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  1. Fitzy

    Newbie pricing help please.

    Luckily enough it’s a bare bedroom, the customer is remodelling as it’s the master bedroom, no carpets just bare boards, all walls to be re-skimmed and made good, then decorated, carpeted and new expensive light up dressing table being fitted. As I said he has a detailed drawing of each room in...
  2. Fitzy

    Newbie pricing help please.

    I’m not going full time working for myself just yet, got a few years of gaining experience yet, this is just gonna be on my days off as I work shifts, so get a good set of days off all the time. My aim is to go part at my main job and be a sparky part time as well, it’s too late in my life to...
  3. Fitzy

    Newbie pricing help please.

    Good news.....The customer has accepted my quote of £150 for 3 hours, plus materials (guessed at £50), one wall is a plasterboard stud wall, so pretty simple to mount the back box (he has a room plan from when the house was rewired 5-6 years ago and the cables run alongside both walls), the...
  4. Fitzy

    Newbie pricing help please.

    As said previously, it has to be worthwhile to do the job, so based on the previous comments, £65 to install a new socket seems reasonable to me. I’ve quoted the job at 2-3 hours and they only pay for the time it takes, if it goes over 3 hours I’ll suck it up to begin with, I’ll get...
  5. Fitzy

    Newbie pricing help please.

    Obviously the £65 per hour is for odd jobs here and there, if I’m quoting on jobs that’s going to take a full day I’ll have a set day rate. I’ve already got full time job at the moment so it’s not about the money at present, it’s more about going the invaluable experience, so if I have to lower...
  6. Fitzy

    Newbie pricing help please.

    Good idea Nobbin, but as I found out on my training courses the USB socket plates haven’t yet been awarded a BS or CE Kite mark, so technically don’t comply with the BS7671 wiring regs. I’ve decided to charge £65 per hour and if it’s a notifiable job I can use for my assessment I’ll do a deal...
  7. Fitzy

    Newbie pricing help please.

    Thanks guys, I’m gonna quote them 2-3 hours, but only charge what it actually takes me, plus materials. They’re both going in to the same bedroom, so I believe that’s enough time.
  8. Fitzy

    Newbie pricing help please.

    I based the £25 per hour on what one of my tutors said, but I now think that was for site work only. A quick google search in my area brings up an average of £65-£75 per hour and bigger jobs like rewires and Cu changes on a price per job, all plus materials. Are 2 new sockets realistic in 1...
  9. Fitzy

    Newbie pricing help please.

    I've been asked to add a couple of new sockets to ring final and was unsure on how to price the job. Per hour plus materials or a set price based on the individual jobs. Per hour I thought about £25 plus materials or £40-£50 plus materials per individual job. I'm not after what any of you...
  10. Fitzy

    Newbie to the forum, please be gentle.....

    The course/s are only to get you past the city & Guilds exams, it doesn’t mean I’m experienced in any way, shape or form, the learning of experience starts now, I’m not gonna take anything for granted and will keep my feet firmly on the ground and not take anything on that’s above my head or...
  11. Fitzy

    Kitchen rewire (refurbishment)

    By the way, thanks for the replies and warm welcome. :) :) :)
  12. Fitzy

    Kitchen rewire (refurbishment)

    I checked the BC fees where I live in the Reigate & Banstead area and electrical work is £306 plus VAT.....OUCH!!! That’s more than what I’ve seen other sparkies charging for a complete CU change.....
  13. Fitzy

    Kitchen rewire (refurbishment)

    I’ve just completed City & Guilds 2393 Part P, 2392-10 Inspecting & Testing and 2382-15 17th Edition Wiring Regs, I’m now on the looooong learning curve of gaining experience, hence why I’m only going to be doing small jobs to start with, not gonna run before I can walk. Obviously I’m gonna need...
  14. Fitzy

    Kitchen rewire (refurbishment)

    I’ve just completed City & Guilds 2393 Part P, 2392-10 Inspecting & Testing and 2382-15 17th Edition Wiring Regs, I’m now on the looooong learning curve of gaining experience, hence why I’m only going to be doing small jobs to start with, not gonna run before I can walk. Obviously I’m gonna need...
  15. Fitzy

    Kitchen rewire (refurbishment)

    Thanks for your replies guys, much appreciated, I’ve alresdy got my C&G Part “P” qualification, just need to get registered with one of the schemes. Would the electrical building control fee be payable separately or already included in the fees my nieces partner has already paid in the refurb...
  16. Fitzy

    Kitchen rewire (refurbishment)

    Hi Guys Newbie here. I’m newly qualified and my nieces partner who does building work, extensions, kitchen refurbs etc is going to put some work my way, so I can start gaining some experience, but I can’t find an answer to whether a room rewire i.e. kitchen refurb using the original CU &...
  17. Fitzy

    Newbie to the forum, please be gentle.....

    I’ve got a full time job working shifts at Gatwick Airport, so have plenty of days off, so electrics is just gonna be a sideline to begin with on my days off, then maybe go part time at work (if the electrical side allows me to), then maybe go full time sparky, but all that is years away yet...
  18. Fitzy

    Newbie to the forum, please be gentle.....

    Hi guys My names Dave (Fitzy), been lurking on forum for a while, reading as many posts as I could to gauge how you all interact etc. Some of you will hate me because I done a 4 week course with Trade Skills 4 U to become a domestic installer. I know I have a huge learning curve to overcome...

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