Christmas decorations 7.5k

[Cleo888]

Hello,

I would like a honest opinion do these pricing look fair or they are taking me for a mug. I thought we would hire a Christmas decorators to decorate our home thinking it would be practical to have a company set it up and take it down.
The final pricing remains the same whether you keep the decorations for 2 weeks or 2 months. The contract will be for 2-4 years the final price is payable every year.

Staircase garlands £1100
Outside doorway garland £550
Kitchen garland for above cupboards £550
Inside lights for glass (both areas) £1700
Living room fireplace garland £275
Inside 8ft tree , fully lit and decorated £950
Drive lights for pathway£180
Icicle lights for roofline and top windows £420
Access equipment to install lights and take them down £500
Total price £6225
Plus vat @£1245

FINISHED PRICE £7470

Sure!! Phew! I feel relieved 6k much better!! DEAL!

Perhaps it would be cheaper if you didn't have them in every room, ones on kitchen cupboards would be quite annoying

For those prizes, I'm assuming it's a large 4+ size house with a large frontage and your take home salary is >150k.

If not, no.

Put an add somewhere for someone to help you buy and erect them. Find an art student or something
But that's crazy money unless you've got it to burn

Honestly, decorating for Christmas is too much fun to let anyone else do it.

For those prizes, I'm assuming it's a large 4+ size house with a large frontage and your take home salary is >150k.

Surely you need to be on mega bucks eg 1m plus to pay someone to do xmas decs!

For 7.5k I'd want Tom Hardy to come down my chimney dressed as Father Christmas in red velvet chaps and do me over a mince pie and brandy.

From the prices I'm wondering if they're scared of heights and priced according to number of ladders involved. 🤣 The whole quote is ridiculous. I'd expect £2k to do a family home.
I mean, £1100 for staircase garlands? Not unless you're doing a Christmas tapdancing finale on them!

Hahaha

Get a few more quotes you have plenty of time. I'm sure you could also bargain them down. And I wouldn't agree to four years now unless that was a massive discount as what if you don't like them or you move or you want to do Christmas in Australia in a couple of years

I can't imagine handing over that kind of money to give someone else the pleasure of decorating my house for Christmas. Do you not enjoy it?

That you Melania?

These companies charge a fortune and they get it because it's usually big companies using them or folk with more money than sense.

My old work used to pay about £2k+ for hiring just a Xmas tree and that was 10yrs ago!

I would never pay that even if I had millions, it's just ridiculous. I'd be happy to pay for expensive decorations and keep them. Even hire someone to put the outside or difficult ones up every year. That would be much cheaper.

I just thought it would be time saving and I was interested in having it done at least once by professionals (home alone vibe!) but nevermind....

@dikwad That made me snort 😂

I can't get over the £1700 for lights for inside windows. How big are your windows?!?

Same!!

That was the conservatory

Oh that sounds amazing, I'd love to have the money to throw around for that!

All that money and not so much as one 8 foot naked inflatable Santa for the roof.

Even if I had money to burn I think common sense is important 🤔

I see lots of people, with great talent, advertising these services around Christmas. It's usually doing the tree with your existing decorations (that they can work with) plus adding more of your own choosing that you then keep.

I've only seen trees advertised, and these tend to be between £350-£400. I'm sure they would do garlands too.

£7.5k is laughable. I'd expect multiple (huge) trees, indoor and out, plus all other exterior lights, and the kitchen and dining room to look fab for that.

I mean, it’s obviously utterly ridiculous, unless you live in a massive country house and will be having visitors every day viewing the decorations etc. But I’d want to know what kind of decorations they were using. Are they all different blown glass baubles and tree decs? Some blown glass tree decorations can cost upward of £20 and even more basic ones are often £4-6 each, and you’d need several hundred. Or would they be loads of round plastic baubles in two different colours?

I look at celebs house pics with professionally decorated interior and it just looks so sterile. And blah.

Would have to pay me £7k to have that.

All that money and not so much as one 8 foot naked inflatable Santa for the roof.

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I look at celebs house pics with professionally decorated interior and it just looks so sterile. And blah.

Those trees they have! stuffed with decorations & giant ribbons & you can't even see green 🤢