Prices per circuit

[Farmelectrics]

Thinking of starting my own testing company up I'm not going to invest in any test instruments just a pad a calculator and a stool to sit on why I make up my own results should be able to hundreds a day anyone interested joke of course but its were were heading with these rogue companies

 

[mackers]

test 70 circuits in a hospital in one day lol ,i'd be supprized if he could get permission to turn 7 circuits off in a day never mind 70
£30 a circuit or day work for me if people think its dear there welcome to jog on besides i dont paticularly like doing em anyway

 

[johnboy6083]

I was recently asked to give a price for testing a 21 room old people home. I said minimum of £700, that would be for me and a mate, and I was allowing 2 days at 10 hours. I don't think I was being unreasonable, but he said he expected it at half of that price.
furniture would have to be moved, I couldn't leave anything open ect. It all adds up

 

[somersetsparks]

It takes me that long to unplug peoples crap/move furniture identify which sockets are on which circuit etc.

 

[johnboy6083]

The last EICR I did, I worked out I averaged about 40 mins per circuit. This was at least 50% sampling, because if the age and condition. This included small repairs, and tracing/ fault finding.

 

[tigerpaul]

How can you walk away from a circuit that has been coded 1? without rectifying or locking off?

We were not allowed to fix anything, just report on the electrical condition. If I found anything dangerous I was to fill out a potentially dangerous defect report and get the manager to sign it and then report it to our manager the next working day.
I remember finding 160amp BS88 fuses feeding an essential services board had been replaced with small links made with 6mm green and yellow! If I had disconnected it I would have literally shut down the store and all the fridges freezers and cold stores would have been full of rotten food.
I was informed that I should leave it or I'd be finding myself a new job.,

 

[nikmet]

No UNG, not an 8 hour day, 7.5 hours..... not only that he's only on site for 6 hours max !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He used the final half hour to install and test a replacement C/U on way home for £150 :-D

 

[Engineer54]

These EICR test report sheets must have more LIM's than they have recorded data. Who is actually accepting these worthless EICR's?? That Hospital Engineering Manager mentioned above, wouldn't accept such EICR's as being compliant with his National hospital regulations (can't remember the official name of them. lol!!) Surely??