fencing price

[onyx landscaping/fencing]

Just got an email saying that I must be taking the piss for a fence quote I done a week ago. Was for a friend of a friend so keeped the price lower (in my eyes anyway) quote was for this.... 4m run from the house to the fence line including a 1.2m wide gate and fittings at 1.8m tall feather edge. 30m run of 1.8m tall feather edge made up of 100mmx100mm wooden posts spaced at 1.8m,150mm gravel board,3xcant rails,25mm over lap on boards and 1.65m tall boards and capping. 10m run of .9m high feather edge with .9m domed "ornamental" trellis on top (to keep the view at the end of the garden). then another 30m run the same as the first side. so in total 62.8m of 1.8m high fence plus a 1.2m gate and 10m of .9m high with trellis on top (total of 74m).

 

long and the short of it is I quoted them £2950 for doing the lot and got told I was taking the piss!

[jim@T&Ccare]

I'd say your about right really! Sounds fair price I'd think!

[s.varty]

Ask them , what were the other quotes?

[Tommy 7840]

74 metres is a lot of feather edge etc it isnt going to be cheap!!!!

[Arborist]

Tell them to get stuffed!

[simonm]

Just got an email saying that I must be taking the piss for a fence quote I done a week ago. Was for a friend of a friend so keeped the price lower (in my eyes anyway) quote was for this.... 4m run from the house to the fence line including a 1.2m wide gate and fittings at 1.8m tall feather edge. 30m run of 1.8m tall feather edge made up of 100mmx100mm wooden posts spaced at 1.8m,150mm gravel board,3xcant rails,25mm over lap on boards and 1.65m tall boards and capping. 10m run of .9m high feather edge with .9m domed "ornamental" trellis on top (to keep the view at the end of the garden). then another 30m run the same as the first side. so in total 62.8m of 1.8m high fence plus a 1.2m gate and 10m of .9m high with trellis on top (total of 74m).

 

long and the short of it is I quoted them £2950 for doing the lot and got told I was taking the piss!

 

if they are not happy tell them to get another quote, or do the job themselves! Always annoys me when people ask you to quote for work and then say its to expensive. If i don't wanna pay someone to do a job i do it myself.

[Lyn Ed]

leave them to it mate, you never know they might be ringing you shortly after having other quotes, nothing worse than quoting for friends,

[s.varty]

Ask them , what were the other quotes?

 

They havnt had any, I,ll bet, a lot of customers have a price in their head as to what they expect to pay, yours is probably way above that.

[Arborist]

People like that really anoy me!

[onyx landscaping/fencing]

They are getting other quotes done this week. forgot to say they wanted the work completed by the middle of next week. when I went to quote for it I asked what there budget was so that I could tell them what could be done within there budget but they wouldn't say. There is also 25x concrete posts and wire to be removed.

 

good luck to them just bugs me a bit is all as they expect me to work for nothing is the jists of it I think