Rough Price PIR???

[tired of it all]

When you get paid for a Periodic, you are being paid foryour experience, knowledge and expertise. You are in effect reaping the reward for all the evening classes, late nights on site, long drives to work, lessons you have learned (often by making mistakes), and years spent on site. It therefore seems reasonable to charge a bit more than you would for a day's installation work.
Although it can be done in less than a day, I charge the same for an "average" Periodic (say 5 hours to do a 3 bed house) as I do for a day's work. The figures and times quoted on this thread seem realistic to me.

If you want to do a "cheapie" test, try the Domestic Visual Condition report (the NICEIC have a special form for this, I don't know about other schemes).As the name suggests, this is visual only, although you could add a few Zs readings to sex it up a bit!
Bear in mind that if you do one of these, you are not putting your name to anything dodgy - you are simply saying "these are the checks I have done". Make sure your client realises the limitation of the visual test though; if you want to be sure give them a printed info sheet and maybe get them to sign an ok first.

 

[TPES]

I dont do that much pir work so decided on £20 per circuit with minimum charge of £80.

I know this is a very old thread..

Just wondering if your price for a PIR is the same, and how many circuits do you include for your £80? and then £20 per cct there after

 

[robsparky1975]

You gotta charge at least a day. Even if it only takes you half a day, what are you going to do with the other half day? Not get paid?!

And it is not a job to rush. I've heard of sparks just taking a few things off and doing the basic tests and making the rest up! If your going to do it you have to do it properly or you might as well not do it at all. After all, its gonna be your name on the bottom of the sheet!

If you go in with a cheap price you;re going to be racing to get it done, and when you get problems you'll be struggling like **** at 7pm thinking "Was it worth it?"

You should do it, take your time, take photos of defects, get the paperwork right. You'll know you've done a good job, and you'll be more confident next time.

never miind all these chancers that make it up in half a day.

So charge whatever you want for your days pay, then add 70 or 80 quid or so

very well said.

 

[robsparky1975]

I done a visual condition report a while back,th boss of the firm said a client had paid £60 for a full on periodic,i just laughed and said it took that long to fill out the paperwork,as mentioned the inspector has a lot of responsibility,time/money,what does it matter,if a house has never had a periodic test i would be inclined to do 100% all circuits,take up boards if poss,check for alterations etc,what does the new owner want,i have done shedloads of periodics on hotels and on a dining area,there were 12 brass globes fixed to wooden stantions,r1 & r2 readings non existant,closer inspection found 4 gang switch containing all wiring/feeds/lights out etc,all cpcs cut off????????????looked a tidy job of the lights themselves but good job they had not gone faulty to earth(earth what earth)

 

[robsparky1975]

Oops forgot to say i would charge £200 i think and allow a day for average 6-8 circuits,any more got to be 1 hour per circuit dependant on the size of property.

 

[Graeme Harrold]

Im charging £80 basic plus £20 per circuit. Take your time and work systematically through the board ensuring you know what is connected where. Lights and sockets can be a pain in bungalows, working out (if split) what is on each circuit.

Recently done an old house with 13 connected circuits only to find out one of them although wired didnt power anything. Have disconnected with a note left should the lady find something not working to give me a call back!!!

 

[TPES]

Im charging £80 basic plus £20 per circuit. !!!

So what you charging for a CU with 10 circuits? Are you charging per individual cct or per mcb/fuse?
As you could have a mcb with 3 circuits in it

How many circuits does your basic £80 include?

 

[rs250250]

Last set of sheets I came across the guy tested 20% fixed wiring which was 2 circuits!
That is pretty poor by my reckoning. There were plenty of limitations etc. He was niceic A/C..

I started off doing 90-100% but as I have become slightly more experienced I do no less than 70%
£25 p/circuit seems to work well if you want to be thorough