Material costs not included in decorating quote

You need to ask the person doing the work. Everyone prices differently but it should be clear what is and isn’t included. You can’t expect people on a forum to know what someone has estimated for you.

If it’s ’price plus materials’ ask for an idea of cost. Bear in mind paint can be £15 a tin or £150 a tin. He may not know what you have chosen.

 

Looking at the quote all of that should be included in ‘prepare’ but you need to ask the person doing the work

 

Not sure where in the country you are but to be honest if he’s doing that lot for two grand including VAT then I’d bite his hand off. I’d be charging four times that.

 

Perfectly reasonable of him not to tell you quantities. I don’t take deposits at all but that aside if client wishes to supply materials then that’s fine but I give no help at all with quantities. There’s work involved in working these things out and hence why most will add a profit margin to materials to account for that. If he does all that for then he’s done the work but only to save you money. Pointless for him to do so.

 

That is a decent quote for what is to be done - and very detailed.

You will need to agree and in writing whate materials you will supply - paint, paper, paste &c (he may want a specific lining paper or paste brand for example) and then what they will supply and with a rough cost. He may need no filler or two boxes of Toupret (£50) for example so there could be significant differences.

And worth noting that the deposit will be £402.

 

Too detailed really and although I’ve replied, I very much suspect AI is posting this. Who has ever seen a decorator or anyone else price to the nearest 23p.

 

Possibly not in general decorating but I have seen MoD projexct whre the amount for a specific item, which could be painting was, for example £12,345.67 and one project worked on £850,837.92 - yes pennies in a near million pound project.