popotla
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I am having window grilles made for my LR Defender 110 CSW. I already have grilles across the back (two small side windows and the rear screen) and there will be new ones as follows: on each rear side window, on each rear passenger window, on each front (driver & front-seat passenger) window, and one on the windscreen. Thats seven new ones in total. All side grilles will be on the inside and detachable. The windscreen grille, also detachable, will be fixed to mountings attached to the front of the roof rack and to the metal bits to each side at the bottom of the windscreen.
The grilles themselves will be made of 3 mm steel, with 2.5 cm spaces.
My purpose in posting this is to ask, specifically, about the quoted price for the work Im having done (but not yet started as price not yet agreed). Im in Oman, no longer a cheap country nor a very expensive one (less costly than Europe, I think, but well above the cost of living in Thailand, for example. Landrover here charge GBP 17.40 per hour of labour, supposedly, but in practice it seems to be considerably less than this). The employees making and fitting the grilles would receive not more than GBP 190 a month.
Im curious to know how much the job would be likely to cost in Britain.
The quotation is as follows, for the total of six side windows and the windscreen: two 8 ft x 4 ft grille pieces, for cutting to size (not this much is needed but less cannot be bought): GBP 94; metal for seven frames: GBP 70; angle iron, as needed, for some of the (inside) mountings, and all nuts and bolts, etc.: GBP 35; all powder coating: GBP 130; labour: GBP 106. Total cost, GBP 435.
How does this seem, as regards cost?
The grilles themselves will be made of 3 mm steel, with 2.5 cm spaces.
My purpose in posting this is to ask, specifically, about the quoted price for the work Im having done (but not yet started as price not yet agreed). Im in Oman, no longer a cheap country nor a very expensive one (less costly than Europe, I think, but well above the cost of living in Thailand, for example. Landrover here charge GBP 17.40 per hour of labour, supposedly, but in practice it seems to be considerably less than this). The employees making and fitting the grilles would receive not more than GBP 190 a month.
Im curious to know how much the job would be likely to cost in Britain.
The quotation is as follows, for the total of six side windows and the windscreen: two 8 ft x 4 ft grille pieces, for cutting to size (not this much is needed but less cannot be bought): GBP 94; metal for seven frames: GBP 70; angle iron, as needed, for some of the (inside) mountings, and all nuts and bolts, etc.: GBP 35; all powder coating: GBP 130; labour: GBP 106. Total cost, GBP 435.
How does this seem, as regards cost?
