Found this little beauty of and advert today, race to the bottom

[123]

Ok, so it's from 2015, but seriously?

Amazingly, the company still seems to be operating.

@Risteard @Phil Thompson @Matthewd29 is this the kind of garbage prices we need to compete with? Company this advert is from is based in Lisburn.

 

[buzzlightyear]

which company is this ,billy smarts electrical ,

 

[Rpa07]

I never realised that 3036 boards were illegal - thank goodness you showed this advert, I must tell everyone I see!
I’m sure that they will appreciate my honesty.

 

[123]

I never realised that 3036 boards were illegal - thank goodness you showed this advert, I must tell everyone I see!
I’m sure that they will appreciate my honesty.

It could be 1361 fuses in that MEM board. £160 for a board change though

 

[Andy78]

There was a company round here advertising in the paper about 4 years back.
Rewires £1k, cu swaps £100.

As for competing, there isn't any comparison. They would have to be offering the same service as us for competition to be a relevant concept.

 

[Rpa07]

It could be 1361 fuses in that MEM board. £160 for a board change though

Did look odd with more coloured spot than Wylex - yeh £160 - I wonder how many horror stories have been written!

 

[Flanders]

Maybe their new advert has a picture of the plastic cu with illegal stamped on it now.

 

[Dave OCD]

I'd like to see inside one that they'd done - and the cert !

 

[Flanders]

I'd like to see inside one that they'd done - and the cert !

I bet it won't be as good as that one you did the other day

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

There is a guy over Bristol predominantly within the migrant communites around Barton Hill, St pauls easton areas offering silly prices, As the guy is somali descent he speaks there language and is readily accepted where as being white I would be seen as an outsider. He offers a board change for £200.00 all in, that includes split load rcd and even the certificates! I only worked this out when I did an EICR for a person buying a flat in St Pauls. the paperwork was available next to the board and had test schedule, building control notice and the invoice all attached in the little plastic wallet... it actually tested out okay aswell. only downside was not dressed well inside.
If you buy enough consumer units at once you get a good price but i assume he is not paying tax, NI etc. must have had insurance or a dodgy certificate for the scheme assessment? I looked him up at the time and was on facebook if i recall he offered a 3 bed rewire for 2.2k and had quite a lot of people interested on the page...
Cheapest I have done a board change for is £250 and that involved 4 circuits in a small 1 bed flat. Took half a day.

 

[buzzlightyear]

I use to work for a firm once and they used to give silly prices
and did not last long ,I remember working for them and working
at a customer house ,when the customer told me can you make the sockets straight has it cost me a lot of Moines ,yeah wright .having handed me notice that week .I told their customer I will not be hear next week ,he said who is going to do it .answers was the seven dwarfs .who gives a f88k.

 

[Phil Thompson]

Let then at it, I say, anyone can be a busy idiot lol

 

[Risteard]

Ok, so it's from 2015, but seriously?

Amazingly, the company still seems to be operating.

@Risteard @Phil Thompson @Matthewd29 is this the kind of garbage prices we need to compete with? Company this advert is from is based in Lisburn.

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No wonder some people think I'm too dear!

 

[Midwest]

Some people just don't see things like CU etc as important. I was at a property the other day (4 bed), disconnecting lighting etc in bathroom they were having refurbished.

Customer went into a bit of a panic, when I said needed to isolate the circuit. She said they had loads of problems 'with the fuseboard tripping'. It was old'ish CU with most circuits on one RCD. I said why don't you get a quote from the sparks doing the bathroom, for a new CU etc etc. She asked what I'd charge, between £400-500.

'How much! I thought about £200'. Spending a small fortune on the bathroom though

 

[buzzlightyear]

food for thought if all sparks stop under cutting every body then every body will be happy. its like now a trade war .

 

[Octopus]

Let then at it, I say, anyone can be a busy POOR idiot lol

corrected that for you

That said someone playing the tax credits "game" could easily supplement their low income with tax free cash if they have kids ....

 

[telectrix]

i blame Brexit. .

 

[MJPD29]

Gave me a good laugh, there's no way I could change a board for 160 most rcbo boards cost more than that alone. I'd love to see the quality of work, don't know where they pulled the phrase illegal from either!

 

[MJPD29]

Gave me a good laugh, there's no way I could change a board for 160 most rcbo boards cost more than that alone. I'd love to see the quality of work, don't know where they pulled the phrase illegal from either!

 

[JK-Electrical]

I was once asked by a customer as to why my quote of £350 for a CU upgrade was almost double that of two others he had received over the phone from young men he had found via My Builder. I told him that he should apply a reverse mindset and ask them why their quotes were almost half the price of mine. I pointed-out to the customer that you get what you pay for and if he was offered a second-hand car worth £5000 for just £2500, then the first question he would ask the seller would be the obvious one: "What is wrong with it?"

I explained to the customer that in accordance with regulation 132.16, an installation needs to be inspected and tested prior to a board changeover, and that having just carried-out an inspection, I have determined that main protective bonding would need to be installed for the gas and water services as there wasn't any present.

He didn't have a clue what I was talking about and asked me why the other two 'electricians' hadn't mentioned any of this. "Probably because neither of them could be bothered to actually come to your house to check if the earthing and bonding arrangements were adequate as I have done", was my reply.

One of the 'electricians' told the customer that he would be able to do the job within "1-2 hours max so why are you telling me that the job is going to take nearly all day?" This is the point where I realised that I was p***ing in the wind and decided to walk away. There's just no talking to some people, so why even bother?