materials

  1. A

    cheapest place for materials i.e cable

    Hello my name's Adam i have recently just left college and i'm looking into getting materials together so i can still practice differnt types of circuits on a big wooden board like i did in college. I was wondering does any body know which is the cheapest place to buy materials from in the St...
  2. P

    Pros and cons of screwfix

    Recently,I had a customer that said to me" if you can get the materials cheaper than I can get myself at screw fix,go ahead!" for 6 bathroom spots and a shower install I said they would have to incur my premium charge of £17 PH if they supplied their own materials. After agreeing,but then after...
  3. C

    making money on materials??

    i work for a bloke at the moment, when ever he gets a quote for materials from the wholesalers he would add 15/20% on to the job quote price, is this normal practice?
  4. sythai

    CU changes.... testing first

    Evening all... Just quick question before pop out. Recently there was a post on CU upgrades, and someone? said when pricing they done it as 2 seperate jobs. First job: full test and rectify any faults. Second job: CU swap and quick test (as you will have most of results from job one) Good...
  5. S

    Fitting a Shower (Some Q's)

    Hello forum. I have just been given the task of fitting a shower for an elderly lady. Shower is supplied by customer (8.5kw) I need to run 10mm cable from board to unit (approx 20-25m) connect and test. She has an old wylex board...
  6. B

    materials

    hi was just wondering where most of you buy your materials from mainly cable and consumer units. i have been shopping around just lately and have found diy stores are selling products cheaper than my local wholesalers. so was wondering where the rest of you buy from. considering we need to be...
  7. A

    Pricing Help

    Ive been asked to price a job need some help on what others would charge and recommend. 16db sockets 4 ring mains 3 clean earth rings. water heater supply extratcor fan supply ac unit supply 3 lighting circuits 1 em lighting circuit db change im just tryna quote on the labour materials are...
  8. O

    pricing new build

    ive been given some drawings for some new build apartments, its the first time ive done this kind of pricing because its labour only, should i be looking at it per item or should i be looking at it for the time it should take
  9. M

    pricing help

    Ive recently done a kitchen rewire n few other bobs n thing ive under priced what you think 1.)remove 10 downligters in kitchen cabinets fed from 2 switches removed out of wall wiring sorted. 2.)removed and replaced 1 light fitting.(chandeiller swapped to a 4 bar spot) rewired a light...
  10. R

    Drivers and driver materials

    What is a good terminal driver to have, or what is a good meterial/steel process to have them made out of. I am in the habit of buying cheap terminal screwdrivers because I am always losing the little'uns and didnt think buying decent was worth it, but I just reallised I have gone through 5 in...
  11. R

    socket box cutter. any good

    has anyone used this type of box cutter before? at 25 quid it seems worth a punt to me Socket Back Box Hole Cutter/Chaser (e-z05) - e-zBuy
  12. L

    manuals

    lads doing a quote for a client and on it it mentions supplying manuals is this just descriptions of sockets , switches and lights and lamps etc .etc???
  13. R

    Pricing help

    Have recently gone self employed,and started to pick up a bit of work. firstly, whats an average price most sole traders would charge by the hour for small jobs? secondly, i am quoting for wiring a self contained cottage type thing. upstairs has 1 bed 1 bathroom. downstairs has kitchen, living...
  14. J

    Materials

    Anybody else had this! you know those double appliance boxes, the ones that take a single socket and say a spur, well our customer bought all there own chrome sockets, switches, spurs etc them selfs, of a list we gave them, they must have thought it would be cheaper than us buying em, but alas...
  15. S

    Tester calibration and pricing advice

    Hi what do you's pay to have your testers calibrated i have just had to pay £90.00 +VAT for a fluke 1653, is this expensive or about right? Also doing my own work now and would like to learn more about pricing work for domestic and commercial works, is there a course available or good...
  16. S

    Cost of materials

    There is a fair geographical spread of sparks on this site and i was wondering what is the difference in what we pay for materials across the country. Short shopping list in Dorset 100m of 2.5 T&E £37.42 100m of 1.0 T&E £20.32 double gang 35mm metal socket box £0.45 3m 25mm DI meter tail...
  17. R

    Costing work

    Hello all, I have done a few rewires and also some new installation work in extensions etc. what I was wondering is how you chaps price for work. I have heared various ways of pricing from comuch per socket, X £'s per circuit etc. Also if you give a price of say £3000 for a rewire and you...

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