Rough price guide for connecting replacement boiler?

[jeffreyw]

for petes sake 100 quid would not even fit my mate 1 for hundred
for me i reckon 400 quid straight swap and all my materials are provided for me

 

[tek2k]

Thanks for all the replies. I have a fairer idea of what to expect now.

I guess its just a monopoly at the end of the day. People have no choice but to pay.

 

[kevplumb]

$1800 + travelling

 

[gasacs]

Thanks for all the replies. I have a fairer idea of what to expect now.

I guess its just a monopoly at the end of the day. People have no choice but to pay.

Just like everything else in life ie Fuel etc. As a previous poster pointed out it costs us RGI's to keep our qualifications up to date, PL insurance, CORGI membership etc. When you take all of those things plus keeping a van on the road you start to realise why these jobs don't get done properly for the money you mentioned..

 

[Agile]

not £50 per hour for a boiler replacement its not done on an hourly rate.
think of this...

you seek say bowel surgery..

so who do you go and see?

the butcher?

or a thorasic surgeon?

both can do the job

I would have to disagree with that last statement!

"""Unlike general surgeons who may operate on most parts of the body, thoracic surgeons concentrate solely upon the following categories


Cardiac Surgery - The surgical management of diseases of the blood supply to the heart, heart valves and the great vessels (aorta and vena cava) in the chest, including cardiac transplantation.
General Thoracic Surgery – A surgical field focusing on treatments for lung cancer, tumors of the chest wall, emphysema, esophageal swallowing problems, lung transplantation, esophageal cancer and gastroesophageal reflux.
Congenital Heart Surgery – A broad--yet highly specialized--practice of medicine directed toward the correction of heart defects, and furnishing cardiovascular support to infants and children, which also includes pediatric heart transplantation."""

Bowel surgery seems to be dealt with by general surgeons who specialise with that work without having any special title.

Unlike CORGI people who have to repeat their qualifications every five years, surgeons only seem to have to get qualified once and it lasts until they retire perhaps 40 years later! One could say their expertise is more life threatening that gas work!

Tony

 

[gasacs]

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Unlike CORGI people who have to repeat their qualifications every five years, surgeons only seem to have to get qualified once and it lasts until they retire perhaps 40 years later! One could say their expertise is more life threatening that gas work!

Tony

Gas boiler design and flueing standards etc are changing all the time, the human body has not changed it's design in years

 

[corgigreg]

The CORGI regs were introduced for safety reasons. Not as an excuse for
registered fitters to double their incomes. There is absolutely no reason that
your job cannot be done on an hourly rate. £50/Hr for about 4 hours sounds fair for the properly qualified guy. If the new one is a close enough replacement it can comfortably be done in less than that.
£700 is extortionate but thats what people are having to pay which forces DIYers to have a go and compromises safety again. I know of people that paid £700 for fitting a replacement + £1000 to supply a boiler
which costs £400 trade. Pure greed and their should be added legislation to stop this too. Comparing a surgeon to a butcher is not a suitable analogy at all. It takes 10 years intensive training and costs a fortune to become a surgeon and a Butcher is a completly different trade. To equip for surgery costs hundreds of thousands of pounds too.
The difference between a CORGI qualified plumber and an unqualified is tiny compared to the Surgeon/Butcher senario. You can jump from unqualified to qualified in a few weeks and for a couple of thousand pounds be well kitted out.
Previous commenter is right "plumbers are not god". But there are good plumbers and bad plumbers and perhaps a forced code of ethics is required. Just because I can charge the old couple across the road a thousand pounds for 2hrs work and 3hrs drinking tea doesn't mean its right to do it!

 

[Corgigrouch]

Thanks for all the replies. I have a fairer idea of what to expect now.

I guess its just a monopoly at the end of the day. People have no choice but to pay.

Yep, it's just a Monopoly... Just like the driver of that forty tonner can only do his job with a C+E licence, the airline pilot can only fly with his licence, your sparky needs to prove that he can work safely.... If you want a cheap job done, then by all means you will find someone to sign off your work, I have no doubt.. But as soon as anything goes wrong, you will be the same guy who is jumping up and down demanding that something is done about cowboy gas men.. And then we all have to suffer even tighter regulation and the next DIY have a go hero is bellyaching about the price of gasmen..

