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What would you expact to pay for EXPERT Gas, Oil and Plumbing repairs
budgetflyer
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Im thinking of starting out for myself and am interested what you would consider reasonable for EXPERT, certified Gas, Oil and plumbing repairs and instalations (Outwith London)
How muchis fair for QUALITY Gas, Oil and Plumbing work 10 votes
£30 first hour, £25 thereafter per hour or part
30%
3 votes
£35 first hour, £30 thereafter per hour or part
10%
1 vote
£40 first hour, £30 thereafter per hour or part
10%
1 vote
£45 first hour, £35 thereafter per hour or part
10%
1 vote
£50 first hour, £35 thereafter per hour or part
10%
1 vote
£55 first hour, £35 thereafter per hour or part
30%
3 votes
0
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Good morning: My OH, Corgi Guy, charges roughly the same as your final option (as a plumbing and gas heating engineer with 30 years experience in the southeast of England). I would suspect most people would select Option 1/2 i.e. as customers they would want to be as 'moneysaving' as possible
...not reflecting the reality of what plumbers/heating engineers are actually charging.
HTH
CanuckleheadAsk to see CIPHE (Chartered Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineering)0 -
I charge at the lower end of that range, so I've voted for the nearest one. For your interest there was a poll 3(?) years ago done by a trade mag and the average came out to about £25 per hour on an overall basis. The spread though was much bigger than your poll (£10-£45+ IIRC)A house isn't a home without a cat.
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It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.0 -
My gut feeling is option 4 -> 45 first hour and 35 subsequent. Bigger all day type jobs I could maybe drop to 30.0
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We charge £30 for first hour then £25.We,re in the north west of england and struggle to get that sometimes.I wish corgi installers would join together sometimes and all agree on a minimum charge (if you want to charge more,that's up to you)so that there would be no undercutting.There's one guy I know of who charges £8/hour.Solicitors,accountants etc all seem to have the same minimum charges wherever you go,I wish we did0
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