£100 for a 2 minute job?

abc987

@matticus7 Change rolls with the plumber. If you were the plumber, how would you have handled the job?
Bearing in mind that you (as the plumber) have overheads.
I don't know how much plumbers earn, but I guess they want to take home about £30K - £100k a year. 

TELLIT01

I can understand the OP not being happy that they had paid for work which didn't fix the problem.  That doesn't change the fact that the charge, had the job been done correctly in the first place is not excessive.

AskAsk

plumbers charge per hour, with a minimum hour charge.  they will charge unless you have agreed with them that they would come round and give you a quote for repair.  if it is a leak then they won't give quotes so although on the high side, this is not that unusual.

i paid £100 recently for 20 minutes work from a plumber as he came out the same day.  i sent him photos of a dripping tap and he quoted from the photos as he could see what the problem was.  it is always best to do the plumbing yourself if you can as often you can do a better job if you learn to do it and will save yourself a lot of money as trades people charge premium, especially during lock down.

fred246

It always amazes me that you can get a carer, a cleaner or a hairdresser come to your house with all their equipment and charge you £25 for a couple of hours while a plumber charges you £100 just to get there. A hairdresser is more skilled than a plumber I would say.

TELLIT01

fred246 said:

It always amazes me that you can get a carer, a cleaner or a hairdresser come to your house with all their equipment and charge you £25 for a couple of hours while a plumber charges you £100 just to get there. A hairdresser is more skilled than a plumber I would say.

That being the case get a cleaner or hairdresser to fix your next water leak.  The OP had tried many times to fix the problem and failed.  The plumber did fix the problem albeit at the second attempt.

Jeepers_Creepers

True, but seemingly with sealant :-( 

abc987

A photo of the problem/leak/location would help us to understand the problem.

AskAsk

fred246 said:

It always amazes me that you can get a carer, a cleaner or a hairdresser come to your house with all their equipment and charge you £25 for a couple of hours while a plumber charges you £100 just to get there. A hairdresser is more skilled than a plumber I would say.

plumbers charge more because it is often an emergency and so the customer is held to ransom.  a good plumber is also very skilled, no less than a hairdresser i would say.

Risteard

AskAsk said:

fred246 said:

It always amazes me that you can get a carer, a cleaner or a hairdresser come to your house with all their equipment and charge you £25 for a couple of hours while a plumber charges you £100 just to get there. A hairdresser is more skilled than a plumber I would say.

plumbers charge more because it is often an emergency and so the customer is held to ransom.  a good plumber is also very skilled, no less than a hairdresser i would say.

Not held to ransom. It costs money to respond to emergency call-outs. They really aren't as profitable as many assume.

fred246

It's dead easy to teach yourself plumbing. Hardly any tools needed. Just connecting up a few pipes. Hairdressing is much more complicated. Everyone is different. All the different styles and colours. It's on a different level of complexity.