!...Is £495 to little to charge to supply & fit a consumer unit..?!

[morph]

i charge £400 for 10 way
£450 for 15 way

 

[Bradzz]

Hi are you VAT registerd

!...Is £495 to little to charge to supply & fit a consumer unit..?!

£35 x 7.5 £262.5 for a days wages
£150 for consumer unit and other costs eg petrol, ins, and other
+ vat at 20%
= £495

Any ideas..?

 

[flukey]

think i better up my rates standard house with no bonding to do i charge £350 for a 10 way mk/wylex and in my opinion thats a bloody good days money

 

[Bradzz]

That Sounds spot on to me, as you have input Insurance fuel, and all the rest, as the cost of living has gone up so should your prices.
PIR,
EIC,
Materials,
Running cost of vehicle,
Your time,
Insurance,
Warranty,
dont forget, you have to pay Tax NI.

 

[flukey]

perhaps thats why i am so busy

we have always had to pay these overheads and your right they have gone up considerably but i know exactly what would happen if i quoted £495 for a straight forward board change

 

[JD6400]

I know a fella thats just done a consumer unit for £65 how cheap is that

Well i am afraid he is a --- then !
Sorry if he is a mate but he just is not helping any one with that price ?

 

[Bradzz]

Me thinks a standard price needs to be set, not the sort in a spons book. A domestic intallers price book.
Im starting to think should i put 1 together, errmm. A book you can then give to your customer, and they can see what cost what.

 

[Kelrich]

Sorry fellas i should of explained it better but i was stuck at work.
He got the customer to buy cu and the rest of the gear, it was a 2nd cu in a garage which am told only required the circuits wired into board which took him a few hours, there was no power to the cu so he charged £65 to basically mount a cu and wire it, he wasnt a mate he was a builder i knew, still cheap in my eyes however i take it an electrician would of had to go and finish the job once the power supply had been fitted to the house

 

[brizospark]

fully rcd protected d.b £80 fit 3 hrs £75 test 2 hr £50 upgrade bonding / tails 1.5 hrs £40 extra material i.e bonding tails certs £60 = £305 plus vat

 

[brizospark]

It usually doesn't take all day but then again you dunno what you are going to come up against.

Make sure you suss the job out first i.e. are cables long enough

 

[nickblake]

so a builder changes a CU charges £65 , so for that there will be no cert and no notification and definatly not tested, the work that he has carried out is a contravention of Part P of the building regulations which is a legal requirement so he has commited an offence and there for should be reported ,

 

[nickblake]

It usually doesn't take all day but then again you dunno what you are going to come up against.

Make sure you suss the job out first i.e. are cables long enough

With testing the property properly it does , you cant do a good job in 5 minuits !!!!

 

[TPES]

With testing the property properly it does , you cant do a good job in 5 minuits !!!!

My thoughts exactly, I always allow a days labour for a CU change.. But that's because I take pride in my work and actually test all the circuits.

There's to many registered cowboys (they do exist..) changing the board in less than an hour and test cert done in half an hour then gone... These are the people I am loosing too, the customer doesn't care and usually knows no different anyway.

 

[JD6400]

My thoughts exactly, I always allow a days labor for a CU change.. But that's because I take pride in my work and actually test all the circuits.

There's to many registered cowboys (they do exist..) changing the board in less than an hour and test cert done in half an hour then gone... These are the people I am loosing too, the customer doesn't care and usually knows no different anyway.

Same here !
How can it not take at least half a day to do a pir , you show me a property out there that has no defects !
We have even tested new builds by the big boys and found way more than one and that particular property was only a one bed flat !
I don't even know for sure what constitutes allowing you to do just 10% / 50% it is 100% thats just what it is !
At my motors next mot i must remember to ask the fella doing it if he could just do 10 % of the safety check on my brakes if it might save me 20p on repairs !

 

[Electricalserv]

20 pound an hour. Are you being serious. You can earn more than that washing cars.

Depends where you are mate, sure Down London your looking at £35 an hour but remember jib rates are only £16 an hour and sometimes you can't be greedy to get the work, especially domestics. There's people who will do it for £100 a day