Quote me

[Staffie]

Just give me a rough quote for this job!

It's on a dairy farm 7 mile from home. I've done a few jobs already, I gave him my quote and he was pretty shocked at my price and thought it seemed expensive? I thought I was pretty cheap, and could quite happily stuck another 200 quid on it!

Let's see who gets the job. I'll post my price a little later on...

Materials;

1x400w hqi flood
1x250hqi flood
2x400w high bay son-e (second-hand crompton's)
1x70w twin anti corrosive hf batten fitting
50m of 2.5 3 core sy
50m of 2.5 3 core swa
1x resin joint kit
1x masterseal light switch
2 bags of cleats
M10 nuts, bolts, anchor eye bolts etc

Labour;

* High bays will be hung on chain, 5m up in a barn, cable run to last fitting about 30m
* 400w hqi on front of barn at the apex about 6m up, cable run about 10m
* 250w hqi at rear of barn at the apex about 6m up, cable run around 30m
* Floodlights will be fixed by drilling into 5mm steel trusses
* remove old batten fitting and replace with new twin, and re cable, cable run from switch about 7m
* joint existing swa for 400w hqi with around 7m of cable, already connected to existing switch
* Remove old 500w TH fitting, already connected to switch, this circuit will be used for the son's but new cable used and run about 30m

This job requires a cherry picker which I have access to (free of charge to me) ex e-on landie

 

[Johno]

about a grand

 

[bugsy]

£1,750.00

 

[flukey]

£1400 ish

 

[m4tty]

£1395 :d

 

[Phil]

100 taka`s

 

[rocker]

Lifetime supply of semi-skimmed.

 

[rossiboy]

The client dont know the cherry pickers free i would say min of £1,900

 

[Phil]

once quoted for a 5 bed house with a garage board outside socket pir light etc. price I gave included a shower. gave him the price and nearly had to revive him. how much was you expecting? i asked. "a grand at the very most" reckoned he had been quoted already. yeh right. i told him the bits would be as much. ended up doing the job, but that was another story

 

[Staffie]

Well, now I know I'm way to cheap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I quoted him..................£619! My initial estimate was about £700, his face said it all, so I reduced what I was making on the light units, rang him back the next day with the new quote. There could be quite a lot of work to come on the farm, and it's close by. The farming community is quite 'clicky', so pays for me to be 'keen' on my quotes. Obviously too keen.....

I've only been trading in this area for about a year, so I need to gather some clients. It's a getting the price right, to cheap and people wonder 'what's the catch?' To expensive and they keel over and show you the door?!

To be fair, I scrounged the high bays off one of my regular clients when I took them down and replaced them with some Thorlux T5 units (fab light units btw)

The HQI's I get for a steal at £30 each, same for the hf batten fitting!

I stand to make about £320 for the day

 

[pennywise]

didn't know you where running a charity , only joking m8, think the quotes of between £1500-£2000 where near enough on the money. Are there two of you, thinking it will take more than a day to install and test what you've mentioned personal opinion.

 

[flukey]

blimey, you are cheap my estimate was with the picker as a freebie too, if he had to pay for that as well he would have had a proper shock at my quote

 

[Griffin]

£619!!!!

Just a well wrap the buisness up that price, What is your margin on that

Next to nothing i bet

G

 

[bugsy]

Much too cheap, he dosent know you getting the cherry picker for free, and I bet you don't complete in one day,. Trouble is you will be setting a precedent for you costs.
Next time you quote a job you won't be getting the fittings free, the plant won't be free so your going to be quite a bit more expensive and he might think your ripping him off .

 

[flukey]

seems a lot to do in one day for very little reward. i think i would move on to the next one. he will soon be on the phone once he has had alternative quotes