Awkward situation re. money...

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Don’t want to go into too much detail as might be outing but my brother had a problem with his house, DH is a tradesman and offered to help him fix it.

DH spent the best part of three days there and spend hundreds on materials.

DB seems to think it was done as a favour as hasn’t offered any money. DH is very squeamish when it comes to discussing money with my family. He’d like payment for one of the three days and obviously for the materials.

I’ve said he should have discussed this prior to doing the job. I’ve also said I’ll speak to DB but we’re not that close and I don’t want to fall out with him by landing him with a £500 bill when he was expecting it for free...

Any advice on what to say to DB?

Invoice at 10% off is a brilliant solution.

If it was my brother I’d be having a word. But then again my brother would have been offering money before the job was started...

So no-one has actually asked DB for any money yet. I'd whack in the bill for parts and labour with the same 10% family discount and no other comment or apology (especially) and see what happens. It will force the conversation to happen and will put on the table what the job was actually worth.

Nah cant ask for money now 2 late. Ask him to pay the materials via text and say can pay in instalments

Same as what the others said, bill with 10% discount - no explanation, just standard invoice

@SoupDragon
I didn’t say anything about free materials. The poster above was asking why everyone is saying it will be hard to now go and charge for labour. I was replying to that.

I’ve already said they should simply let the brother know the cost of materials.