how much would u charge for a re-wire....

[matt.leung]

re-wire - how much

 

[kme]

Nowhere near enough info there, mate.

Materials plus labour ( how long you think it`ll take times your preferred hourly rate). Don`t forget to allow for testing & certifying - either build it into the labour time, or apply a seperate charge for it.

KME

 

[green-hornet]

Ground floor maisonette will probably be concrete ceilings, really hard to do any good cable runs, like KME has said there is not a lot of info in your post and would be impossible to speculate a price.

You need to get a full material list together dont forget to include all the bits people leave off like screws, grommets,sleeving, wall plugs etc etc. Then work out how long each stage will take you, get your hourly rate and add up all the totals, on small jobs I add at least 1 day labour, larger jobs I could add anything from a week to two weeks.

 

[matt.leung]

i just read this add on the net, and thought i would just throw it in, to see what u guy's think....

 

[Badger]

my guess would be around the 1700 - 1900 mark depending on area.

 

[bengie]

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[matt.leung]

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[Badger]

no when you think about all the work involved 1700 is what id charge approx especially regarding the amount of trunking needed and corners etc, pay cheap and people get a cheap rough job!!

 

[jl-heating]

in sheffield you can get a 3 bed house rewired for 1500 all day long.

measure it up and price the materials add 10/15?%

how long will it take ?

are u doing the patching or is that an extra make sure the customer knows.

materials + labour = price.

 

[Cirrus]

I would say around

 

[green-hornet]

in sheffield you can get a 3 bed house rewired for 1500 all day long. measure it up and price the materials add 10/15?%

how long will it take ?

are u doing the patching or is that an extra make sure the customer knows.

materials + labour = price.

This is one reason why I do not like domestics. A couple of years ago new build installations ran at approx 2,500, thats no banging about or moving furniture etc.

I would happily charge 3,500 for a terrace, and probably 6,000 for a larger house, but now we have the "newly appointed" who think 1,200 is ok.

End of the day you get what you pay for, as is testiment to the shoddy crap I have seen.

If you have no work on at the moment advertise as a handyman, they appear to get all the house rewires these days and are not even electricians.

 

[kme]

Luckily (for me, anyway) we seem to have either a lot of good luck with work, or a good reputation - I`m nowhere near the cheapest, but my customers don`t seem to care - they pay what I ask. I`m with GH here; you go in cheap, and your profit will buy your horse a new saddle once a year!

Don`t sell yourselves short guys - what is the AVERAGE cost of a CH install from scratch? Are you any less qualified? Do you do less work than mr plumbit (no offence JL). Why should you almost pay the customer to do their work?

 

[Voltimax]

You know what? I'm going to risk getting flamed here by a lot of you, but to be honest I don't really care.

This subject about going in cheap really gets my goat and I'm now about to tell you one of the biggest reasons this goes on. There are those that have only just started up in the trade, they have probably received minimum training and have minimum experience i.e. next to none. These people then get them selves registered with a scheme and away they go, they have no idea how to price and they go round undercutting other more experienced electrical contractors. Now these guys may not be termed as cowboy's, because they may very well want to do a decent job, however they haven't a clue in business. These people damage the trade because the public think that their prices are legit and that's what they expect to pay.

There's alot of this going on now, especially in my area. We have butchers, car salesmen, office workers, you name it, they're all trying their hand. Some of them don't last long, because they soon realize they can't keep their business afloat by giving such cheap quotes. Some get it wrong because they just don't know how to price. Some get it wrong, because they don't consider all the variables and miss things, but they want to do the job right and so have to do things at their own expense.

This is the reason that in some areas (such as mine), sparking isn't a very good living, at least not in the domestic sector.

There I've had my say. Flame away headbang

 

[kme]

Not from me, mate; and I wouldn`t expect "flaming" from other members. Its the truth, pure & simple.

I applaud you for putting it so well

 

[NozSpark]

Well said Voltimax..

same happening here

 

[green-hornet]

I could not flame anyone who speaks the truth.

To back up your post I admit when I first started out on my own I would price up the materials for the job, forget there was VAT on top, miss out things like screws, grommets, and all the other things like labels, fuel oh and wages!

Soon turns out to be very expensive to yourself. Now any quote I do has at least some grommets in there !!

 

[bengie]

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[Voltimax]

basically mate without any detail or looking its impossible to say with any kind of certainty so anyone that can give a quote without seeing a job is better than me!

Very true.

Basically coming on to a forum and asking how much to charge for a job is not a good idea, and the reasons are several.

1, People here are from many different areas that have different costs of living. Prices will vary greatly

2, No one here has seen the job you're describing

3, No one has been able to weigh up the customer (probably the most important)

4, We all deal with different wholesalers and get different discounts etc

At the end of the day, you know (or should) what you need/can charge per day/week in your area. You have seen the job and should be able to guesstimate (because that's all we do) how long you think it will take. Next bit is the easy bit, make a list of materials needed and get them priced, add on some profit and add it all together.

Just so you don't think I'm having a pop at you, here's some more advice and possibly the best bit of advice you'll ever receive. If you get this job, or for that matter any job. Keep a running job sheet going. At the end you'll see exactly what the cost of materials were and how many labour hours were spent on the job. This will become a template for any future jobs of that ilk that may come your way. It will become a very valuable document

EDIT: Matt, my apologies. I just read your second post. I'll leave this up though as I think it's useful for all those guys that want others to price their work for them