Advice please, moving to the UK.

[Guest77]

it is like dear deidre here now lol

 

[R G]

What's a Electrical Trainee??

Boy ..you gotta be soooo pleased that you can say that....

 

[GMES]

What's a Electrical Trainee??

Worse than a psycho

 

[GMES]

Boy ..you gotta be soooo pleased that you can say that....

They say ignorance is bliss Ray

 

[Donkeydaz]

Hahaha

 

[shanky887614]

a wood butcher can take a 5 week course and it lets him legally butcher people's electrics as well

 

[Donkeydaz]

Maybe I could do a quick course and be an accountant and do all ur accounts and charge u all thousands

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Hey guys.

I am am a self employed electrician from the island of Guernsey, small island in between England and France. I have been going for my self since October last year and charge £24 an hour. The normal going rate over here for an electrician is anything between £25-£40 an hour and working for someone the average wage an hour is about £16 an hour.

In the next month or so I am looking at moving over to the uk to an area south east of England, West Sussex.
I am just curious what is the average going rate for a self employed sparky and what is the average rate working for someone. I haven't looked into anything yet, it's been a kind of last minute decision to move.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated, I will be looking at working for someone when I get there and look into going self employed again.

I am recently qualified 2 years ago and hold all recent qualifications.

Many thanks.

i cant understand why anyone would want to move to this pig sty of a country...

where lies, cheating & deceitful behaviour are seen as the way to make progress....

 

[ipf]

Maybe I could do a quick course and be an accountant and do all ur accounts and charge u all thousands

There's a point. How would the tax situation affect you ?

 

[R G]

i cant understand why anyone would want to move to this pig sty of a country...

where lies, cheating & deceitful behaviour are seen as the way to make progress....

Yep thats customers all right...

 

[Octopus]

i cant understand why anyone would want to move to this pig sty of a country...

where lies, cheating & deceitful behaviour are seen as the way to make progress....

So you've met the builder I'm working with this week!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Yep thats customers all right...

its summat else as well...


but i put up enough threads in that direction the other day....

 

[1stfix2ndfix]

If it was me I would offer free electrical tests and then tell them about my (fingers crossed) bad findings. Id also maybe mention about current electrical regulations (17th edition boards, bonding conductor size etc) and possibly drop in that instead of it taking 5 seconds for you to stop being electrocuted if there was a fault and something had became live it would only take 0.2. I would probably show them what a new board looked like and then leave it with them


note: I was told 5 seconds. I haven't looked it yet up so this could be bad advise and require consideration and a bit of stick for me, but if not pretty a pretty effective point and I would of never forgot something.


Incase anyone thinks I mean leave the actual board with them I mean the thought

 

[Octopus]

If it was me I would offer free electrical tests and then tell them about my (fingers crossed) bad findings. Id also maybe mention about current electrical regulations (17th edition boards, bonding conductor size etc) and possibly drop in that instead of it taking 5 seconds for you to stop being electrocuted if there was a fault and something had became live it would only take 0.2. I would probably show them what a new board looked like and then leave it with them


note: I was told 5 seconds. I haven't looked it yet up so this could be bad advise and require consideration and a bit of stick for me, but if not pretty a pretty effective point and I would of never forgot something.


Incase anyone thinks I mean leave the actual board with them I mean the thought

And the majority of "customers" would take advantage of you.

Testing should be done thoroughly, and properly, with the right charges applied......

 

[R G]

If you don't test fully and properly and supply a written report you would be out of business fairly quickly
if you report is accepted along with the quotation based on it and then there's issues found when doing the work what are you then going to do ???

 

[dingledong]

And when you give them the report they will get 20 quotes from other people to do remedials

 

[R G]

And when you give them the report they will get 20 quotes from other people to do remedials

Exactly and when these other guys find other faults who would the customer be coming back to ? And who would they want compensation from ?

 

[Maddison]

OP, have you heard of a small island down south, where your qualifications will be taken into account and your experience appreciated. i'll give you a clue. they drink fosters and tie down kangaroos.

Tel you'll be surprised to know you will never find fosters here... No one drinks it and no one sells it ha

 

[telectrix]

i'm not surprised.it's pi$$.

 

[1stfix2ndfix]

It was actually 0.4 not 0.2