Or is DP over 'mates rates' for decorating?

[GillBear]

Moving into a house that needs a fair bit of work in a weeks time and also expecting a baby in 2 weeks.

I would normally do the decorating myself but think I'll be out of action for a while!

DP's brother is a painter & decorator. He lives up north and work is pretty thin on the ground so he struggles.

We live in the south west and have had him and his assistant down to help us paint in the past. He stays with us (we feed him) and charges £130 a day not including materials for himself, then that again for his assistant.

He's said he can come down and help with the new house but he wants more money as the week would include a Sunday and bank holiday, so £300 a day for the two of them not including materials. We'd also pay for their diesel.

DP says it's fair enough, even though they only charge £80 a day each up North. He says his brothers doing us a favour, but I think it works both ways as we're giving him work he desperately needs. DP says this is a horrible attitude and I'm taking advantage of his brother by not paying what he asks for.

Am I being a hormonal cowbag?

Sounds like dp and his brother have got together and decided they want to spend bank holiday together eating takeaway in the evening. They have decided to use your house to get together in (bet they won't be ordering the takeaway, clearing it up or paying for it) and have cooked up a 'tell her I'll come and do the decorating' plan where you're charged over the odds for it-telling you that you have to pay for his travel and petrol and then extra because it's a BH. They sound like chancers but YOU appear to be agreeing to it!

The mishearing sounds bizarre as well.

What exactly are you agreeing to pay?

I really hope this is a troll and a fake post otherwise wtf? Get rid of this sponger.

I see. In your world 'mate's rates' mean you pay more! Now it all makes more sense.

Not in my ruddy world it doesn't. Mates rates is me asking my carpet fitter friend if he'll lay a carpet for me and him charging me 30 quid.

Still wanting over the odds. And travel. LOL @ he'll cook for them or they'll get a takeaway. Let me guess which it will be.

Wake up and smell the coffee. Your 'd'p is mugging you off.