EICR price work, thoughts please....

[leep82]

Very interested in peoples opinions on this thread title. Basically ive been sub contracting to a company who have recently won a contract to carry out EICR and any remedial works on a number of propertys local to me. Im being fed the usual lines of how much money i could make but i’ll be honest alarm bells started to ring as soon as it was suggested the work would be on a price.

Although i am keen to carry out more EICR’s i dont think it is work that should be rushed, as ultimately it will be my name going on the cert. I have found out today that the actual price per property is £40, which i think is absolutely ridiculous. I dont know if these reports will be a percentage or the whole of the installation, but regardless of that i feel i will be rushing to make my money which as ive already stated i dont like to do when i test. There is a fixed price for any remedial work that needs to be done which i believe is £15, again ridiculous IMO. What if the remedial work takes an hour??

Personaly, feel like i need to give this a wide bearth, any other thoughts/opinions much appreciated.

 

[Octopus]

I won’t do an EICR for less than £200 now.

Not even a bedsit?

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Not even a bedsit?

No, not even for a bedsit.
I charge a day rate, as I couldn’t say in advance how long it will take and I would not be able to book other work for that day.
Saying that though, there was an occasion when I didn’t charge at all. Inspected a mate’s mum’s house after a rewireable fuse and blown due to a faulty cooker.
Whoever installed the cookertried to scare her into having a require.
After a fairly short inspection and the normal tests, I explained to her there was nothing really wrong, the fuse had done exactly what it should have done, and that a require just wasn’t worth the expense.

 

[Anthony S]

Its a race to the bottom anything to do domestic. Stack the work high and sell it cheap and its working a treat.

 

[sparksfly]

An EICR for £40 or £50 domestic is a joke...it is less than a rare visual I have charged for. I agree with most of the previous comments here. Ask yourself this.....what if something went wrong but you missed the obvious or did not carry out all the tests ?.....who's name is on the report ??. I have come across "letter box" electricians boasting 4-5 properties a day...but the written reports were less than useless....excessive use of the term "Lim" for test results. I have charged 4x cct flat for £120 four years ago...today £160. Av house around £190. The report is an MOT for the electrical installation with emphasis on SAFETY. I rejected (last year) £150 EICR from a letting agent for a two bed flat with 10x circuits incl PAT testing all heaters and appliances. I get it, it is hard sometimes when work is slow or you want to keep "regulars" happy but to what cost to yourself ? There will always be someone cheaper but cheaper for a reason !!....walk away with valid feedback that it is not economically viable or safe for the owner/occupants on that cost basis.

 

[JK-Electrical]

NICEIC badges plastered across there vans

Cor blimey .... blow me over ..... strike a light guv ..... stone the crows ..... knock me down with a feather.

 

[Pete999]

Which again seriously undermines the "statements" of the NICEIC - and before anyone shouts me down, they stand for improving standards ............................... which doing EICR's for £40 is absolutely NOT going to improve ANYTHING, least of all the companies bank balance or profitability.

Improving cashflow would be a better anology Murdoch

 

[leep82]

Needless to say i will be politely declining this work.

 

[AJshep]

I've thought about this a bit, if I were in this situation and this was the only work on the table then in this case I think I would establish a firm set of rules with the person's ordering the work first.

1) Every EICR I carried out I'd want the EIC so I could suitably compair the results, I'd only be happy to sample such a small amount and give it a suitable interval if I could suitably compare results with the original certificate, maximum time being 5 year's.

2) Id specifiy exactly what tests are going to be carried out (which we all agree would be minimal for that price) I'd make it clear in writing first and specify that this must be recorded on the test sheet so no pulling the wool over anyone's eyes, and the inspector is covering himself. (The reason I say this is because I know some company's have admin staff that type these tests up)

3) If no orignal EIC are provided,with satisfactory results I'd have to recommend the date of next test to be carried out the following year as only minimal test were carried out.
If they didn't like this Id explain that test intervals are only for guidance now, and it's down to the profession judgement of the inspector.

 

[Risteard]

didn't like this Id explain that test intervals are only for guidance now, and it's down to the profession judgement of the inspector.

That was always the case. They are only guidance for the period until the first Periodic Inspection and then the inspector will make a judgement about the timeframe during that for the next Periodic Inspection.