or anyone who may have had similar work done, what would be a reasonable cost for fitting 2 window sills to windows, as an extra, that you're already working on?

one sill is 2.3m the other 2m.

the sills have been cut/shaped from gutter board and to be fair are a good and perfectly acceptable finish.

would imagine an hour tops to cut and fit? just not sure of cost of the plastic.

any ideas would be much appreciated. ta:)

Not quite sure what your asking, but I fit windows for a living. I pay around £10 plus Vat for a 5m length of 200mm cappit board or gutter board as you call it. I usually charge £20 each window to clad the original window board, they take no more than 10 mins each.

HTH

Chris.

Not quite sure what your asking, but I fit windows for a living. I pay around £10 plus Vat for a 5m length of 200mm cappit board or gutter board as you call it. I usually charge £20 each window to clad the original window board, they take no more than 10 mins each.

HTH

Chris.

helps loads thanks chris, as you might have guessed i know naff all about what things are called;)

bit more info (which might have helped to start with) my dads having his dormer extension tiled and the guy has finished off the tile edges with cut cappit board top and sides as opposed to cementing it, then fitted this ledge to cover the leadwork under the window. the windows are an old cheap ally type and had no ledge to start with.

seeing as (i guess) he's saved himself time and money by not cementing, he now wants to charge for supply and fit of these ledges. now he's not just asking £50 here, so is he taking the piss or is there some reason why this might be a dear job?

cheers for you help:)

If I understand this correctly you are saying that he has covered the tile verge (the edge where you would normally fill with mortar) with cappit board. Or are you saying that he has fitted a barge board. This goes under the tile verge and serves to raise it slightly so that rainfall is directed down the rooftiles and into the gutter as apposed to over the side of the tile verge. Also are you saying that he has used cappit board as an external window cill and also to cover the lead apron.

yep, if you're talking of the verical edges, he's covered the tile verge with cappit board (looking at the sticker it says cover board, assume this is the same?) nothing obvious going under the tiles. also the same board to make the external cill covering the lead.

i've taken a few pics that will hopefully get over my inaccurate descriptions;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/hoskib/P1010107.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/hoskib/P1010103.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/hoskib/P1010104.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/hoskib/P1010105.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/hoskib/P1010106.jpg

thanks again chris, really much appreciated:)

Ahh now I see. Your dad has vertical tiles surrounding the window. Yes its standard practice to cap the edge of the tiles off. I have vertical tiles on my house surrounding the upstairs windows and mine are capped off the same. From the look of the pictures it appears he has done a quality job. As regards cost the woodgrain boards are far more expensive to buy than white and if you don't get a good discount from the suppliers like I do then it's hard to keep the costs down. If it were me that was doing the job, to cap the sides and top and fit a makeshift external cill as he has, if I were supplying the access equipment I would probably charge around £250. If there was already an existing scaffold in place as a result of other works then the price would come down to £175.
I would use easydec for access by the way. It's not cheap to buy.

Edited to add, I have just noticed that there is two dormer windows. So would charge a bit more.

HTH


Chris.

thought the pics might help!;) glad it's all above board and looking like a good job:)
the only sticking point is the price he's charging for the 2 cills. the capping work was ageed in lou of mortar (which was in the original qoute) so this side of things was qouted for ie the top and two sides.

however, the company owner came round saturday and told my mum (on her own) that he would be charging £110 for EACH cill for the material and fitting. sounds a touch extreme to me? the scaffolding was all up for the dormer work anyway so no extra hassle there.

if you were charging for just the cill material and fitting what would be a going rate chris?

Sorry for the late reply, If I was to just fit the cappit/cill to both windows and the access equipment was already in place then I would do the job for £100 the pair (£50 each). If the company doing the job is a proper window company then they will have negotiated good discounts from the supplier. If they are a general building company then they will have to pay more for the materials. As an example I would have to buy a 5 metre length of the woodgrain cappit and it would cost me around £25 +vat, the list price is around £150 I get 82.5% discount. The builder would struggle to get anywhere near that discount. I know this because I have a builder friend who asks me to get him materials with my discount as its far cheaper for him.

£110 per window is a little excessive as he will probably get the materials for no more than £60 and it would take no more than 1 hour to do the job.


Chris.

thanks for all the info chris, you've been a great help:thumb: