Pricing for a job need help

[JLHELEC]

Been asked to price for a job, customer is having attic done out so needs a few new circuits up there. Some more context I'm based in South Wales and house is 1950s awkward little.run from the board to up but the new socket's will all be on studs so minimal chasing. I'm so bad at pricing work it literally puts me off taking jobs on. CU is full so I proposed having a new CU dedicated for the loft and going from there.

New CU
X4 socket's one being usb
X2 1 gang 2 way switches
X6 spotlights
X1 optical smoke alarm, to be interlinked with existing smokes, so I gotta dick around with them also.

I was gunna just price materials plus 2 days labour @ day rate but I always feel like iv shafted myself when doing work for day rate as the jobs usually turn out to be -------'s just wondering if any of you lot were in my neck of the woods and interested to see what you'd charge or anyone would charge for that in general

 

[nicebutdim]

Seems to good to be true...there must be a catch

You have to apply.

 

[123]

From his previous posts @Brian Taylor has been a sparky for over 30 years. And mustn't have increased his prices since he started out.

8k a year take home, well you ain't gonna be paying any tax on £153.84 a week. Aldi is a tenner an hour, if you can get a job with them for 16 hours a week then you get a slight take home pay increase, holiday pay and some pension. A step in the right direction.

 

[Diddy]

Seems to good to be true...there must be a catch

Yeah the catch is you need to be a fully qualified electrician to the latest standards. If you look closely at the copy/pate i did from indeed you will note that there is 4 ad's there 3 offering over 40k and one offering £22-£23 per hour....So that's 4 jobs all with a "catch".
Right I'm off to watch the rest of the snooker now. I am done with the --- for tat. In my humble opinion you are either on the troll path or you simply are not qualified and you are just doing leccy work for friends...If that's the case you could earn more as a improver/electrical labourer.
I promise (myself) that I am done with this now lol. I'm actually working nearly a full day tomorrow so I need to rest now lol.



Sorry to OP as this has just distracted from your question which I hope has been answered. Think we said 3 days at your day rate and we assume/hope your day rate is high enough to actually cover your expected wages and your business costs from admin to fuel including every single pound that you spend to operate your business including sick pay/holiday pay/down times insurances and the plethora of stuff that MANY people overlook when they first start a business.

 

[JLHELEC]

Yeah the catch is you need to be a fully qualified electrician to the latest standards. If you look closely at the copy/pate i did from indeed you will note that there is 4 ad's there 3 offering over 40k and one offering £22-£23 per hour....So that's 4 jobs all with a "catch".
Right I'm off to watch the rest of the snooker now. I am done with the --- for tat. In my humble opinion you are either on the troll path or you simply are not qualified and you are just doing leccy work for friends...If that's the case you could earn more as a improver/electrical labourer.
I promise (myself) that I am done with this now lol. I'm actually working nearly a full day tomorrow so I need to rest now lol.



Sorry to OP as this has just distracted from your question which I hope has been answered. Think we said 3 days at your day rate and we assume/hope your day rate is high enough to actually cover your expected wages and your business costs from admin to fuel including every single pound that you spend to operate your business including sick pay/holiday pay/down times insurances and the plethora of stuff that MANY people overlook when they first start a business.

No need to apologise! My thoughts is this man is a troll no 2 ways about it

But appreciate all the genuine replies you've been great help, thank you.