TOP 10 domestic electrical tasks
- Thread starter Mike2007
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Wiring for electric showers must be fairly high on the list.
If you advertise well simple failures for old ladies like blown bulbs perhaps.
It helps to be able to fault find on fluorescent light units.
Replacement CU is about once every 50 years per house. I know one house where it still has white ceramic 5A fuses!
Tony
If you advertise well simple failures for old ladies like blown bulbs perhaps.
It helps to be able to fault find on fluorescent light units.
Replacement CU is about once every 50 years per house. I know one house where it still has white ceramic 5A fuses!
Tony
I get asked to do landlord checks because I am there doing the gas check.
For the electricl inspection I take 1/2 a day and charge £100 on top of the gas check fee which I do in the same half day.
The safety check always leeds on to main equipotential bonding, fixing a few minor things and 50% of the time to a new DB (£270 for new DB and Main bonding, £60 a point for any other work).
I also get asked for full rewires (£60 a point plus £270 for db and bonding) which usually comes out above £3,000.
I was undercut by an old sparks on one ladlord inspection. She was pushing me as to when I could do it, apparently anything but now is unacceptable. How much would you charge? £100, it takes half a day to do properly.
I know the electician who charged her £60 and was in there 5 minutes. I've seen him at work, he's a form filler. Never moves from the understairs cupboard.
At the moment the jury is out as to which way to jump, but I sense that due to the public backlash against the plumbing trade and over joining of the industry by computer workers who saw a program once that said plumbing pays £60k, that electrical fitting is better payed. I have certainly noticed much better attitude from members of the public, and it's always nice to be given some credit for intelligence by the governing body.
I don't get any calls for the items you listed non whatsoever. It's either a full blown job or nothing whatsoever.
Of course I have the associated work which comes through being a plumber which is showers immersions electrical side of boiler installs, motorised valves to fix, and most houses, when you are actually there have a light that doesn't work, so it's the same old story you get work by doing work.
For the electricl inspection I take 1/2 a day and charge £100 on top of the gas check fee which I do in the same half day.
The safety check always leeds on to main equipotential bonding, fixing a few minor things and 50% of the time to a new DB (£270 for new DB and Main bonding, £60 a point for any other work).
I also get asked for full rewires (£60 a point plus £270 for db and bonding) which usually comes out above £3,000.
I was undercut by an old sparks on one ladlord inspection. She was pushing me as to when I could do it, apparently anything but now is unacceptable. How much would you charge? £100, it takes half a day to do properly.
I know the electician who charged her £60 and was in there 5 minutes. I've seen him at work, he's a form filler. Never moves from the understairs cupboard.
At the moment the jury is out as to which way to jump, but I sense that due to the public backlash against the plumbing trade and over joining of the industry by computer workers who saw a program once that said plumbing pays £60k, that electrical fitting is better payed. I have certainly noticed much better attitude from members of the public, and it's always nice to be given some credit for intelligence by the governing body.
I don't get any calls for the items you listed non whatsoever. It's either a full blown job or nothing whatsoever.
Of course I have the associated work which comes through being a plumber which is showers immersions electrical side of boiler installs, motorised valves to fix, and most houses, when you are actually there have a light that doesn't work, so it's the same old story you get work by doing work.
Thanks for the replies, I accidently posted it in plumbing and heating but still raised a decent response!
Sparkies now install showers because of the new regs, the trade boundaries have blured a little! Besides, its a matter of how much information a person can take in, not one trade or another.
Sparkies now install showers because of the new regs, the trade boundaries have blured a little! Besides, its a matter of how much information a person can take in, not one trade or another.
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