How much for fixing comps?

petunia100

Does anyone know what is the hourly rate for someone to come to your house to fix comp problems?

d900

it would all depend on what they charge

but between 20-30

someone may just do it for a set fee regardless of time (you have to do this sometimes if its real bad and all your doing is watching status bars move up, its rude to charge someone 60 quid for just clicking a button and waiting 3 hours)

i do it for £20 but does often depend on the situation..sometimes its a simple matter of connecting remotly and clicking a few buttons

Donnie

What's the problem?

mdbarber

d900 wrote: »

it would all depend on what they charge

but between 20-30

someone may just do it for a set fee regardless of time (you have to do this sometimes if its real bad and all your doing is watching status bars move up, its rude to charge someone 60 quid for just clicking a button and waiting 3 hours)

i do it for £20 but does often depend on the situation..sometimes its a simple matter of connecting remotly and clicking a few buttons

This is exactly why there are so few reputable and knowledgeable engineers available, you do not pay for the engineer to click a mouse button and wait hours.
You pay for the years of knowlege attained to be able to quickly diagnose the problem and ensure that rectification of the problem does not cause more damage than good.
You pay for engineers to be available when you need them and to have the parts when you need them.
This has all sorts of costs some obvious some not so.
Expect to pay a call out charge of approx £50, this will usually include 30-60 mins of time and that is usually enough if you have taken steps to minimise the engineers time.
Any firm charging less will likely be running at a loss and may not be there when your "repair" goes haywire.

II_D2_II

i dont charge a thing, i just do it cause i am kind, and then if i get payed something i did then get payed for it.... but im only young,, so in future i will start to charge.

isofa

II_D2_II wrote: »

i dont charge a thing, i just do it cause i am kind, and then if i get payed something i did then get payed for it.... but im only young,, so in future i will start to charge.

That's because it's not your living, you'd not last very long if you worked for free !

Once you'd been paid nothing, people won't like having to stump up cash for the same service, and certainly nothing like the going rate.

I'd say £50 an hour would be reasonable. Personally I'd never get involved going around fixing home computers, utter nightmare and minefield, you could be there for days sorting out serious problems, reinstalling etc.

Unless you are fully booked every hour of every day, you'd really have to make it pay.

II_D2_II

isofa wrote: »

That's because it's not your living, you'd not last very long if you worked for free !

Once you'd been paid nothing, people won't like having to stump up cash for the same service, and certainly nothing like the going rate.

I'd say £50 an hour would be reasonable. Personally I'd never get involved going around fixing home computers, utter nightmare and minefield, you could be there for days sorting out serious problems, reinstalling etc.

Unless you are fully booked every hour of every day, you'd really have to make it pay.

where i am right now( age 19) i dont feel the need to charge,, although every comp i have fixed i have been payed (range from 20-60) so i dotn mind,, when i am known more and see that i am needed a lot more, then i will weork at a fixed rate, or say a price it will cost to fix a specific problem, but for now i am still learning things so you know..

Conor_3

II_D2_II wrote: »

where i am right now( age 19) i dont feel the need to charge,, although every comp i have fixed i have been payed (range from 20-60) so i dotn mind,, when i am known more and see that i am needed a lot more, then i will weork at a fixed rate, or say a price it will cost to fix a specific problem,

...and you'll find that as soon as you start mentioning "It's a £20 callout charge", people magically find the ability to fix it themselves or put up with the problem.

II_D2_II

^^i know lol,, always the way ^^

d900

mdbarber wrote: »

This is exactly why there are so few reputable and knowledgeable engineers available, you do not pay for the engineer to click a mouse button and wait hours.
You pay for the years of knowlege attained to be able to quickly diagnose the problem and ensure that rectification of the problem does not cause more damage than good.
You pay for engineers to be available when you need them and to have the parts when you need them.
This has all sorts of costs some obvious some not so.
Expect to pay a call out charge of approx £50, this will usually include 30-60 mins of time and that is usually enough if you have taken steps to minimise the engineers time.
Any firm charging less will likely be running at a loss and may not be there when your "repair" goes haywire.

well sometimes people do pay for me to simply click a button or 2 im afraid..its not my choice i just fix them and have done now for some 20 years - no call out, no travel charges and £20 an hour, for the larger business i set a retainer and then they can abuse me as much as they like it seems to work well as i know i am always busy and while something like reinstalling windows or moving to a hosted exchange solution may take a long time most of that is sitting around and waiting i use that time to do other work or have a break

i fix family/friends for free but dont let them take advantage as soon as they know someone "knows about computers" you have a job for life and they never learn anything.

[Deleted User]

I'd never get into home repair for the reasons stated already, but I would estimate a reasonable fee would be between £30-50 per hour.

The only people I will help with computing problems are my parents, because I can remote desktop into their machines with ease and usually sort something out quickly. They funded me through university, it's the least I can do. Likewise, with my friends I'll help them but they know that it's not a free ride so dinner and a couple of bottles of wine, or a bottle of spirits is a good enough compromise.

I don't help out others because once you get known as the guy who's good with computers everyone will be pestering you to help them and you get taken for a ride.

I miss the days of doing freelance software, $150 per hour sure was a sweet cherry.