pricing

[matt.leung]

does anyone have fixed prices when it come to work, no matter how long it takes you.....?

for example. fault finding a lighting circuit is priced at

 

[Andy™]

i charge by the hour for fault finding. and i would imagine almost everyone else does too

 

[kme]

The only difference is when I`m going into an unknown property, that I think may have problems.

I estimate the "worst case", price for this and annote the estimate accordingly - if I allow for 10 days, and I find the faults easily and am out in 7 days, the invoice comes down accordingly.

However - if it takes longer than I estimated - that is my problem, and I don`t pass any further cost to the customer.

KME

 

[Riggy]

The only difference is when I`m going into an unknown property, that I think may have problems. I estimate the "worst case", price for this and annote the estimate accordingly - if I allow for 10 days, and I find the faults easily and am out in 7 days, the invoice comes down accordingly.

However - if it takes longer than I estimated - that is my problem, and I don`t pass any further cost to the customer.

KME

What sort of places are you going to where it can take 7-10 days to find a fault, I'm struggling to imagine anything that complicated?

 

[green-hornet]

What sort of places are you going to where it can take 7-10 days to find a fault, I'm struggling to imagine anything that complicated?

The last PIR he did would have been one I can think of.

 

[Riggy]

The last PIR he did would have been one I can think of.

I can easily envisage 10 day PIR's (and then some!) but 7-10 days fault finding is a different matter.

 

[kme]

Depends on the complexity of the cct in question; especially if you don`t have access to any form of cct ident.

However, what I actually meant was this: I recently had a callout to a property which hasn`t been touvhed in 40+ years. The 3 Wylex boards are above (and almost behind) a row of kitchen cupboards, total of 15 ways, and none of them marked.

The 100mA front-end Voleb is tripping - no works have been done recently.........

I can "easily" find the U/S cct, and isolate, to allow them power to the other ccts, and convince them to have a new, compliant CU installed in a better spot. BUT...I don`t know what is wrong with the cct I isolated, where it feeds, or how much time will be involved to sort it out. Plus I`ve got at least 1 cct without OCPD (shower install-RCD in enclosure, but no MCB!). So I haven`t a clue how much work is going to be involved in putting all the circuits up to standard. So I price for the "worst case" scenario I think I will encounter, which came out at 10 days.

Now do you follow, mate?

 

[binky]

does anyone have fixed prices when it come to work, no matter how long it takes you.....?for example. fault finding a lighting circuit is priced at

 

[Lillpete]

I charge for the first hour and then per 15mins after that.