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Suggested labour-only industry guide rate. Materials, transportation, site conditions, location and additional work may affect the provider's final quotation.
These labour-only industry guide rates are reference information. Project conditions, location and other applicable factors may result in additional charges. A provider's final quotation may therefore differ from these guide rates.
This is not a provider quotation, not a fixed retail price, and not a booking or payment amount.
| Work item | Industry guide labour rate | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Apply Bondcrete to concrete surfaces | J$163.00 | m2 |
| Build stone retaining wall in mortar | J$22,600.00 | m3 |
| Chase rough wall for ½–1-inch plumbing/electrical pipe | J$229.00 | metre |
| Chase rough wall for 1¼–2-inch plumbing/electrical pipe | J$311.00 | metre |
| Chase rough wall for 3–4-inch plumbing/electrical pipe | J$406.00 | metre |
| Cut-stone facing and pointed joints on 4-inch wall | J$21,708.00 | m2 |
| Cut-stone facing and pointed joints on 6-inch backing | J$22,591.00 | m2 |
| Cut-stone facing and pointed joints, extra over wall | J$16,640.00 | m2 |
| Fair-face ceilings | J$635.00 | m2 |
| Fair-face walls | J$498.00 | m2 |
| Form and finish small plumbing/electrical pipe opening through wall | J$70.00 | each |
| Form weep hole in thick stone wall | J$2,449.00 | each |
| Form weep hole in thin stone wall | J$1,438.00 | each |
| Hack concrete surfaces for rendering | J$544.00 | m2 |
| Labour to pour and settle ready-mix concrete | J$3,250.00 | m3 |
| Lay 12 × 12-inch breather blocks and rake joints | J$3,136.00 | m2 |
| Lay 4-inch blocks with alternate filled pockets, ground to first floor | J$1,333.00 | m2 |
| Lay 4-inch blocks with alternate filled pockets, upper floors | J$1,481.00 | m2 |
| Lay 4-inch blocks, filled pockets, ground to first floor | J$1,523.00 | m2 |
| Lay 4-inch blocks, filled pockets, upper floors | J$1,666.00 | m2 |
| Lay 6 × 6-inch breather blocks and rake joints | J$5,331.00 | m2 |
| Lay 6-inch blocks with alternate filled pockets, ground to first floor | J$1,441.00 | m2 |
| Lay 6-inch blocks with alternate filled pockets, upper floors | J$1,666.00 | m2 |
| Lay 6-inch blocks, filled pockets, ground to first floor | J$1,666.00 | m2 |
| Lay 6-inch blocks, filled pockets, upper floors | J$1,904.00 | m2 |
| Lay 6-inch-high concrete louvres and rake joints | J$321.00 | each |
| Lay 8-inch blocks with alternate filled pockets, ground to first floor | J$1,616.00 | m2 |
| Lay 8-inch blocks with alternate filled pockets, upper floors | J$1,838.00 | m2 |
| Lay 8-inch blocks, filled pockets, ground to first floor | J$1,904.00 | m2 |
| Lay 8-inch blocks, filled pockets, upper-floor work | J$2,221.00 | m2 |
| Lay 9 × 9-inch breather blocks and rake joints | J$3,554.00 | m2 |
| Lay bricks/pavers and point and clean joints | J$7,067.00 | m2 |
| Lay bricks/pavers as edging and point and clean joints | J$813.00 | metre |
| Lay haunch and point kerbs | J$1,009.00 | metre |
| Lay paving slab on sand without pointing | J$275.00 | each |
| One-coat render to walls and ceilings | J$808.00 | m2 |
| Pebble-dash finish to walls | J$833.00 | m2 |
| Rod-off and broom-finish floor slab | J$702.00 | m2 |
| Rod-off and steel-float floor slab manually | J$1,045.00 | m2 |
| Rod-off and steel-float floor slab mechanically | J$498.00 | m2 |
| Rod-off floor slab to receive tiles or screed | J$205.00 | m2 |
| Rough-cast finish to ceilings | J$740.00 | m2 |
| Rough-cast finish to general walls | J$684.00 | m2 |
| Rough-cast Tyrolean finish to walls | J$833.00 | m2 |
| Set screeds to floors/roofs using mortar | J$227.00 | m2 |
| Steel-float finish to walls | J$1,403.00 | m2 |
| Trowel-finished coloured surface to walls, floors and driveways | J$808.00 | m2 |
| Tyrolean finish to walls | J$1,045.00 | m2 |