£200 per day for painter decorator

[MeganM3]

Is £200 about right for a reasonably good painter / wallpaper. I believe that is for 7 hours so roughly £30 per hour. I provide all the paint but he uses his own tools.

Been absolutely ages since we decorated.

That’s at the lower end of the scale around my way (Home Counties).

Lucky you! £300 where we are.

Sounds extremely cheap but I'm in Greater London....

I pay that is southern Scotland.

Much of that goes straight back to the government in taxes so he will be lucky to be clearing minimum wage for a skilled job.

That’s cheap.

This is a good price

How so? Even if he worked 52 weeks of the year every day he'd be earning £52k and by the time he's taken off his expenses he's be a basic rate tax payer, hardy paying most of his earnings and no where near minimum wage unless he's working something like 20 hours a day

I think it seems like a reasonable rate but whether I'd pay it depends on how good his reviews are

That's cheap for round here (outside London), quotes I got last year worked out at £400 per day average. Having done all my own decorating last year, it's underpaid for the effort required!

£200 is entry level pricing, remember they need to buy tools, run a van etc. Our handy man charges £250 a day and that’s cheap, it’s the same price whether he takes 5 hours or 8 though so it worked out over time, he’ll do most jobs except gas (he’s electric qualified)

Yes, that’s a good rate for a professional decorator.

Sound good to me

rubbish
£30 an hour is well above minimum wage post tax since it is more or less a labour only job in this case.
However I agree with those saying £200 day rate is "good" for a single trade painter/decorator.
We have handymen who charge £200 day rate for assembling a flat pack round here.

That's exactly what I'm paying next week. Totally happy with it.

I’m in the SW and decorator we’ve been using upped his day rate from £200/day to £250/day about six months ago.

I'm SE, 80miles from London and its similar to what we've paid. We've been renovating for 3yrs. We've had trades finish at 3pm on the dot though, so getting 7hrs of actual work done is rare IMO. Our roofers had 6 breaks a day for tea!

exactly what we just paid 2 weeks ago in the Home Counties.

That seems good value though you may be better pricing the job than the day rate.

I think you may have overlooked VAT.

Don’t pay by the day…ever
Pay by the room or full job and Agree a timescale

This 👆

That's what I paid 3 years ago

If he does a proper 7 hours of professional work, that's very cheap.

Dh is a painter, sounds reasonable for round here (Borders). Though he usually does a quote for job.

well comparing a tradesman with income >£85,000 (VAT threshold) to minimum wage is even more unrealistic