Fuse box installed for £150 what!!!

[1shortcircuit]

Well Firstly I reckon in the time it's taken me to read this thread at least 2 cu's could have been replaced

Secondly "QUALITY, NOT Quantity"

Thirdly, despite all the bickering and handbag swinging I have actually realised that regardless of how long it would have taken me (probably a complete day) it would more than likely have taken me more than 20 minutes to wander out to van, realise I'd forgotten keys, go back to house, walk back to van only to have to think what it was I went there for in the first place... Only to then have to search for my camera, walk back to the house and take a tidy picture after fine tuning some of the cables so that they looked presentable

I will say that this has been an amusing thread to read and I can't wait to see some more posts

 

[kung]

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Could this be done for £150.00? I doubt it! :stuart:

Dont be silly ! it will cost at least £151.00 !

 

[Goody]

If anyone is willing to do the job I have mentioned on my previous post for £150.00, I will pocket the difference myself; hey! hey! :rockon2:

 

[telectrix]

i'll do it for £374.95.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

374.94

 

[Goody]

My final offer is £174.99... take it or leave it!

(takers can PM me their sealed tenders along with proof of registration as a competent person & two references - price for the work should include necessary parts, fitting, trunking, fault rectification, testing, certification and tidying up after work. In general customer shouldn't complain at least for a couple of years after work has been done) :laugh:

 

[dingledong]

hallo i come to your country to do works i will do for £100 comrade

 

[seb77]

The installation in the pic is surely a new installation???. Alot easier and quicker to do..no messing about with labelling circuit cables,taking the old board out, short cables etc etc etc. And where do you get a wylex board(10 way dual RCD fully loaded) for £45???.

 

[trev]

The installation in the pic is surely a new installation???. Alot easier and quicker to do..no messing about with labelling circuit cables,taking the old board out, short cables etc etc etc. And where do you get a wylex board(10 way dual RCD fully loaded) for £45???.

My local wholesaler does them mate.

 

[seb77]

Fair play!!. which wholesaler?

 

[robsparky1975]

I have the £150 board change beaten,an owner of a care home said she had hers changed,she said the consumer unit was £50 and an "electrician" she knows only charged £50 to fit.I did offer to take over the annual testing on the care homes,but did explain that it would be more than £50 a time lol.we have to be like gas safe as this is getting silly and clearly the part p side of it has only been taken seriously by people in the trade.

 

[morph]

400 for 10 way but i will drop my price to 355 if you get me a fully loaded 10 way for £45

 

[Ponty Massive]

I'm paying £45 for the board plus £2 per mcb + VAT (wylex dual rcd)

 

[eskimo39]

I charge at £12 per hour for tracing unmarked circuits and faults

Arrive at job 8am, done and cleaned up by 9am, testing till 12pm, onto the next job, simples

I have a image in my head of everyone being the typical tradesman, tea drinking and paper reading, come on lets be honest how long does it take to change a DB and test the install?

Am i the only one who has the "Graft" idea?

And after all the age old saying go's "Stack em high, sell em cheap", the referrals i get from customers who were pleased with the work i carried out and the price is excellent, TBF i dont have a lot of overheads and im not greedy just pleased that i actually have some work

EDIT: and for anyone thinking " i bet the DB's are a mess "

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I don't think that is a "swap over" is it, I think most people can terminate a newly wired board in 1 hour but the original post said a swap.

 

[ppuch1]

A bit too much copper showing on the connections - poorly terminated in my opinion. Apart from that quite neat but cannot believe this is a board change but a new install when all prep work has been done first. If you are doing the same layout and same make and same cable layout then they could be done fairly quickly but 21 minutes ... can't be done properly!

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

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