What would you have charged.......

[jibspark]

2 hours fault finding and rectification 6pm to 8pm Friday eve 10 mins from where you live, 1st floor flat.

what would you charge for this?

 

[Zeespark]

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[jibspark]

 

[Zeespark]

In your case yes mate, My time is valuable to Me, so I dont give it cheaply away.

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[jibspark]

so i should have charged more than

 

[Apache]

so i should have charged more than

 

[jibspark]

the thing is, they called in the morning but thats the soonest i could get to them. im not sure how that makes a difference but im just trying to make myself feel better! lol

 

[Apache]

the thing is, they called in the morning but thats the soonest i could get to them. im not sure how that makes a difference but im just trying to make myself feel better! lol

That is a little different. Personally I would do it at the day rate if they were pleasant, desperate and likely to offer you more work!

If they were demanding you saw them that day then normal call out + 25%? Dunno.

 

[Dane]

still classed as a call out really. even if they called in the morning. i think

 

[green-hornet]

I suppose it depends on your "worth".

I always make a quick assesment of potential repeat work, and would charge accordingly.

You have to remember that if you charge too much, you will always be known as expensive, this has happened to me in the past and I have lost work by reccomendation because of it.

I normally charge

 

[jibspark]

so even if its mid day you charge

 

[green-hornet]

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[NozSpark]

I have just been to a call out (8pm), took me 20mins to find a loose connection in a ceiling rose, Charged them

 

[Apache]

I know certain washing machine manufactures offer their own engineers to do service calls...

 

[M107]

took me 20mins to find a loose connection in a ceiling rose, Charged them

 

[jibspark]

lol

so to sum up, i should without doubt be charging more for callouts!

 

[Dane]

you charge what your time is worth, like people have said, overcharging could cost you future business.

Charging what your comfortable with is what you should do, if your anything like me ive nothing much to on evenings so id just charge a reasonable rate plus a percentage for call out plus parts.

If i remember, last call out i did was an old couple.

Kettle with tad water in base, plus a RCD. lol electrician that did the installation didn't offer a call out service. I tried to explain on the phone but they couldn't understand at all. so i ended up there at 9.30pm on a Saturday night 5 minutes later done. i told them it would just be

 

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[jibspark]

while i have your attention,

what do you think you be a good price for a PIR as below:

commercial property

12 way tp&n board, fully loaded (36 circuits), on 2 floors, the board is marked up but seems wrong in places so circuits would need locating/tracing, no past reports.

its too big for me but i was just curious to see what would be the correct amount to charge.