What would you charge.

[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

[sawdusty surfer]

I carve for a living.

 

They got an absolute bargain.

[danroker1987]

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

 

i completeley aggree, its not climbing trees but its still dangerous and time consuming,don't feel bad mate good job:thumbup:

[danroker1987]

:thumbup::thumbup:

I carve for a living.

 

They got an absolute bargain.

[Gray git]

All happy again at the school, apparently she didn't realise she was coming across as she did.

Hasn't gon as far as apologising but I think that's as good as I can except, iv now fixed the chair to the ground with 5ft re bar nails so that thing ain't going no where!!

Also got quite a few requests for mushroom seat/table sets for Christmas presents so feeling better about the whole thing again.

Thanks all :-)