House renovation_help needed

ramkee · Post by **ramkee** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:19 pm

Dear All,

We would like to renovate our house

- replacing bathroom sinks
- small bathtub (in child bathroom)
- Bathroom cabinet (in another bathroom)
- child gate to the steps
- deck in the backyard
- closing the kitchen with a door
- fencing in the front
- shutters to the windows
- shutters in the backyard (I dont know how to explain...its like artificial roof one can fold and adjust the length which has to be covered)
- some metal racks in the bathroom (just need to drill I guess)

we went to Bauhaus to buy the materials but the personnel costs are too high, i.e., if a person from Bauhaus comes to our place to fix the bathroom cabinet its like 200 euros or something like that. We are looking for somebody who can do the above mentioned things for a reasonable price. Please let me know if you have some information. One more thing is unfortunately we cant communicate in Finnish so somebody who can speak in English would be good.

Thank you for your time
Ramkee

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Skywalker · Post by **Skywalker** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:08 pm

Where in Finland are you situated?

dmd · Post by **dmd** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:12 pm

Well I totally rebuilt the interior of our last two houses,
including bathrooms and kitchens,
also a new very large shed, a garden play house that sleeps 4 for the kids,
16 RR tie 1,300 brick steps to the pool, etc etc.

Your needs do not sound so challenging.

Where are you located?

douglasdavie@comcast.net

ramkee · Post by **ramkee** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:28 am

Hi Skiwalker,

Thanks for your response. We are located in Espoo.

Ramkee

karel · Post by **karel** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:44 am

Your average handyman costs between 35 and 40 euros ex 22% VAT and kilometrikorvaus, so...

Try this guy -> http://www.homeimprovement.fi. He did our kitchen. His name is Jochem Vliek.
Neat and clean and for a good price.

ramkee · Post by **ramkee** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:05 am

Hi Karel,

Thank you for the link. I will contact him. What is this 35-40 euros ?

Ramkee

Upphew · Post by **Upphew** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:22 pm

ramkee wrote:Hi Karel,

Thank you for the link. I will contact him. What is this 35-40 euros ?

Ramkee

35-40€/h+VAT for labour. That is the price you should expect to pay. More, you are hiring wrong dude or you really want that one, significantly less and some/all money is not going to go to the books.

karel · Post by **karel** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:24 pm

Ah, sorry... I see I forgot to add the /hr.
It's the hour rate of the average handyman.

DMC · Post by **DMC** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:36 pm

Upphew wrote:35-40€/h+VAT for labour. That is the price you should expect to pay.

I guess it varies in different locations. Where I am (out in the sticks) it is more like 25 to 30 euro per hour.
Recent experience has confirmed for me that the hourly rate can be meaningless, since the amount different people do in an hour varies so much.

ramkee · Post by **ramkee** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:41 pm

Hi Upphew, karel and DMC,

Thank you so much for your inputs.

Ramkee

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