Fuse board upgrade price.

Josh95 · Oct 3, 2018

Hi,

What would you roughly charge for a fuse board upgrade on a 4 bed house?

Thanks

MG201 · Oct 6, 2018

Murdoch said:
3 hours for a CU change .................. never. I've spent 4 hours identifying all the circuits and outlets before doing anything before

I can only assume you don't test anything.

Basing the 3 hours on a previous reply

PaulUK1990 · Oct 7, 2018

For a 4 Bed house in Glasgow I would charge between £400 - £600 of EICR was good with no faults, more if no EICR.

Josh95 said:
Hi,

What would you roughly charge for a fuse board upgrade on a 4 bed house?

Thanks

TJ Anderson · Oct 7, 2018

I've adapted to what the market wants. I charge 250 cash for DB change now. I do them after work on way home. No cert. No worries. Customer supplies and picks up the board. I keep the old tails in as the load is same as before and saves some cash. I don't worry about bonding, but if it's there the I do terminate it most of the time. Broken rings get a 20A MCB. Low IR or circuits with earth leaky stuff goes on MCB only as I don't do call backs. I've never been so busy!!

MDJ · Oct 7, 2018

SparkyChick said:
Minor slip or your real feelings about your clients?

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MDJ said:
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That's really wrong MDJ

(Edited by staff, please refrain from the obvious swearing, remember we are in the public forum)!

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TJ Anderson said:
I've adapted to what the market wants. I charge 250 cash for DB change now. I do them after work on way home. No cert. No worries. Customer supplies and picks up the board. I keep the old tails in as the load is same as before and saves some cash. I don't worry about bonding, but if it's there the I do terminate it most of the time. Broken rings get a 20A MCB. Low IR or circuits with earth leaky stuff goes on MCB only as I don't do call backs. I've never been so busy!!

I don't know wether your being sarcastic or serious.
I'd give a smiley face if it's sarcastic. And a dislike or even dumb if it's serious.

Wilko · Oct 7, 2018

Paignton pete said:
I don't know wether your being sarcastic or serious.
I'd give a smiley face if it's sarcastic. And a dislike or even dumb if it's serious.

Hi Pete - I'm sure it's sarcasm

as we all know TJ goes straight to pub after work ( sarcasm alert ).

TJ Anderson · Oct 7, 2018

Paignton pete said:
I don't know wether your being sarcastic or serious.
I'd give a smiley face if it's sarcastic. And a dislike or even dumb if it's serious.

Thanks for that Pete!! Lol

, I'm not sure about giving you a dumb if you thought for second I was serious!

MFS Electrical · Oct 7, 2018

Billsays said:
As a result of doing K&Bs for about 18 years i've changed literally hundreds of CCUs so im pretty quick at them but no i was talking about just changing a CCU, but as i would have carried out a full EICR before doing the change a retest after is not going to take long is it?

Then the price of the EICR should be incorporated into the price of the cu change if i said to my customers 500 to change the board and got accepted then told them it would be an extra 200 for an EICR before I change it I’d either get kicked out or never get another CU change again if your doing an EICR every time before you change a CU that should be as part of the price for doing it.

Deleted account · Oct 7, 2018

TJ Anderson said:
Thanks for that Pete!! Lol , I'm not sure about giving you a dumb if you thought for second I was serious!

Just popped a smiley face on.

I very rarely put a dumb on any posts, but I nearly did there, pleased I didn't or it would have backfired as a dumb on me.