Fair day rate for a plumber

heating-eng

new_home_owner wrote: »

yep im sure you would p!ss putting up a motorised satellite system, programming recievers, cams with network sharing.

just like any dummy can do a but of plumbing.

if you can do it then i am sure most people on here could also do it

andertonj

Hi

Generally, rates are not fixed for any plumbing work. It would be good if you pay for work done by him instead of hourly rates.


regards,
John A.

phill99

new_home_owner. You will be pleased to know that your official status has gone up from that of 'Idiot' to that of 'W*nker'

heating-eng

phill99 wrote: »

new_home_owner. You will be pleased to know that your official status has gone up from that of 'Idiot' to that of 'W*nker'

Can we start a group to get rid of him LOL

BaldPlumber

andertonj wrote: »

Generally, rates are not fixed for any plumbing work. It would be good if you pay for work done by him instead of hourly rates.

Generally speaking, they are.

Firebird

Well i've just been quoted £50 per hour would have been £75 but since the job is for a previous customer.
I was looking for a price to have a closed valve heating system drained - not refilled or anything else just drained. I contacted the same company (specialises in central heating) who usually services the boiler anually to get a price and came here to see if it was a good rate.
What do you think?

heating-eng

Firebird wrote: »

Well i've just been quoted £50 per hour would have been £75 but since the job is for a previous customer.
I was looking for a price to have a closed valve heating system drained - not refilled or anything else just drained. I contacted the same company (specialises in central heating) who usually services the boiler anually to get a price and came here to see if it was a good rate.
What do you think?

Depends really how long it will take them. i would say a fixed price would be better.
£50 a hour is very high, i only charge £120 per day.

new_home_owner_3

heating-eng wrote: »

Depends really how long it will take them. i would say a fixed price would be better.
£50 a hour is very high, i only charge £120 per day.

so if you charge 120 pound per day and a average day work is 8 hours your happy having 15 pound per hour? which i think is a reasonable rate, iy just goes to show not all plumbers are out to rip people off.

nickj_2

heating-eng wrote: »

Depends really how long it will take them. i would say a fixed price would be better.
£50 a hour is very high, i only charge £120 per day.

i would say that £120 for a plumber is too cheap , i know it depends on what area of the country you live in , but i charge more than that a day and i'm a painter , however i live in a very expensive area , when i started work in 1982 the guys i was working with were getting £60 a day then , 99% my work come from word of mouth or repeat business , in the last 3 years i've only lost 3 jobs that i've priced for , and 2 of them still haven't been painted to date , i've only had one customer tell me that i'm too expensive and he hadn't got a clue as to how much the materials were going to cost ofr the outside of his house .
my wife charges £10 per hr and she just cleans houses ,that is the going rate for this area , she has no real overheads , so heating -eng may be it's time for a price hike to a realistic rate if there's the demand

before new home owner delights us with his words of wisdom , maybe he would like to tell us what he does for a living and how much his pay is , i mean , he ace at sorting out satelite dishes , he's an ace mechanic and he what he doesn't knows about about plumbing isn't worth knowing , so unless he's earning £240k+ a year he might want to think about changing jobs and earing some real money

docmatt

nickj wrote: »

i would say that £120 for a plumber is too cheap , i know it depends on what area of the country you live in , but i charge more than that a day and i'm a painter , however i live in a very expensive area , when i started work in 1982 the guys i was working with were getting £60 a day then , 99% my work come from word of mouth or repeat business , in the last 3 years i've only lost 3 jobs that i've priced for , and 2 of them still haven't been painted to date , i've only had one customer tell me that i'm too expensive and he hadn't got a clue as to how much the materials were going to cost ofr the outside of his house .
my wife charges £10 per hr and she just cleans houses ,that is the going rate for this area , she has no real overheads , so heating -eng may be it's time for a price hike to a realistic rate if there's the demand

before new home owner delights us with his words of wisdom , maybe he would like to tell us what he does for a living and how much his pay is , i mean , he ace at sorting out satelite dishes , he's an ace mechanic and he what he doesn't knows about about plumbing isn't worth knowing , so unless he's earning £240k+ a year he might want to think about changing jobs and earing some real money

The state pays most of his money.