Pricing Kitchen rewire and consumer unit upgrade with bonding and Cert

[Octopus]

Out of interest if you are out of your apprenticeship ........... why aren't you a member of a CPS ?

Do you have PL ins?

 

[The Ghost]

I am going to put aside my suspicions on the name of Red Kipper sounds like a variant of Red Herring. Your price for testing is way out. First if you are going to change a C.U. then you would ideally do an EICR I charge £25 per circuit so that would be around £150 (at six circuits?) Seems to me that an eight way C.U. is a bit tight might have gone for a ten way for future needs. Then there may be remedial work such as the bonding you mentioned and maybe other on top say £200?? After you have completed the work and during the design and erection I would have to inspect what was going on and test as you go with a set of dead tests before commissioning the C.U. say another £100?? so straight away you are looking at £450. The materials around £200. Then the labour for the work £1100 so that's £1600 ish. Only STROMA allow third party sign offs so hopefully your mate is with STROMA. I am surprised if you have done your apprenticeship that you are not already able to sign off your own work with testing and commissioning experience hence I was thinking about your name RedKipper being some variant on a Red Herring If you can sign off your work then use it to register with a scheme. You have thirty days to test and issue a cert so plenty of time to arrange an assessment for the work.

 

[dave274]

Napit also do third party sign off but obviously it needs inspecting at first fix rather than when its all finished

 

[buzzlightyear]

Is to all sparks doing third party testing will your insurance cover if a place goes up in flames or t&ts up

 

[Wilko]

Hi - I see it's your first post, so welcome. But if you are doing it for a mate, don't you work it out between you? If you are doing it for business then after 3 years of working with an Electrician you should have plenty of experience with pricing?

 

[Midwest]

Never charged for an EICR prior to doing a CU change. Tested the install prior to ripping the old CU out, but never done an EICR for reasonably priced domestic CU change.

 

[Octopus]

Never charged for an EICR prior to doing a CU change. Tested the install prior to ripping the old CU out, but never done an EICR for reasonably priced domestic CU change.

Really ?

I have ............ seen a few awful sites where I've refused to give an CU change quote unless I'm allowed to do an EICR first ............

After the last one like this I told them not to bother with a new fuseboard and go for a rewire ............

 

[Midwest]

Really ?

I have ............ seen a few awful sites where I've refused to give an CU change quote unless I'm allowed to do an EICR first .........…

Yep. Granted there have been a few I wouldn't/hadn't touched with a barge pole, but tell me for a standard 3 bed semi, you'll have charged £250ish for an EICR first, then £400ish for the CU change next? I should of moved down to Woking

 

[Octopus]

Yep. Granted there have been a few I wouldn't/hadn't touched with a barge pole, but tell me for a standard 3 bed semi, you'll have charged £250ish for an EICR first, then £400ish for the CU change next? I should of moved down to Woking

Who said anything about charging £250 ?

 

[Midwest]

Who said anything about charging £250 ?

How much would you charge for such in this type of scenario?

 

[Octopus]

How much would you charge for such in this type of scenario?

I always visit before quoting ...........so hard to tell

 

[Midwest]

I always visit before quoting ...........so hard to tell

It was easy for me. If the job 'looked dodgy', I'd decline. If it was a straight forward vanilla flavoured job, I'd test before the day of removing CU, as part of my quotation for CU replacement. Any faults would be extra's.

So I've never charged for an EICR before a CU change.

 

[Jay 1987]

What does a third party sign off mean ?

 

[Midwest]

Inspected & tested by registered 3rd party electrician, installation carried out by another.
Not sure if it’s practice in Wales. Only two of the schemes are registered, Napit being one of them. Specific procedure to be followed, apparently.