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<blockquote data-quote="user 34474" data-source="post: 522434" data-attributes="member: 34474"><p>Frankly, I would expect to pay for his travel time, time on site and materials. He lives local, 10 mins from the job, he was an hour on site fitting the mcb and two surface mounted spurs (I'm sure most of you guys know this barely constitutes an hours work in practice). His old man had been to look at the work previously (normally part of the overhead inclusion) and so the electrician should've had the two spur boxes with him when he came. That's not an unreasonable assumption. Therefore an hour and a half (to include his travel time) at his charge out rate (which includes his overheads) plus his materials is a fair and reasonable assumption. I don't know what the average self-employed charge out rate is, but assume it's around £30-40 per hour, so I wouldn't have expected labour on this small amount of work to have passed £80. </p><p>Please remember, I asked for an honest opinion from you guys, I certainly am not criticizing your trade.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 34474, post: 522434, member: 34474"] Frankly, I would expect to pay for his travel time, time on site and materials. He lives local, 10 mins from the job, he was an hour on site fitting the mcb and two surface mounted spurs (I'm sure most of you guys know this barely constitutes an hours work in practice). His old man had been to look at the work previously (normally part of the overhead inclusion) and so the electrician should've had the two spur boxes with him when he came. That's not an unreasonable assumption. Therefore an hour and a half (to include his travel time) at his charge out rate (which includes his overheads) plus his materials is a fair and reasonable assumption. I don't know what the average self-employed charge out rate is, but assume it's around £30-40 per hour, so I wouldn't have expected labour on this small amount of work to have passed £80. Please remember, I asked for an honest opinion from you guys, I certainly am not criticizing your trade. [/QUOTE]
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