Guides

Published labour constants, manufacturer drying windows and job durations from a named professional decorator, with a worked example for one bedroom.

Every trade benchmark on one page.

Beside each sits the spread the UK price guides publish, read from the side of the person doing the work rather than paying for it.

Published production rates at slow, average and fast, and a worked room.

Two figures the register does not carry are stated as missing rather than filled in.

A day rate multiplied by a job length is a job price.

Worked for decorating, with the width of the answer shown rather than smoothed away.

What skimming a room costs in labour.

Worked from published production rates by room size and by the square metre, with what five named guides charge for the whole job beside it.

What two named guides publish for a plumber call out, how far apart they are, and the 16 trades no guide publishes one for at all.

Every day rate here, worked back to an hour.

The working day is stated, and the hourly range the UK price guides publish for the same trade sits beside it.

Three answers to one pay question.

Official employee pay and real construction payroll for every trade here, printed beside the day rate a customer pays, with the scope of each payroll figure on its own row.

Tiling labour by the square metre and by the job.

Worked from published production rates, with what four named guides charge and what each of those prices covers.

Published production rates in the three room size bands the register prints, a worked bathroom, and the cure figures nobody publishes, stated rather than filled in.

What four named guides charge to rewire a house by size, how many days each says it takes, and the crew question that decides the labour.

How long each kind of boiler job takes according to three named sources, and what two directories charge for it.

The price does not follow the hours.