I dont know how my experience of London costs can be so different from yours. I answer the phone to give budgetary quotes and virtually all the prices I give for installation work is way too high.
A prime example last week, fit a rad which a lady has already bought herself. Its a few inches shorter than the old one so pipework mods are needed. I told her it would be at least £160 as it would involve draining the system. That was way too much!
Over the last three months I have not seen ONE builder who was employing English people, they say the Poles are polite, hard working and have good skills and are happy on £60-£100 per day depending on their skills.
In fact, rather oddly, the only English workers I have seen were being employed by an Iranian!
A nice friendly plumber I met was being made redundant after six years because the work had "dried up" ! He blamed the Polish!
Tony
A prime example last week, fit a rad which a lady has already bought herself. Its a few inches shorter than the old one so pipework mods are needed. I told her it would be at least £160 as it would involve draining the system. That was way too much!
Over the last three months I have not seen ONE builder who was employing English people, they say the Poles are polite, hard working and have good skills and are happy on £60-£100 per day depending on their skills.
In fact, rather oddly, the only English workers I have seen were being employed by an Iranian!
A nice friendly plumber I met was being made redundant after six years because the work had "dried up" ! He blamed the Polish!
Tony