Fuse box installed for £150 what!!!

[spark 68]

Bear in mind though im still not allowed to sign off testing but when i do i can't imagine charging over £100.

It is this that will (or should) take a lot more time to do, if you are doing it properly, than the board change itself.

What about when you come across faults (borrowed Neutrals etal.) ?, and you cannot complete the sheets until they are rectified ?

So if you are charging £60 just to fit the board (£30 an hour ?), how do you work it out at £40 for this bit?

Also bear in mind if you are paying your own scheme fees @ circa £300-£400 a year, and your PL insurance, your cal certs etc...etc.. ad nauseum

 

[Octopus]

Jesus i charge £60 to replace a board plus the cost of the board (as long as bonding and tails don't need replaced and the board is correctly labeled). Bear in mind though im still not allowed to sign off testing but when i do i can't imagine charging over £100. This takes no more than an hour for me to do, personally i find customers grumbling at that cost too.

Do you specialise in small flats?? I simply can't imagine that its feasible, or professional, to do a board change and all the mandatory dead and live tests in 2 hours.

 

[tony mc]

Jesus i charge £60 to replace a board plus the cost of the board (as long as bonding and tails don't need replaced and the board is correctly labeled). Bear in mind though im still not allowed to sign off testing but when i do i can't imagine charging over £100. This takes no more than an hour for me to do, personally i find customers grumbling at that cost too.

Hi Hardwired.

If you are charging this for a CU change you are seriously under charging IMO.

I note you say your not allowed to sign off testing so how is the job finalised or does someone else come and test it for no charge?

 

[Hardwired]

it takes me roughly 45 minutes to swap over and i carry out the work after a quick visual inspection and test which is about 15 mins and travel comes out my pocket. in a given day i have done five or six usually this occursround about the time of b and q putting a board out at a ridiculously cheap price although the average day is 3 depending on the work i can pick up from a few guys i know.

 

[Octopus]

it takes me roughly 45 minutes to swap over and i carry out the work after a quick visual inspection and test which is about 15 mins and travel comes out my pocket.

So would you like to list the tests you conduct in the said 15 mins

 

[RISElectrical]

I was thinking the same, i assume your not notifying to LABC so no costs there but even at £60 a pop and doing 3 a day its only £180 and out of that you have to get fuel, insurance (Car/Van, PL etc), wear and tear of van, all the other usual suspects.... Still cheap if you ask me. Plus I would struggle to get 3 in a day. For a start a CU change would take me about 4 hours all in, plus you dont know what else needs doing until you test and that can add time on the job and disrupt the other 2 jobs on later that day. TBH i tend to only book 1 CU change a day generally.

 

[AP Electrical]

wish I could get two a day.........

 

[Mark_Burgess]

it takes me roughly 45 minutes to swap over and i carry out the work after a quick visual inspection and test which is about 15 mins and travel comes out my pocket. in a given day i have done five or six usually this occursround about the time of b and q putting a board out at a ridiculously cheap price although the average day is 3 depending on the work i can pick up from a few guys i know.

What are you changing, shower or garage consumer units?

 

[needasparks]

So would you like to list the tests you conduct in the said 15 mins

Someones gonna see Matt Allwright one day, then some questions will be asked.
doubt it looks any better than a plate of spaggetti

 

[Kiers1970]

He has 'nay bother' as he lives with his mum, and it's cheaper to live in Scottishland.

 

[realspark]

nice and neat mate.... so what happened to the update 17th board? unless all dos unprotected circuits are surfaced and are in trunking/conduit, marked, where they go and who is on the quipment at the other end......

mate that board alone with breakers is more than a ton,,,,,, so really £150, bit like porkies.....

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nice and neat mate.... so what happened to the update 17th board? unless all dos unprotected circuits are surfaced and are in trunking/conduit, marked, where they go and who is on the quipment at the other end......

mate that board alone with breakers is more than a ton,,,,,, so really £150, bit like porkies.....

 

[Resu]

Maybe check the date on previous post next time mate.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Always amuses me, brags about "how quick" & "how much".


Why bother?
I
'd prefer to do the ones where i can take my time and do a really great job, at normal speeds with tea breaks.

 

[Hardwired]

What are you changing, shower or garage consumer units?

No just your usual domestic house with say ten or 12 circuits on it.

Like i said im not allowed to sign off test certs so usually an approved spark comes at my back to test the boadr any problems and i return to rectify them.

Visual inspection doesn't take too long a quick look around the existing board and a sample of sockets, switches and light fittings to check the general condition of the wiring and bonding of course any visible faults are fixed at an additional cost depending on the time they take although generally houses i have worked in have all been in good condition with nothing like borrowed neutrals etc.

And no needaspaks my work is not like spaghetti, guess im unlike yourself in that i do not hang a job out and prefer to get straight down to business.

Would also like to point out that my cheapness is what has gained me repeat custom from the 4 guys (all landlords with multiple properties) i get most of my private jobs from and what gains me more jobs through word of mouth.

Im talking about private jobs as i do not run my own sparky company nor am i self employed

 

[Hardwired]

He has 'nay bother' as he lives with his mum, and it's cheaper to live in Scottishland.

Wouldn't say it was any cheaper than thenorth of england m8, bear in mind im only charging for labour im not running my own business

 

[mayfair]

So were talking about someone doing foreigners your not self employed and not running a business so what do you do about insurance for the work you are carrying out.

No just your usual domestic house with say ten or 12 circuits on it.

Like i said im not allowed to sign off test certs so usually an approved spark comes at my back to test the boadr any problems and i return to rectify them.

Visual inspection doesn't take too long a quick look around the existing board and a sample of sockets, switches and light fittings to check the general condition of the wiring and bonding of course any visible faults are fixed at an additional cost depending on the time they take although generally houses i have worked in have all been in good condition with nothing like borrowed neutrals etc.

And no needaspaks my work is not like spaghetti, guess im unlike yourself in that i do not hang a job out and prefer to get straight down to business.

Would also like to point out that my cheapness is what has gained me repeat custom from the 4 guys (all landlords with multiple properties) i get most of my private jobs from and what gains me more jobs through word of mouth.

Im talking about private jobs as i do not run my own sparky company nor am i self employed

 

[Octopus]

Im talking about private jobs as i do not run my own sparky company nor am i self employed

So you're talking cash in hand, non declared income then?

 

[mayfair]

Think this could turn nasty. Some ******* doing jobs on the side for landlords who are probably also not declaring income and he gets his so called reputation for cheapness ....maybe we should have a whip round for a cheap hitman. We could always get a real one to go round later and check to see if he did it right.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

No no i'm enjoying it (the thread)

 

[ipf]

No no i'm enjoying it (the thread)

Me too. All in good condition? Like the visual inspection bit too, really thorough.