Why is it always sparks who get down graded. It's radiclous, train for so many years to work to a strict regulations and in the end we get asked can you change 1 double socket for me? I live 20 miles away. Can you do it for £10. Yeh sure darling I will definatly leave my missus and kids at home and drive to you 20 miles away to change your socket. Ridcolous. When a gas engineer comes out oh madam this part is fu**** you will need to pay £400 to replace. Sure we will I will get my cheque book. I feel out trade is sooooo down graded for the graft we do
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Octopus
I wouldn't leave the house for a £10.00 job and nobody else should either.
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GMES
You need to build a decent customer base or get out of the domestic trade, either one will work
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Leesparkykent
i wouldnt wipe the sleep out my eyes in morning to even entertain the thought of doing a job for £10.
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bigdavs83
Just nope
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trev
I had an asian woman ring me a few weeks back, went down to see her and gave her the price. She then said the job was only worth £20. I walked away.
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Geordie Spark
Then train and get your ticket to work on gas as well then you have two strings to your bow.
I had an Emergancy call New Year's Eve. immersion not working in a tenanted property. Owner 100+ miles away. He also wired the house himself. Asked if I was working and I said no., on holiday. Asked how quickly I could attend. The line went quiet when I said 6 months. He then asked if I was that busy. No said I, but that's how long you took to pay me last time I did a job for you. Happy New Year and phone call ended.
Chancers wanting £10 jobs and bad payers need dealing with! Let them pay dangerous Dave or Rodger the bodger to do their work.
Chancers wanting £10 jobs and bad payers need dealing with! Let them pay dangerous Dave or Rodger the bodger to do their work.
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Silly Sausage
Then train and get your ticket to work on gas as well then you have two strings to your bow.
I almost did that about 12 years ago, still got the CORGI Training material, which still comes in handy! :wink_smile:
just state on adverts that thers is a £50 call out fee out of hours.
put working day hours as 9-5 ^^
sorted
put working day hours as 9-5 ^^
sorted
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Adam W
This is one of the reasons I don't do domestic. I like to think I entered the trade with an open mind, and I have been rewarded by working in several different areas and many interesting places as a result.
These 5WWs seem to have 'retrained' with a very fixed idea of driving around in a signwritten van doing rapid response remedials and alterations, and that's exactly what they've made their market.
The customer probably thinks this is perfectly reasonable - that you or one of the other vans in your fleet can just stop off on your way between jobs and pop in for half an hour or however long they've decided it will take you.
I expect she'll call every electrician and DI in the phone book demanding they come out and change her socket for a tenner before declaring 'you can't get an electrician for love nor money'.
Or maybe the domestic trade isn't like that at all. Maybe it's me that's making the assumptions.
These 5WWs seem to have 'retrained' with a very fixed idea of driving around in a signwritten van doing rapid response remedials and alterations, and that's exactly what they've made their market.
The customer probably thinks this is perfectly reasonable - that you or one of the other vans in your fleet can just stop off on your way between jobs and pop in for half an hour or however long they've decided it will take you.
I expect she'll call every electrician and DI in the phone book demanding they come out and change her socket for a tenner before declaring 'you can't get an electrician for love nor money'.
Or maybe the domestic trade isn't like that at all. Maybe it's me that's making the assumptions.
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Octopus
Have a minimum charge and stick to it. Any fool can be a busy fool doing jobs for £10 or £20 - but it'll be tedious work and difficult to make any money... unless you are doing it for cash whilst on benefits.
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Lazlo
£x min charge out and £x an hour thereafter for jobs inside office hours, add more for outside office hours, have a .pdf/printed price list, if they don't like it they can get some muppet round to do it for peanuts and probably bodge it. Listen very carefully to the customers description of the job/fault to ensure you're not drawn into something terrible that you wish you had just turned away.......
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vernam616
Granted £10 is very low....
But you do have to speculate to accumulate
Ive done plenty of very small cheap jobs which have eventually led to bigger jobs such as rewires, DB upgrades etc... and reclaimed the money via them jobs
But you do have to speculate to accumulate
Ive done plenty of very small cheap jobs which have eventually led to bigger jobs such as rewires, DB upgrades etc... and reclaimed the money via them jobs
Yes that saying looking after the small jobs and the big jobs will look after themselves. But need paid accordingly for the small jobs as well, rather than take a hit on them and hoping it draws a big job from it - it just doesn't make sense.
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vernam616
Well its always worked for me, and not only that i get good recommendations to family and friends, money makes money doesnt it
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Leesparkykent
yea but you have to be making money to make money lol
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vernam616
Never failed for me, had plenty of bigger jobs from the smaller paid ones, whether or not it works for you doesnt really bother me, i just know it works for me, basic business sense really
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Geordie Spark
Just DO IT!!
You KNOW it makes sense!!
If I hadn't gone poorly when I did I would be working on four four bedroom new builds right now - wiring, plumbing & heating, alarms, security lights, bathroom & kitchen fitting.
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The Electrician
£25 minimum price per job (plus extra for mileage/travel time if it is more than a couple of miles away), then £25 per hour on top of that. That is what you should be charging MINIMUM as a qualified electrician.
Then on top of that add on the money for cable/parts etc plus a little bit extra commission/beer money if you want.
The problem we have now is there are too many electricians scrambling around for work and underpricing each other to get the jobs,and then on top of that you have mickey mouse 5 week courses that someone can do and go out and do electrical work without the proper training and competence required. The result of that is electricians earning less money than someone with no qualifications doing manual labour factory work.
Electrical installation/maintainance is and should always be a professional job for professional people who get paid a good wage to do the job they do. No if/no buts, we all need to stick together and keep this profession from becoming a joke. Saying you are an electrician should be something to be proud of and you should be highly looked up to and respected
Then on top of that add on the money for cable/parts etc plus a little bit extra commission/beer money if you want.
The problem we have now is there are too many electricians scrambling around for work and underpricing each other to get the jobs,and then on top of that you have mickey mouse 5 week courses that someone can do and go out and do electrical work without the proper training and competence required. The result of that is electricians earning less money than someone with no qualifications doing manual labour factory work.
Electrical installation/maintainance is and should always be a professional job for professional people who get paid a good wage to do the job they do. No if/no buts, we all need to stick together and keep this profession from becoming a joke. Saying you are an electrician should be something to be proud of and you should be highly looked up to and respected
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