 

[Agile]

£700 is extortionate but thats what people are having to pay which forces DIYers to have a go and compromises safety again. I know of people that paid £700 for fitting a replacement + £1000 to supply a boiler
which costs £400 trade.

The yardstick price is created by British Gas who many older people still think are the only people able to fit boilers. Still lovinging called the Gas Board!

Since the BG price is so high then surely no independent will be extortionately overcharging when he can offer a saving of £1000 on the BG price?

Tony

 

[corgigreg]

I have no qualms about repeating taking my qualifications every 5 years.
Its no problem. My brother who is a surgeon is constantly studying and having to learn new techniques and spends many thousands to do so as does a friend of mine who is a dentist. Surgeons definatly do take peoples lives in their hands literally every day. We only have to learn a few basic skills and rules. Theres hardly any comparison. Not by a long chalk.

Truck drivers do not have the ability in general to take advantage of the general public and their skill level dictates a certain value in the market.
So their salaries are pretty even all over.

All I am saying is that I to charge £700 for about 3 hours work is not delivering customer value. All my customers are happy and always recommend me to friends and family. My concience is clear and what goes around comes around.

 

[Agile]

All I am saying is that I to charge £700 for about 3 hours work is not delivering customer value. All my customers are happy and always recommend me to friends and family. My concience is clear and what goes around comes around.

You dont say what you are charging £700 for but if its a replacement boiler then how can you possibly power flush a system AND fit a new boiler in such a short time ? I would take at least two days for a combi replacement.

Tony

 

[Corgigrouch]

For 3 hours work, I would charge my half day rate but who is going to fit a boiler in 3 hours? Unless it is drain, off the wall, fit new expansion vessel and new boiler back on the wall and test...Cleaning and service included

 

[GasMan1965]

I have no qualms about repeating taking my qualifications every 5 years.
Its no problem. My brother who is a surgeon is constantly studying and having to learn new techniques and spends many thousands to do so as does a friend of mine who is a dentist. Surgeons definatly do take peoples lives in their hands literally every day. We only have to learn a few basic skills and rules. Theres hardly any comparison. Not by a long chalk.

Truck drivers do not have the ability in general to take advantage of the general public and their skill level dictates a certain value in the market.
So their salaries are pretty even all over.

All I am saying is that I to charge £700 for about 3 hours work is not delivering customer value. All my customers are happy and always recommend me to friends and family. My concience is clear and what goes around comes around.

I dont believe your a RGI

 

[Corgigrouch]

I have no qualms about repeating taking my qualifications every 5 years.
Its no problem. My brother who is a surgeon is constantly studying and having to learn new techniques and spends many thousands to do so as does a friend of mine who is a dentist. Surgeons definatly do take peoples lives in their hands literally every day. We only have to learn a few basic skills and rules. Theres hardly any comparison. Not by a long chalk.

Truck drivers do not have the ability in general to take advantage of the general public and their skill level dictates a certain value in the market.
So their salaries are pretty even all over.

All I am saying is that I to charge £700 for about 3 hours work is not delivering customer value. All my customers are happy and always recommend me to friends and family. My concience is clear and what goes around comes around.

I dont believe your a RGI

Ha Ha I don't believe that his brother is a surgeon either

 

[GasMan1965]

I have no qualms about repeating taking my qualifications every 5 years.
Its no problem. My brother who is a surgeon is constantly studying and having to learn new techniques and spends many thousands to do so as does a friend of mine who is a dentist. Surgeons definatly do take peoples lives in their hands literally every day. We only have to learn a few basic skills and rules. Theres hardly any comparison. Not by a long chalk.

Truck drivers do not have the ability in general to take advantage of the general public and their skill level dictates a certain value in the market.
So their salaries are pretty even all over.

All I am saying is that I to charge £700 for about 3 hours work is not delivering customer value. All my customers are happy and always recommend me to friends and family. My concience is clear and what goes around comes around.

I dont believe your a RGI

Ha Ha I don't believe that his brother is a surgeon either

I used to have that operation game ,, maybe thats what his bro has got