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Anyone know a cheaper welder around midlands?


Exy

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Hello everybody.

I only wondering if exist a cheaper boat welders around the midlands (Milton Kneys) who charge less than £140 por day. Our boat needs a new back deck, new cooling thanks, gas locks everything in that zone. There will be probably more than 20 days of work.

 

Thanks in advance 

Erik 

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I would have said £140 a day is cheap for a half-decent welder.  A cheap welder might take twice as long as someone who knows what he is doing.  Will they be supplying and cutting the steel for that as well?

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25 minutes ago, dor said:

I would have said £140 a day is cheap for a half-decent welder.  A cheap welder might take twice as long as someone who knows what he is doing.

Why would anyone who’s half decent bother getting out of bed for less than £140/day? I pay that much to jobbing builder-types who can do a bit of bricklaying, a bit of plastering etc. I’d expect to pay more than that for a specialist. 

If you think £140/day is expensive, wait and see how much ‘cheap’ costs you...

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8 minutes ago, Ray T said:

Buy cheap - get cheap:

http://narrowboat-renovation.blogspot.co.uk/

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Not connected or affected in any way shape of form.

Heavens that is truly shocking! 

I was about to post something along the lines of suggesting the opening poster turns the question around and asks how much they can afford to lose when you posted that.

There are some real horror stories out there, If anyone needs any further pursuasion regarding paying good money to get a proper job done talk to a boatyard with a really good reputation about how much work they get from putting right what has been done wrong by other people before them 

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Makes you wonder just how many incompetent boatyards there are out there.

With our second shared ownership boat we had numerous ongoing problems that two boatyards couldn't satisfactorily resolve. Yet when we moved to Norbury Junction they sorted them out quickly and cheaply.

Perhaps we should have a list of recommended boatyards (where perhaps 10 recommendation from forum members are required to get on the list) pinned for easy reference? 

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Extreme solution idea maybe....

 Where are the famous scraps boat places os cemetery for have a look if I found another cruiser stern back deck?

Cut out the old one and weld another in good condition could be save time and money? 

 

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On 26/10/2017 at 10:24, nb Innisfree said:

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur"

Red Adair

 

My FAVOURITE quotation, and I haven't used it for a while. Thanks for reminding me  of it :cheers:

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1 hour ago, Exy said:

Extreme solution idea maybe....

 Where are the famous scraps boat places os cemetery for have a look if I found another cruiser stern back deck?

Cut out the old one and weld another in good condition could be save time and money? 

 

With out sounding or intending to be rude it comes across as you are really on the raggy edge price wise for repairs/renovation to your boat is there no one you know or yourself that could do the lesser skilled work & pay a quality welder to do the bits that matter

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3 hours ago, Exy said:

Extreme solution idea maybe....

 Where are the famous scraps boat places os cemetery for have a look if I found another cruiser stern back deck?

Cut out the old one and weld another in good condition could be save time and money? 

 

 

I really doubt you'd be able to buy a complete stern section worth welding on. And if you could, it would probably be a cost a good deal more than the £2800 repair price you are trying to reduce, even witout the (massive) costs of docking the boat(s) and actually cutting and welding the both of them.

(Any narrowboat being scrapped will only be getting scrapped because it is a total rust bucket not worth repairing.)

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any welder who charges £140/day is not a proper welder.  full stop.

standard rates even for semi-skilled labour these days in the southern half of England is about £150.

I would expect to pay a competent general purpose fabrication welder between £200 and £250 per day, and a good coded welder at least £300.

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On 10/25/2017 at 13:26, Exy said:

Our boat needs a new back deck, new cooling thanks, gas locks everything in that zone. There will be probably more than 20 days of work.

 

 

Going back and starting at the beginning, this all seems highly unusual and raises a LOT of questions in my mind. 

How/why do you know all this stuff needs doing? Can you post up some photos? Have you just bought the boat and found all this work 'needs' doing? Or had it for years and years? How did it get to be in such bad condition if in your custody? And why did you buy such a colander if you purchased recently?

My gut feeling is you may have had a surveyor putting the wind up you and there is perhaps bugger-all wrong with it. 

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