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Labour Day Rates

  • 29-03-2021 3:27pm
    #1
    WhyTheFace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Does anyone know what are reasonable labor day rates?

    I am renovating my bathroom in a 2 bed apt. This will take 5 days or so as it a total refit.

    The company contract out the labour to another team but it was all on one quote from the company.


    However, I have been quoted €3,700 for the labour alone (inc VAT). This seems steep or is this the cost of building these days?

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    limnam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,294 ✭✭✭limnam


    Probably not enough information to get much feedback

    but 3 lads on 300e a day for 5 days is 4500e for example.

    Assuming 1 tiler, 1 leccy and a plumber.

    How much do you think it should cost?


  • #3
    WhyTheFace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭WhyTheFace


    Not sure what it would cost, maybe closer to €2.5k? It's not much bigger than an en-suite.

    If this is the going rate then so be in, just want to make sure I am not getting ripped off.

    They are putting in a stud wall to hide the cistern and to have a shelf in the shower. Also, changing shower from electric to pump.


  • #4
    Calvin001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭Calvin001


    Check out Joe.ie
    According to recent stats released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, the average hourly labour costs (excluding agriculture and public administration) were estimated to be €24.6 in the European Union.
    However, as Eurostat reports, “this average masks significant gaps between EU Member States, with the lowest hourly labour costs recorded in Bulgaria (€3.8), Romania (€4.6), Lithuania (€6.5) and Latvia (€6.6) and the highest in Denmark (€40.3), Belgium (€39.1), Sweden (€37.4) and Luxembourg (€35.9).”
    That means there’s a whopping €36.5 in the difference between the best paid and the least paid labourers in Europe. Wowsers.
    Ireland was about €29.80.

    So it depends on what you are looking for or thinking you are getting. A carpenter who may have to buy a couple of grands worth of tools, may expect a bit more than a blocklayer who may or maynot own a shoval and trowl.
    Builders are usually running companies and need to be paid for their knowledge and experience and the years of good character and contacts built up. Bathrooms cost about €5k on average (supply and fit includign tiling).


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