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Walls - blocklaying costs ?

  • 10-08-2020 4:20pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭


    Do you pay per day? Or by block?

    Anyone ideas on rates?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Anyone please?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭selfbuild17


    Ideally by block or by sq.m. Paying by day is open to abuse. I think current rates at about 1.20-1.50 per block?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,301 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Do you pay per day? Or by block?

    Anyone ideas on rates?

    Depends who your using.
    John might be per block and joe by day.

    You decide who you want. It’s not an official rule.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Gumbo wrote: »
    Depends who your using.
    John might be per block and joe by day.

    You decide who you want. It’s not an official rule.

    And what’s a day rate these days?

    Just trying to work rough costs per block and per day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,870 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    vicwatson wrote: »
    And what’s a day rate these days?

    Just trying to work rough costs per block and per day

    I’d guess 300-400


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    I’d guess 300-400

    Very helpful response thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 Rolling Stone


    If per block / m2, they will likely look to be paid through window and door opes but they should fix insulation, lintels, dpc in lieu of this. Is scaffolding required? This won’t be included in the rate per block. Make sure they are registered for VAT, fully insured and that you get an invoice for any work done.

    Rates posted previously look about right. You could always agreed a fixed price, lump sum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,870 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Very helpful response thanks

    Sarcasm?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    6Depends where you are op, around here (clare/galway
    area) tradesmen are 180 to 250 a day through the books depending on the man,, i know blocklaying supplied and fitted on one job i was involved with recently was €25 per square meter, theres 10 blocks in a square meter for your own calculations, obviously the nearer you are to a city the more expensive it might become


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Sarcasm?

    If I wanted sarcasm I’d have posted in after hours


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    If per block / m2, they will likely look to be paid through window and door opes but they should fix insulation, lintels, dpc in lieu of this. Is scaffolding required? This won’t be included in the rate per block. Make sure they are registered for VAT, fully insured and that you get an invoice for any work done.

    Rates posted previously look about right. You could always agreed a fixed price, lump sum.

    Thank you but it’s in relation to garden walls not say house/extension block building


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    If per block / m2, they will likely look to be paid through window and door opes but they should fix insulation, lintels, dpc in lieu of this. Is scaffolding required? This won’t be included in the rate per block. Make sure they are registered for VAT, fully insured and that you get an invoice for any work done.

    Rates posted previously look about right. You could always agreed a fixed price, lump sum.

    Why would they need to be registered for vat


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,301 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Thank you but it’s in relation to garden walls not say house/extension block building

    You really should put that info in the OP.
    No point dropping nuggets of info every so often.

    Garden walls will be cheaper as there’s no insulation, wall ties etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,870 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    vicwatson wrote: »
    If I wanted sarcasm I’d have posted in after hours

    Okaayyy. Well 300-400 is standard Day rate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 Kylie Fan


    2200 for 800 6 inch cavity, s boundary wall with 4 piers and capping. 2.75 per block, labour only. Serious inflation over last few years..



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