Approx Paving cost?

[Steve H]

Hi, Any rough ideas on the cost of paving the side return outside my kitchen door. It is currently grass and is approx 7ft by 16ft and does have a manhole cover. By the way I live in Lincs.

Cheers

Steve

edit to add: I will supply the slabs

[Slagathore]

£40-50 per m2

2.2 x 5 - 11

£550

There's a guy on here who does it, might even be local to you. His name escapes me at the moment, but I'm sure someone will be able to remember it?

[m3jappa]

It may be £550 up north but look at more like £1100 down south. That would include materials though.

Got to look at 2 days labour, muck away cost, aggregates and any other bits you may need. £50 a meter is possible if you have 100sq m of 200x100 type herringbone with easy access, but its getting harder and harder to do it for that money due to everything going up.

The smaller the job the more per sq m cost due to materials being cheaper to buy in bulk.

Labour rates have gone down every year for about the past 3 years yet the final price is going up and up

[homeimprovements]

where abouts in lincs are you ?

[arguti]

Have been trying to get brick paving done at two properties (approx 90m2 and 120m2) here in Worcestershire and although the one job is a bit more complex as they need to drop the base level by around 2 feet to bring front of house in line with driveway, the quotes vary quite a bit for the job.


Straighforward job: ie 90m2:
First quote (reputable firm) said 2 days and soakaway for £4400
Second chap (groundworks expert) said 1 week but needed acco drains and no soakaway.


Not so straightforward job: ie 125 m2

first said 3 days and £5200 thank you.
the other chap (groundworks expert) said at least 2 weeks and £14,000 thank you as cutting down would expose foundation stones and a new retaining wall ie wall boxes for flowers would have to be built - concrete needs to set, etc

Problem is, like with car bodywork and welding, the preparation is everything and I am fairly sure that with the 125m2 job, the job cannot be done properly in 3 days (having had very good builders in last year to work on both properties, I know fast/slow good work takes, before you ask, the same v.good builders carefully avoided quoting for the job either because it was too much work for what it make them or because brick paving is not their expertise.)

none of the other 3 firms have phoned back to quote so business must be good or admin too crap or as my Dad would say, they are not hungry enough.

Thing that made me chuckle was the one chap used one of these "wheels" that you walk to measure but every walk he took was always at a slight angle presumably to add a few metres here and there unless he has severe cerebellar ataxia or similar. do these people think you are blind and stupid.