How much to change 8 rad stats

[Alfredo]

Not including drain down time and re-fill time. I would say that 10-15 mins per rad would be well in, assuming no pipework changes other than perhaps cutting 2 or 3mm off the top of the pipe if needed to fit the new valve.

Why not include drain down and refilling time ? It can vary tremendously. It was a 14 rad system (2 already had TRVS) on three floors, so lots of exercise on refill. I certainly wasn't going to risk 'bunging' the rads with brand new white carpets everywhere. The microbore was a nightmare as it came out of stud walls at an angle very tight to the rad and getting the mini hacksaw onto the olives was so tight the saw stroke was very small without knocking large chunks out of the plasterboard. In fact now I remember it was so tight I had to cut through the nuts first to get to the olives so they took longer than usual to saw through and there was no 'spare' pipe if i did foul up...which is why it took longer.

I really don't need a know it all a*se like namsag telling me my job. Unlike him however I don't claim perfection. Perhaps he needs his nuts sawing off as well.....

Alfredo

 

[namsag]

Simple combi system .
So IF it needs draining hose on. Open d/cock as you walk around upstairs rads opening bleeds either pull carpet back or use what ever protection needed head downstairs put protection around valves .
By that time upstairs is drained do a valve and nip down stairs to open bleeds do another valve upstairs nip downstairs and move hose to any additional drops and open bleeds .

Finish rads upstairs and go to first one down stairs that was drained and so on. then refill .
Its called not fannying about and doing what you are paid for

 

[namsag]

Know it all smart arse.
From someone who doesn't even know what a 3/4 cap is or even more basic a compression cap. My lad who has only helped me a few times would even be embarrassed to ask that one.

Ten council services a day oh yeah thats pressure get real FFS

 

[Alfredo]

And if the only drain cock on the system is seized and the rubber washer gets stuck up inside it as its old and perished, or..as on this microbore the drains were integral in the lockshields with a screw head to undo them, and they drained very very slowly, so you had to undo the rad valve and drain into a pot and bucket to get any volume out, so you couldn't be anywhere else "nipping" about the place.

In your world it all obviously goes swimmingly and straightforward....

As I said you obviously an a*se

Alfredo

 

[Paul Barker]

Well as it's a house in Bromly it isn't the worst scenario.

Quite likely that £400 is too much by a fair margin.

does that answer the original question?

 

[gas4you]

I didn't include drain/re-filling precisely because of what you posted after 'quoting' my post.

That is the variable that I cannot see from here, so could be 30 mins, could be 2 hours.

 

[Alfredo]

I didn't include drain/re-filling precisely because of what you posted after 'quoting' my post.

That is the variable that I cannot see from here, so could be 30 mins, could be 2 hours.

Exactly. Every job is different. Some are dead easy and some are not.

Some round here (not you) appear never to have made a mistake in their lives and like to take the mick when others less perfect than they are admit that now and again a) they make a mistake or b)take a bit longer on a job.

Alfredo

 

[Alfredo]

[quote="namsag";p="1729291" My lad who has only helped me a few times would even be embarrassed to ask that one.

[/quote]

Thats all we need..... Batman and Robin...

Alfredo

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

The whole bloody point is, NOBODY CAN PRICE FOR A JOB THEY HAVEN'T SEEN.

 

[electrospark]

The whole bloody point is, NOBODY CAN PRICE FOR A JOB THEY HAVEN'T SEEN.

Take a chill pill you lot. Advice not a price is what I was after. I think I have a good idea now for you guys that have given advise.