No really guys, it is just a switch. You really do not need expensive equipment to do that safely. The guy that did it for me said I need no paperwork at all. Such a nice guy, and I loved his horse, so much nicer than a van. He even tipped his hat when he rode off, such a gentleman.
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I notice that lindsayg is from Glasgow.
Perhaps you live in one of those delightful blocks of rabbit hedges by the motorway / ringroad I drive past on the way to Lock Lomond golf club?
Therefore the quotes also factor into account the 50/50 chance of never seeing your van/tools left outside your humble abode whilst doing the 5 minute job
Perhaps you live in one of those delightful blocks of rabbit hedges by the motorway / ringroad I drive past on the way to Lock Lomond golf club?
Therefore the quotes also factor into account the 50/50 chance of never seeing your van/tools left outside your humble abode whilst doing the 5 minute job
If you lot are trying to justify a call out fee of - lets say £100 and an hourly rate of, let's say, another £100 then you're barking up the wrong tree.
You are perhaps all based in Dubai. I live in Glasgow.
My plumber - who is excellent - charges call out and first hour at £40.
My plasterer - who is excellent - charges roughly £250-300 per day for himself and a lad... and materials.
To have a three piece bathroom suite fitted and the old one removed I would pay around £300 to 350.
My joiner can do a job over the weekend including building from scratch a cupboard to house the meters with shelves below, plus two tiny boxing in jobs for £250 including materials.
As a self-employed television professional I charge £180 per day rising to £1000 per week, depending on the job. (And yes, I do know about invoices, and diesel, and accountancy fees, and stationery costs, and mobile phone bills, and people that pay late - but thanks anyway...)
And since discovering I couldn't get a Spark at a fair rate I have changed all the switches and sockets in the entire house (apart from that one) and changed the lights and added under-unit lighting in my kitchen - myself.
So yes, £150 to fit a £19 shower isolator (which I had already bought), taking 20 minutes and one screwdriver, is a ****ing rip off.
And that's why the guys that estimated it at that didn't get the work.
I asked the question in the hope that you could help me find someone that wasn't a daylight robber.
Not to hear that tired old 'here love, if I suck my teeth and tell you about how you wouldn't believe the cost of running a van these days will you pay me three times the going rate for this job?' crap being defended.
You are perhaps all based in Dubai. I live in Glasgow.
My plumber - who is excellent - charges call out and first hour at £40.
My plasterer - who is excellent - charges roughly £250-300 per day for himself and a lad... and materials.
To have a three piece bathroom suite fitted and the old one removed I would pay around £300 to 350.
My joiner can do a job over the weekend including building from scratch a cupboard to house the meters with shelves below, plus two tiny boxing in jobs for £250 including materials.
As a self-employed television professional I charge £180 per day rising to £1000 per week, depending on the job. (And yes, I do know about invoices, and diesel, and accountancy fees, and stationery costs, and mobile phone bills, and people that pay late - but thanks anyway...)
And since discovering I couldn't get a Spark at a fair rate I have changed all the switches and sockets in the entire house (apart from that one) and changed the lights and added under-unit lighting in my kitchen - myself.
So yes, £150 to fit a £19 shower isolator (which I had already bought), taking 20 minutes and one screwdriver, is a ****ing rip off.
And that's why the guys that estimated it at that didn't get the work.
I asked the question in the hope that you could help me find someone that wasn't a daylight robber.
Not to hear that tired old 'here love, if I suck my teeth and tell you about how you wouldn't believe the cost of running a van these days will you pay me three times the going rate for this job?' crap being defended.
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Tradesmen who charge high prices get less work and therefor have un-assigned time to cover. So they have to set price per hour to cover the non earning hours time.
Tradesmen with lower prices soon get more work and eventually have no un-assigned hours and often over time to get all work completed.
Difficult task to get the right price. But I would agree £100 an hour is a bit over the top.
Tradesmen who charge high prices get less work and therefor have un-assigned time to cover. So they have to set price per hour to cover the non earning hours time.
Tradesmen with lower prices soon get more work and eventually have no un-assigned hours and often over time to get all work completed.
Difficult task to get the right price. But I would agree £100 an hour is a bit over the top.
Don't reckon he did a proper IR test, removing all lamps etc....alright might be slightly on the high side.....but JUST A SWITCH !!!!!!! If someone gets electrocuted who's the one in the s**t, thats what regs are for.
Just a screwdriver? You're living on another planet, sorry.
Don't reckon who did an IR test? Removing what lamps? And yes, it's just a switch. Like I keep saying - I did the next one myself. It took me twenty minutes too.
I don't think you've read the thread. But thanks for your input anyway.
Sigh. Can you explain this comment?
I asked a perfectly polite and sensible question and I have explained carefully about the background, including what other trades in this area charge.
If all any of you can come out with is snitty little comments then frankly, why don't you just step away from the keyboard and go for a walk?
These quotes were a blatant rip off and I'm asking for suggestions as to getting a better one next time as I have a big job coming up that needs a specialist who can certify the work at the end.
And yes, fitting a shower switch is a 20 minute job using just a screwdriver. If you think differently then you have either misunderstood what I'm saying - which may be my fault as much as yours - or you are pretending to know about stuff for some reason of your own.
Here. This is Just a Switch, installed by me using Just a Screwdriver, and fully functional for the last two months.
And here is Just a Switch installed by a qualified spark using Just A Screwdriver and fully functional for the last year. AND QUOTED AT £150 FOR INSTALLATION.
Yes I can.
Main equipotential bonding in place to both gas and water?
Supplementary bonding in place in the bathroom?
Minor works certificate completed with all relevant testing?
Out of interest, what was the Zs reading taken at the shower?
BTW, this isn't conducted by a screwdriver, not even a superduper neon screwdriver
I think we know they're not sockets.....
Yes I can.
Main equipotential bonding in place to both gas and water?
Supplementary bonding in place in the bathroom?
Minor works certificate completed with all relevant testing?
Out of interest, what was the Zs reading taken at the shower?
BTW, this isn't conducted by a screwdriver, not even a superduper neon screwdriver
yes it is.
you're quite, quite wrong. your'e also a very rude and unpleasant and almost certainly friendless cretin
do you think I'm talking about fitting a shower? have you bothered to read the thread, or look at the pics??
or are you too busy looking in the mirror and laughing at your own clever little comments?
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