Cost charged internally for a meter change?

utility_csa

Estimations are totally wrong.

we currently sell our overstock of single phase smart meters for over £140.
You then need to pay for a sim card to be sat in the meter which costs a few quid a month.
Engineer pay 18.5 k is starting pay on domestic for a few companies. So roughly £9.60 a hour. If not they are on PPJ which is around £12 a meter from what a few have said this seems to be the going rate on domestic.

One of my engineers said when working on PPJ he could fit upto 20 standard credit meters a day

C_Mababejive

utility_csa wrote: »

Estimations are totally wrong.

we currently sell our overstock of single phase smart meters for over £140.
You then need to pay for a sim card to be sat in the meter which costs a few quid a month.
Engineer pay 18.5 k is starting pay on domestic for a few companies. So roughly £9.60 a hour. If not they are on PPJ which is around £12 a meter from what a few have said this seems to be the going rate on domestic.

One of my engineers said when working on PPJ he could fit upto 20 standard credit meters a day

Presumably they get no pay for no access?

utility_csa

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Presumably they get no pay for no access?

Indeed! No access or Aborted are zero pay.

And some companies wonder why their installs are so poor...

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utility_csa wrote: »

Indeed! No access or Aborted are zero pay.

And some companies wonder why their installs are so poor...

Just wondered why a lot of fitters turn up and then leave saying they are not trained to work when lead pipes are involved to the gas meters. I hear this excuse all the time. People are very annoyed, taking days off work and waiting around all day to have this happen. Do you think they may be making an excuse to get out of a difficult meter exchange or are they genuinely not allowed to work with lead pipes

Terrylw1

sacsquacco wrote: »

Just wondered why a lot of fitters turn up and then leave saying they are not trained to work when lead pipes are involved to the gas meters. I hear this excuse all the time. People are very annoyed, taking days off work and waiting around all day to have this happen. Do you think they may be making an excuse to get out of a difficult meter exchange or are they genuinely not allowed to work with lead pipes

Its also interesting from a suppliers point of view because there is a difference between No Access and the other abortive reasons.

So, suppliers have to check their contracts to determine whether they are being charged for aborts due to a failure on the agents part to complete the work. I once asked this question to be told they weren't sure!

utility_csa

sacsquacco wrote: »

Just wondered why a lot of fitters turn up and then leave saying they are not trained to work when lead pipes are involved to the gas meters. I hear this excuse all the time. People are very annoyed, taking days off work and waiting around all day to have this happen. Do you think they may be making an excuse to get out of a difficult meter exchange or are they genuinely not allowed to work with lead pipes

im sure the reason for not working on lead pipes is they have a rare chance of cracking. The average meter fitter does not want to bother with that...