samueljames wrote:
She seems to think £10 an hour is sufficient, in her words
She won't get a plumber of any quality for £10 per hour. If you hadn't posted in so much detail before this point I would have said that this is a wind-up.
samueljames wrote:
(i dont earn that much an hour and i work in a bank)
And I'm really struggling to believe this. Unless you're a cleaner in a bank...
I get the impression that you plumbers live in cloud cuckoo land !
I certainly believe that a bank worker (non-cleaner) could be on £10/hr.
I'm always amazed by the hourly rate that plumbers get.
As an electronic equipment design engineer, my job requires electronic/ mechanical design, programming & document preparation.
I've been doing the job for over 30 years and am on an hourly rate of £13.
There are other chief engineers in my lab who are responsible for the design of radar equipment using very advanced techniques, they are on about £16/hr.
It's no wonder that so many IT workers are becoming plumbers !
A friend of mine had a BG quote of £3500 to fit a new boiler into another room, he then got a quote from someone else for £2400. He settled on a quote of £1500 'cash in hand' from someone that was recommended.
The old boiler had already been removed so the plumber only had to fit the (system) boiler into the another room and pipe it up. The job took a day and a half which, when you take away the cost of the boiler and fittings, probably made him over £800 profit, ie £525/day.
I would be happy to get that in a week !.
I recently fitted a Vaillant combi with new rads and pipework into my own house when my backboiler died (also fitted by me 25 years ago) so I know that it's not a magic art, just hard work and experience, which is no different from other jobs on a fraction of plumbers wages.