Talk about taking the P***

[Markyd]

Hope everyone is good...Just got back from seeing a client where i have got the job of running a new circuit for some garden power and wall lights....just asked if she had any other quotes and was told that another sparky who is NICEIC had quoted as well but was £150 more for labour,fair enough but he also quoted £400 for NOTIFYING Building Control...WTF

 

[pc1966]

I charge £45.00 pounds for LBC, and charge for the jobs has well. so if you think about it nowt comes cheap. When insurances, van and all the other thing that go with it.

I don't think anyone on here is against charging for your time and overheads to do a job. Factoring in £45 as the cost of what you feel is involved in supporting LBC notification is perfectly fine.

What I would object to is an "optional" cost that is not really a choice, not that your overall quote/bill includes your time and other expenses to do it.

 

[buzzlightyear]

really, all certs done onsite. Takes 2 mins if that to notify. I think your £45 is not right,but its your business good luck to you for getting it.

Never had a customer complain yet, lm out to make money not give it away,

 

[bigspark17]

Never had a customer complain yet, lm out to make money not give it away,

we are all diferent

 

[davesparks]

When I started out I used to put issuing the certificate and part P notification as a separate item on quotes with around £40.00 against it, but when someone questioned it I realised that it's daft to make it appear optional when it isn't.

So now all my quotes include the same line about issuing a certificate (plus part P as required, but have £0.00 against it.

 

[ipf]

I suppose it could be included as an item if they insist on a quotation breakdown, as with 'completion certs provided'.

Mind you, I had someone asking for a quote breakdown
last week. Private car dealer so he can stuff that. Probably specialises in breakdowns.
Arthur Daley without the trilby, perhaps?

 

[Dave OCD]

Testing and some form of certification is required on virtually all installation work and notification on a fair few so I just include the time it will take within the main quote, couldn't be simpler.

 

[ArtElectrics]

Hope everyone is good...Just got back from seeing a client where i have got the job of running a new circuit for some garden power and wall lights....just asked if she had any other quotes and was told that another sparky who is NICEIC had quoted as well but was £150 more for labour,fair enough but he also quoted £400 for NOTIFYING Building Control...WTF

Wow thats insane, maybe he has to bribe them every time to get them to sign off on his work LOL

 

[Midwest]

I used to make an admin charge for notification, only a small amount. Can’t recall exactly how much now, but like davesparks said, it was included in the overall invoice.

The actual time taken on the Certsure online site was only a few minutes. But nevertheless it was my time, so the customer pays. I suppose you larger companies, might have a different approach.

Up to a year after I had closed my business, I had about 10 approaches from ex-customers who misplaced their EIC/MIC and Compliance certificates. I sent them copies, and info on how to get copies of compliance. I decided not to charge for this service, for various reasons, one of which was I had previously obtained monies for it.

So I definitely advise you to charge for this part of the work. £400 is a bit steep though

 

[buzzlightyear]

I decided not to charge for this service, for various reasons, one of which was I had previously obtained monies for it.

I tell all customers not miss place them and keep them safe ,if you lose them then I will charge them for a copy for them , is your responsibility.

 

[Midwest]

I tell all customers not miss place them and keep them safe ,if you lose them then I will charge them for a copy for them , is your responsibility.

Certsure used to give them the same friendly advice, in the email contains the certificate. If I had continued, I would of also charged an admin fee, for replacements.

 

[electric al]

I'm all for building some cost in but it seems unfair to hammer any individual with such a small job . Everybody does things their own way but to me it's wrong

 

[pirate]

In my view, if customers have lost certificates, then it is perfectly reasonable to charge for providing a replacement. In my previous life, we often had requests for copies of paperwork that had been provided to clients who subsequently lost them. usually it was their accountant who wanted them. It took time, sometimes a lot of time, searching records, and it seemed to me that we were being treated as some kind of "online storage system"...and, often, if I said ok, but there will be a charge, suddenly they no longer needed the stuff after all...they were just getting me to do the digging, rather than looking themselves.

 

[bigspark17]

I tell all customers not miss place them and keep them safe ,if you lose them then I will charge them for a copy for them , is your responsibility.

do you hand write your certs?

i wouldnt employ you with attitude like that.

 

[ipf]

do you hand write your certs?

i wouldnt employ you with attitude like that.

Came from local authority through the post when I did them....easily lost. What's the problem?

 

[bigspark17]

All done online with pdf free copies, dont know how you can charge some1 to just click resend only takes 1min, maybe in not ruthless enough