London earlier this year. I kid you not, price range £400-£1000 per piece!

 

If they cannot see the value and worth of the service you've provided they should not be educating children because they have head up RRRRRR.

[Rob D]

You've done a neat and tidy job there - ignore the comments and rest your conscience... doing this stuff knackers your body...

 

 

What is a fair price? - personally I feel it is the price you are happy to work at. Some will find it high, some will find it fine, some will think it cheap.

 

 

IMO you've done a discounted job here - and as seems to happen more often than not you get grief for it.

 

 

I now just charge the same price to everyone for woodwork/milling no matter if they are a charity, a school, someone with a few quid - the price is the same across the board. It makes things a lot easier!

 

 

[Rob D]

Alright, it's not a fair comparison, but I saw this rubbish for sale on South Bank in London earlier this year. I kid you not, price range £400-£1000 per piece!

 

 

What's wrong with these pieces? Look fine to me - and why not charge £400 - £1000 a piece? Good for them if they can get it. Prob have to include delivery + vat etc.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

What's wrong with these pieces? Look fine to me - and why not charge £400 - £1000 a piece? Good for them if they can get it. Prob have to include delivery + vat etc.

 

 

Not saying there's anything "wrong" with them, but if you take these example prices/pieces and cross match to GG's pieces you'd be well above the 8-900 squid people were suggesting as fair. Of course it's all about the market, S Bank business rates, customer wealth etc, but, and maybe it's not visible from the pics I used, they were pretty basic components coach bolted together. Not too challenging, there was no indication on the ticket price that delivery was inc, so can't comment with accuracy one way or the other. Educated guess, free delivery.... I rather doubt it! I did wonder if the manufacturer of those pieces on S Bank might recognise / comment - are they yours Rob? No offence intended if so! Sell at the price the market will bear.

[cheddar]

i'm surprised and a wee bit disappointed at the fee. The correct price is about three grand

[peatff]

I'd have thought the price would be a lot higher than what you asked. Under the head's logic if the caretaker's kids go to a school he should work for next to nothing.

[Rob D]

I rather doubt it! I did wonder if the manufacturer of those pieces on S Bank might recognise / comment - are they yours Rob? No offence intended if so! Sell at the price the market will bear.

 

 

Not mine - but similar to what I make!

 

No offence taken.

 

 

[gensetsteve]

How much does a head mistress earn ? ask them to justify it . The Headmaster of our local secondary school was keen to turn into an academy as his salary would be 100k a year not bad for a failing school and in special measures.

[dervishcarving]

friday was teh first day i noticed this thread, firday was international 'talk like a pirate day' so my first response was...

Take what you can, give nothing back.

(pirates code according to jack sparrow)

 

but on a serious note:

1- your prices are comparable to what other 'sites' charge for school-garden furniture so you didnt rip-off the school (thats the main thing)

2- your pieces are not bad for the money either

unfortunately

3: Your wife was part of the fund-raising and then the money went to you!!! shock horror! unfortunately this means that morons will assume " dodgey deals!! self serving barstewards! ripping off the school!!" etc etc. cant be avoided mate.

you could try statign the bleading obvious "if she hadnt raised the money there would be no effing stools! if she wasnt married to me she probably wouldnt have thought about raising money for bloody stools! and if I hadnt carved the effing things then you would have just had to pay for some other saw-jokey to carve them for the same price or more and THEN you would have to look after them yourselves".

 

problem is, even if you state that (might want to use your own words of course) you will still not convince some people. Of course the people who are muttering will be the ones who dif eff-all to help raise the money or they will be people who get PAID to work there...and paid well (headteacher) compared to the ordinary teachers

 

my advice? fk em

ok, seriously, my advice woul dbe to chalk it up to experience. make it clear that the comments of the headteacher has soured you against doing further work for the school unless you get a public acknowledgement that you went above-and-beyond to help out on this and previous occasions and simply become like any of the others parents... take and give nothing back (as i said in the first section)

[Gray git]

Devilish my man, I wouldn't change a word of how you put it as that's how I expresse my view when rattled!

Thanks all, guess it just peeeed me off and I needed a rant, also what I got was only a part of the grant and involved no member of school staff doing anything or squeezing other parents for cash it all came through a grant which had to be tended for which involves declaring what it's getting spent on and an inspection after to make sure it did get what it was ment to all invoiced properly so no funny business.

So em, other parents love em and other kids think my hannah has a cool dad who makes things with chainsaws so that makes it all better