1.5mm T&E cheaper by the metre

[opps]

I need 15m of 1.5mm T&E. There is a CEF around the corner from where I am working. I was considering purchasing a 25m roll from them at £22.20. That works out to 89p per metre but the custom cut cable works out at 78p per metre... seems to be the same brand of cable.

https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/2403834-h6242y-1-5mm-pvc-twin-and-earth-cable-grey-25m-drum

https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/4204729-h6242y-1-5mm-twin-and-earth-cable-grey-cut-length-sold-by-the-mtr

 

[ETAF]

Seems a strange way around
screwfix is cheaper and i have been recommend the PRYSMIAN make a few times by electricians and possibly on this forum , maybe another forum
Also cheaper at TLC

 

[opps]

Seems a strange way around
screwfix is cheaper and i have been recommend the PRYSMIAN make a few times by electricians and possibly on this forum , maybe another forum
Also cheaper at TLC

The reason I was looking at CEF is that they are around the corner from site- and they do the per metre. I also need 3 metres of 3 core and earth- which they sell.

 

[ETAF]

see what they say perhaps - maybe they would do a deal - if open, seems to be 17:30

 

[Murdochcat]

That's CEF pricing for you.

And why I only use them as supplier of last option

 

[plugwash]

seems to be the same brand of cable.

Neither of your links seem to list a brand, so I would presume you get whatever brand of T&E CEF could get a good deal on when they bought the cable and that the different lengths of reel may or may not come from the same brand.

I need 15m of 1.5mm T&E. There is a CEF around the corner from where I am working. I was considering purchasing a 25m roll from them at £22.20. That works out to 89p per metre but the custom cut cable works out at 78p per metre...

If we also include the 50m and 100m reels we see.

cut lengths - 78p per meter
25m reels - £22.20 - 88.8p per meter
50m reels - £38.34 - 76.68p per meter
100m reels - £52.20 - 52.2p per meter

Of the options the 100m reels have by far the cheapest cost per meter. I find this totally unsurprising.

I presume that the 25m and 50m reels are a separate product from the factory, with their own logistics and warehousing. Whereas I presume the cut length product is cut down in-branch from 100m reels. So all the logistics and warehousing is shared, but you have labour and wastage costs in the branch.

 

[Murdochcat]

Seems a strange way around
screwfix is cheaper and i have been recommend the PRYSMIAN make a few times by electricians and possibly on this forum , maybe another forum
Also cheaper at TLC

The best cable by far - not the cheapest but when you are installing it for customers , quality ALWAYS trumps cheap carp

 

[ETAF]

The best cable by far

do you mean

PRYSMIAN

is - or is that cheap carp, not sure what you meant

 

[EFLImpudence]

Crap isn't censored; we can handle it.

 

[Murdochcat]

do you mean

is - or is that cheap carp, not sure what you meant

Was the bold text not clear enough for you?

 

[ETAF]

no not really ,hence the question, sorry about that

 

[flameport]

Prysmian is a high quality cable. It's negative is that it's supplied in useless cardboard boxes and the world's flimsiest spool which will fall apart after 6 seconds.
Doncaster cable is also a high quality brand and is supplied on spools which do not generally fall apart.

Other miscellaneous no-brand cables from Turkey or whatever that place is called now are available. They might be slightly cheaper. Good luck with those.

 

[robinbanks]

There is a CEF around the corner from where I am working

I think your convenience should trump saving a few quid (that you pass onto the customer?)

Is the client going to pull a face at cable being a tenner more than somewhere less convenient for you? And what's the cost of the job as a whole? Some customers get disproportionally hung up on the weirdest details - if it's 5 grand of prep for a new kitchen, what's a tenner for CEF's cable?

 

[JohnW2]

I think your convenience should trump saving a few quid (that you pass onto the customer?) .... Is the client going to pull a face at cable being a tenner more than somewhere less convenient for you?

You seem to be assuming that opps is an elecxtrician, but my understanding is that he/she isn't. For non-electricians, "saving a few quid" may trump convenience

 

[opps]

You seem to be assuming that opps is an elecxtrician, but my understanding is that he/she isn't. For non-electricians, "saving a few quid" may trump convenience

Correct, I am not an electrician. All the customer wants me to do is move a double light switch from one side of the door frame to the other side. There are two dimmer modules and 4 or 5 lots of T&E and one 3 core and earth. I may well purchase the 25m roll and then 3m of the 3 core and earth. I am invoicing the customer for materials and charging by the hour.

Before removing the faceplate, I thought that I would only need two 3m sections of T&E. Hence I was looking a per metre prices.

To be fair to the customer, she doesn't baulk at the cost of materials too much. I recently had to replace less than a quarter of a square metre of LVT and told her that she would have to pay £25 for the adhesive and a fiver for the 2mm notched comb.

The sad thing is that I will spend an hour on the web trying to save a customer a couple of quid.