Pricing for SWA and EDF prep work

londonelec · Oct 29, 2009

Hi there I have been asked to put a quote in for the labour on running Armoured SWA cable to 6 flats and landlords supply (7 all in all).

There will be about 160 meters of 25mm SWA needed (Roughly).

Ryefield three phase board installed.

Glanded and connected to 6 consumer units, walls will need to be chased out along a hallway with doors made for access to the cable (chasing, clipping, screwing my job, boxing and doors will be chippies)

There is also a landlords consumer unit to provide and 100amp isolation switches after the meters to be installed as well.

and a 4 inch hole needs to be made for the EDF supply (about 1 meters worth)

I was thinking it would take about 5 days to complete, and would be happy with £400 a day?

They are supplying materials.

Would that be a fair price or am I ripping of the customer - or myself ?

Cheers
GREG

londonelec · Oct 30, 2009

Anyone ?

drywax · Oct 31, 2009

£400 a day seems a bit excessive I'm sure you'd be more than happy with that, I know some people it would take 2 weeks to earn that kind of money.

A tradesman ie chippy etc would probably charge £170 a day

For a Sparky I'd probably look at £200 - £ 250 and no more unless the poor buggers are willing to pay them sort of prices then hey they didn't see you coming

londonelec · Oct 31, 2009

drywax said:
£400 a day seems a bit excessive I'm sure you'd be more than happy with that, I know some people it would take 2 weeks to earn that kind of money.

What has labourers jobs got to do with my prices

Bosses of banks get 30,000 a month!

drywax said:
A tradesman ie chippy etc would probably charge £170 a day

A architect will probably charge 100 an hour

drywax said:
For a Sparky I'd probably look at £200 - £ 250 and no more unless the poor buggers are willing to pay them sort of prices then hey they didn't see you coming

So would I £250 a day I would be happy with aswell. I should of said in my original post that I also will have two lads with me doing the work. on my own it would take about 2 weeks to complete this there is so much chasing to do!

Thanks for the reply, has any other sparkies got an opinion on a good price, is £250 a goods days money. I just had the impression when dealing with EDF and Precise work like that you might put on extras.

GREG

boatnik1 · Nov 1, 2009

Sounds like you might be priceing yourself into a rest period. Probably 90% of the job is bare knuckle work to sub out to labourers at £10-£12 an hour, helpers job at similar rate to screw and clip cables and your job to terminate at £25-£30 an hour or maybe in your neck of the woods there is loads of work and no sparks so people have to pay over the odds to get work done. Landlords are not renowned for paying over the odds.