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. That’s 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 I’m having done (but not yet started as price not yet agreed). I’m 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.

I’m 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?
 
Thanks for the feedback.

So would you three guys like to say how much you think the seven-piece set should cost? Can you say where the pricing I've given is too expensive?

Oman is generally cheaper than the UK, but not in everything and I'm not sure by how much. (If you're interested, diesel costs 22 pence a litre and petrol costs 18 pence, but that's getting off the subject).I mentioned that Landrover's labour charge is equiv 17.40 GBP per hour and that the guys actually doing the work in a metalwork shop would get not more than equiv. 190 GBP per month. I suppose factors like that might bear on the cost of making and fitting security grilles for vehicle windows.

Or if you like to think in terms of UK prices, please do so.
 
Simmonites sell a two-piece rear side set for GBP 99.99. On a pro-rata basis (area in sq. metres), the remaining four grilles would be priced at GBP 63 and GBP 80 (each, per pair). The windscreen grille would cost GBP 110. That's a total of GBP 353 for grilles that are basically one piece of stamped-out metal, aren't they, perhaps on a ship from Shenzhen. (I already have a rear set of three, bought in the UK: not much to shout about and well rusted after 12 months, especially the two small ones (fittted outside).

If grilles are being made in a workshop, to measure, as you know first the frames have to be measured and made, then the grille is cut and welded, etc. etc. There's some amount of work involved there.
 
Thanks for the feedback.

So would you three guys like to say how much you think the seven-piece set should cost? Can you say where the pricing I've given is too expensive?

Oman is generally cheaper than the UK, but not in everything and I'm not sure by how much. (If you're interested, diesel costs 22 pence a litre and petrol costs 18 pence, but that's getting off the subject).I mentioned that Landrover's labour charge is equiv 17.40 GBP per hour and that the guys actually doing the work in a metalwork shop would get not more than equiv. 190 GBP per month. I suppose factors like that might bear on the cost of making and fitting security grilles for vehicle windows.

Or if you like to think in terms of UK prices, please do so.
maybe a couple o days work tope for a metal worker
and materials int that dear
i reckon half of what youve been quoted tops yer gotta haggle in these places first price is always high and you should start way low in meet in the middle
 
cos he lives in the middle east and they have a nasty habit of killing and robbing each other????
 
ffs i fink im avin day jar view, im sure poppppitallova as posted this before,

ffs i fink im avin day jar view, im sure poppppitalova as posted this before,

ffs i fink im avin day jar view, im sure poppppitalova as posted this before
 
Thanks again. My answers to a couple of points:

Oman is extremely safe and crime is as low as it's likely to be in any place on earth. However, we are in the preparation stages of a long trip and want to be able to park the vehicle anywhere and feel it's as secure as it can be. All our belongings will be in it and breaking any window is the easiest thing. (Added door security will follow; anti-theft in hand.)
 

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