Fair day rate for a plumber

nickj_2

if the job took a day and a half you would have been annoyed if he charged you more , you got a quote for £200 and that is what you were charged .
i find that if i finish a job quicker than what i've allowed if the customer has been pleasant to work for then i will knock a bit off , i've just done 2 jobs recently where i have done this , one was for an elderly lady , she paid me as soon as i finished , i finished a day quicker than i had priced for , so i knocked a bit off , the other job was for a guy , however he has kept me waiting over a week for my money so the next job i do for him will cost him a bit more , it's give and take , if people are fair with me , i'm quite happy to be fair with them , however if they take the pee then that is a different matter

fluffpot

besides, he's not 'earning' £200 per hour - you said it took him 2 hours 10 mins, so that's £100 per hour, less the materials, travel time, overheads etc as has been done to death on this thread

Not unreasonable rates for a plumber

macman

And because you booked him to do a particular job which he estimated to take x hours. If when he gets there he finds that you've done half of it already and it will take half that time, he''s still potentially turned away other work to do your job. Any hours left are now 'dead time'.
So I'd say he's perfectly entitled to charge you the original amount quoted.
If he knew that the job value had 'reduced' magically to £100, then he might have preferred to do another job instead in that slot and reschedule you.
There seems to be an assumption here that good tradesmen are just sitting waiting for the phone to ring and have no work in hand or booked in.

JeffAJD

Treadstone009 wrote: »

Thats not unreasonable imo, about what i'd pay for one specific job lasting upto an hour, remember he has spend maybe 10 minutes + each way travel time to reach you possibly more if he doesn't know the area, advertising costs, costs of maintaining kit/tools van etc, mobile phone bills, all has to be considered.

This is the trouble now is been here 15 mins and bill is £50, people have no idea what running costs a business has in one year, what do you expect him to charge you a fiver.

JeffAJD

wood-is-good wrote: »

As a long standing self employed tradesman I am aware of the cost of running a business and am willing to pay the going rate. I decided to employ a plumber to install an electric shower. I went to rated .com and duly got myself a plumber who quoted me 200ukp as it was a days work. He turned up to find that I had already bled the system, exposed the pipework so he could get on with the job. he capped the hot water pipe screwed the shower onto a wooden surface, connected it up and fitted the hand rail. I then asked him if he would fit an overflow to my kitchen sink which he did. I supplied all the bits except the cap and overflow. n all it took 2 hours and ten minutes . when I asked him for the bill he said we agreed 200ukp I was gobsmacked as I thought he would have adjusted the bill according to how long it did take ,not so. I could have fitted the shower quicker and done a better job but I thought I would get a proper plumber to do the job. I should have done more leg work but I didn't have the time. I wish I could earn 200ukp per hour. kind Regards
ps sorry for picking up this thread but I feel so stupid for being so trustworthy

If something took 2 hrs and he said a days work, I would say inexperienced !

JeffAJD

christineperseus wrote: »

Well I paid £50 for having a pressure reducing valve changed.........(I had the valve so wasn't paying any materials)
He wasn't in the house more than 30mins AND he has previously done lots of work for us..........
He's cetainly off our Christmas card list - AND it was CASH..........:mad:

So if he'd done lots of work for you should he have charged you a fiver. If someone charges you £50 and is in your property 30 mins do you think that person as made a pure £50 profit.

Robbie_Ward

I am a self employed Gas Safe registered engineer and if I am doing a job which is going to take me a full day(ie 8 hrs say)I need to be charging about £160 per day labour MINIMUM(ie £20 per hour)and any job I go to,ie fitting a cooker or Landlord safety certificate I have to be looking at charging between £60-£80,again labour only MINIMUM in order for me to make it worth my while,though I do offer discount to landlords/letting agencies if they provide me with multiple properties.That is in the Manchester area,and maybe those prices are perhaps too cheap but a major problem I have faced is people doing jobs at a dirt cheap rate,now I don't care if they screw themselves up,the trouble is they screw it up for everyone else,and that I find very annoying.

docmatt

Ahh I see this has been raised from the dead again...

southcoastrgi

nice bit of advertising there Robbie

Robbie_Ward

southcoastrgi wrote: »

nice bit of advertising there Robbie

Well if you have any good advice for me where prices are concerned,please let me know.