Pricing for a job need help

[JLHELEC]

Been asked to price for a job, customer is having attic done out so needs a few new circuits up there. Some more context I'm based in South Wales and house is 1950s awkward little.run from the board to up but the new socket's will all be on studs so minimal chasing. I'm so bad at pricing work it literally puts me off taking jobs on. CU is full so I proposed having a new CU dedicated for the loft and going from there.

New CU
X4 socket's one being usb
X2 1 gang 2 way switches
X6 spotlights
X1 optical smoke alarm, to be interlinked with existing smokes, so I gotta dick around with them also.

I was gunna just price materials plus 2 days labour @ day rate but I always feel like iv shafted myself when doing work for day rate as the jobs usually turn out to be -------'s just wondering if any of you lot were in my neck of the woods and interested to see what you'd charge or anyone would charge for that in general

 

[buzzlightyear]

Tell us what you going to charge and we
Tell you if you are near the mark.

 

[Dustydazzler]

If you are not confident, then I always go 'hourly' on small jobs like this

2 days would be tight Imo , it doesn't allow fir any feck ups or delays where you need to return for a 3rd day

I find most customers these days are happy to go with me on an hourly rate

 

[JLHELEC]

I was thinking materials plus 2 days at £250 a day. I don't really know what sparks charge around by me guessing it'd be around 40ph ish, company I work for really really tight lipped on pricing so I'm like a mushroom when it comes to price

Tell us what you going to charge and we
Tell you if you are near the mark.

 

[JLHELEC]

If you are not confident, then I always go 'hourly' on small jobs like this

2 days would be tight Imo , it doesn't allow fir any feck ups or delays where you need to return for a 3rd day

I find most customers these days are happy to go with me on an hourly rate

You can I bet if I say 2 days it'll turn out to be 3 days . Thank you for the advice

 

[Dustydazzler]

You can I bet if I say 2 days it'll turn out to be 3 days . Thank you for the advice

99% of jobs that I have ever undertaken take longer in reality than they did in my head

 

[Dustydazzler]

I was thinking materials plus 2 days at £250 a day. I don't really know what sparks charge around by me guessing it'd be around 40ph ish, company I work for really really tight lipped on pricing so I'm like a mushroom when it comes to price

Way too cheap for a self employed sparks

I would price £50 per hour minimum even in the cheaper areas of the country , you are running a business not a charity

 

[timhoward]

I’d give customer choice of 3 days or hourly rate.
Feed to new board could eat up time if things don’t go well.
Then knowing my luck discovering the landing smoke alarm has a water tank over it so have to find and splice the 3 core.
2nd fixing always takes longer than you think because it feels simple.

Your hourly rate sounds a bit low to me. That’s my ‘working for builder’ rate, add at least a fiver per hour if you are working direct for customer.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I’d give customer choice of 3 days or hourly rate.
Feed to new board could eat up time if things don’t go well.
Then knowing my luck discovering the landing smoke alarm has a water tank over it so have to find and splice the 3 core.
2nd fixing always takes longer than you think because it feels simple.

Your hourly rate sounds a bit low to me. That’s my ‘working for builder’ rate, add at least a fiver per hour if you are working direct for customer.

There are handman people in my area who charge £40-45 per hour just to put up a curtain pole or fix up a bit of coving and they have no qualifications to do this

We have 3-5 years of training and quals to do our job so should charge more than the local DIY handyman Imo

 

[LukeD]

Price 3 day and MIn £300 a day even for Wales !