is this a fair price

[tonyjohn]

hi all,

i quoted a job today for £550, the job involves fuse board change (17th edition split board), kitchen rewire with 5 doubles sockets 2 spurs feeding dishwasher and washing machine and a seperate cooker circuit. Also taking a swa to garage with small board feeding 2 sockets and two flourecents. also to run lighting, power and a shower cable to loft for future loft convertion. i quoted £550 thinking this was a good price but got told i was a rip off merchant. is this a fair price?

 

[Strima]

Was that including materials?

 

[Plonker 3]

Depends on your location.

Sounds quite cheap to me, with out seeing the job, a DB change could be £300 on its own. Kitchen rewire would be half a days labour for first and second fix if no patching up to be done. Garage power another half day with a reasonable short run of SWA. SO there 2 days labour add on parts for the garage and kitchen. Plus all your Part P registration etc.

 

[Plonker 3]

Was that including materials?

Even without I would say that was a reasonable price. Potentially 2 and half days work.

 

[tonyjohn]

yes that is with materials, its in the maidstone area of kent. it should be quite an easy job i was thinking 2 and half days. i usually charge more but for a cousins mate i thought i would be nice and go a bit cheaper. he seems to think he can ring up some sparks and get a much cheaper price so when he comes back to me im going to tell him to jog on haha

 

[Ponty Massive]

Rough price from me would have been £1240. (depends on run to the garage)

 

[Strima]

At that price he should have ripped your arm off.

 

[J&M Electrical]

Far too cheap IMO. We charge £250-£300 just for an average board change and test. The materials for the kitchen and garage will take you up to your price.



Not a bad price if your working labour free

I agree with Ponty Massive, around the £1200 mark for me

 

[RISElectrical]

Way way to cheap mate. Double that for us

 

[wade88]

I would have been going in at double that also - £550 is very cheap.

Tell you what - at those rates, you can come work for me, charge me your rate per job and ill keep the rest....deal?

 

[Wiredspark]

Way too cheap mate. I can't see how your gonna make a profit on that regardless of length of run to garage. x2 approx for me.

 

[andydj99]

very cheap price. he will be back when he gets more quotes in

 

[telectrix]

well cheap. i would have thought around £800-£900.

 

[DPhilpott]

£1200 min, plus VAT for me

 

[Knobhead]

I’m you mothers uncles cousin twice removed. I want my 5 bed house rewired for £300 all in. how you fixed?

Your cousins mate? Where the hell does that come in to it?