Fuse box installed for £150 what!!!

[1shortcircuit]

I had a text alert come in whilst I was still snoozing this morning.

"I need a replacement fuseboard" Approx budget £250 cost of lead 9.00 plus VAT = Put phone back down and continued to snooze for quite a while longer lol I was hoping it was a bad dream but I checked my phone when I actually surfaced and chuckled at the fact that the message was there.

Perhaps it was just a four way board and fault free? Still don't give a monkeys

 

[Paul.M]

I had a text alert come in whilst I was still snoozing this morning.

"I need a replacement fuseboard" Approx budget £250 cost of lead 9.00 plus VAT = Put phone back down and continued to snooze for quite a while longer lol I was hoping it was a bad dream but I checked my phone when I actually surfaced and chuckled at the fact that the message was there.

Yes mate it was me! I charge £400 and tell you via text what your getting LOL .

On the serious side of things, now that the general public/potential customers can price up materials for themselves on the net and then work out what they want to pay for labour it won't be long before they tell us our quotes!

 

[lloyd1980]

I used to charge 200 for the day, 150 for the board all in, wasnt VAT registered,
350 price for the job
I used to get the duel board for 70 all in and this included the tails and earth,
I had great relationship with the wholesaler and would chanrge me same price whatever the way duel board
My price didnt include upgrading the earthing or fault finding afterwards.
The price was for the board change only.

Job would take me 8am-12.30pm for the swap and the test.
Then lunch
Afternoon spent siting in the office at home with a cuppa filling in test sheets Invoice and notifying the job online.
280 quid in my pocket.

I would take mains changes 5 days a week , easy easy money.

A quick IR test of the ccts before starting tells you any potential probs, do this at the pricing stage, then if you get the job any ones with potential probs book in for the start of the week, to avoid the nightmare friday afternoon scenario when they need power for the weekend and RCD wont set.
Test at CU wont tell you if shared neutral on landing 2 way but even if there is then you just put both lighitng ccts on the same RCD so they have lights and then come back and rectify it.

Easy money easy work , a blissfull Friday job with the radio on and the pub to look forward to at 4pm

 

[Dave 85]

I normally ask £375 for a 15 way £350 for a 10. I wouldn't tell them its £200 for a day labour and £150 for the board though and then F off at half 12, it doesn't look good, just tell em the price and let them decide. But yeah easy money, If I could do 10 a week I'd be a happy man. The guy at the start of the thread who does em for £150 would make more money stacking shelves at asda.

 

[Stevesplatto]

£12PH? How does that work?
tax, accountant, van, insurances, CPS, tools, calibration, top up training, and and and
That's less than minimum wage why bother?
In London, just starting out self employed working on mostly pre war/victorian housing £350/day £50/h charging low to start with to get work. I quote a day worst case scenario (and it always is!). Materials? i charge at cost and include sundries in my labour rate, cant be bothered chasing £45 wylex's..
used to work as a chippie many years ago, always getting caught out undercharging, never again!

cheers
s

 

[hercule]

Just seen screwfix are doing split load mk boards with mcbs for £70 all in, thought might be of interest

 

[R4BOE]

Here is some more pictures for you if you would like to use them, and yes i am WELL AWARE they are 16th edition boards because the pictures were taken a while ago

View attachment 8478View attachment 8479View attachment 8480

has any one noticed the holes in the backs of the consumer units **** me gently, Vernam616 must have thought the backs of the unit should be missing like the old Wylex ones from the sixtys !!! pehaps they were "taken a while ago" with the consumer units brought back by Marty Mcfly in the Deloran in 1955

 

[jamie-spark]

Forgot to add the db install was fresh cables on a rewire, to be quite honest i dont really care if jamie-spark doesnt beleve it, ive seen it done with my own eyes, dont beat yourself up jamie if your not very quick or good

pay peanuts get monkeys

 

[R4BOE]

well said mate !

 

[gottahugenoggin]

has any one noticed the holes in the backs of the consumer units **** me gently, Vernam616 must have thought the backs of the unit should be missing like the old Wylex ones from the sixtys !!! pehaps they were "taken a while ago" with the consumer units brought back by Marty Mcfly in the Deloran in 1955

yep.....and the second photo (attachment8479)no back and mounted on a combustible surface :nono:

 

[R4BOE]

thats what i meant mate, pretty shocking if you will excuse the pun

 

[gottahugenoggin]

shocking to the value of 1.21 gigawatts to be precise!

 

[R4BOE]

lol doc

 

[Thomas123]

I offered to do a consumer unit change before for £150, (a relative's friend) as a favour, he said "that's a rip off im not paying that, british gas are coming to give me a quote next week any way..."

i walked away with a smug grin on my face, thinking what an idiot.. people dont like paying anything for electricians, as long as their tv is on they dont care if its safe or not..

They would rather pay more per hour for a tiler or painter... winds me right up

 

[richy3333]

people dont like paying anything for electricians, as long as their tv is on they dont care if its safe or not..

So true mate. So some days I hand out Dangerous Situation Reports like dolly-mixtures to cover my arse when the proverbial hits the fan!