Rates for domestic periodic.

[kaminsky]

Hi everyone , just starting out have done 2 domestic periodic for £60 each , only took 4 hours .Is this a reasonable rate , thanks.

 

[Andy78]

Hi everyone , just starting out have done 2 domestic periodic for £60 each , only took 4 hours .Is this a reasonable rate , thanks.

If you are getting a lift to work, not paying tax, and living on baked beans, I'd say that's about right.

You're about £20 below what the cowboys round here charge for a 2 hour "drive by" inspection.

 

[Octopus]

Are you saying each periodic took 4 hours or 4 hours to do both?

Sounds mighty cheap to me.

What size were the properties?

 

[hightower]

4 hours to do 2 inspections, so 2 hours each? Did you even get out of the van?

 

[Andy78]

4 hours to do 2 inspections, so 2 hours each? Did you even get out of the van?

I thought he meant 4 hours each, but on re reading you could be right.. :S

 

[Spoon]

It's xmas time and the wind-ups are here...

 

[Andy78]

It's xmas time and the wind-ups are here...

Judging by some of the phone enquiries I've had this week, I think you're right.

 

[HandySparks]

Hi everyone , just starting out have done 2 domestic periodic for £60 each , only took 4 hours .Is this a reasonable rate , thanks.

No mate, it's a crap rate.

 

[hightower]

No mate, it's a crap rate.

To be fair, it's not a bad rate if he's only gonna do half a job of it.

 

[gutterball]

so your working for £15 per hour? I don't know what the going rate in your area is but I would have thought £15 to £30 per circuit.

 

[westward10]

If you are just starting out I would assume experience of periodic testing isn't high, maybe it is but to knock out two domestics is four hours is rapid, how many circuits were in each.

 

[Risteard]

Hi everyone , just starting out have done 2 domestic periodic for £60 each , only took 4 hours .Is this a reasonable rate , thanks.

It's criminal charging that as you are making people charging genuine rates for a genuine job uncompetitive.

It's funny how many people are astonished when I give them a price for an EICR in the north or a PIR in the south - they obviously expect stupid rates like the one you've quoted.

 

[GMES]

Are you saying each periodic took 4 hours or 4 hours to do both?

Sounds mighty cheap to me.

What size were the properties?

 

[Pete999]

Hi everyone , just starting out have done 2 domestic periodic for £60 each , only took 4 hours .Is this a reasonable rate , thanks.

No kaminsky it's not reasonable, it's just no possible despite what some may say, you are giving the decent Electricians a bad name £60 for an domestic PIR. laughable.

 

[Deleted member 72666]

Hi everyone , just starting out have done 2 domestic periodic for £60 each , only took 4 hours .Is this a reasonable rate , thanks.

For that price I can envisage the test results (real or otherwise) scribbled on the back of a smoke packet and stuck to the cu with blutac.