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Nov 9, 2016 23:05:17 GMT
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Post by endfeed on Nov 9, 2016 23:05:17 GMT
Neighbour accross road has asked if i will take off 2 rads for decorators and put em back after, offered to do em for free but they insisted on paying me but i dont know how much to charge any ideas??😊
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Post by crowsfoot on Nov 10, 2016 7:18:26 GMT
If there was one piece of advice that I could pass back in time for myself it would be not to do jobs for free or on the cheap; you've got to remember plumbing is you and your families livelihood.
If you do work cheaply in no time at all you will have a never ending stream of jobs that people will expect you to do for "Ten bob and a rabbit"!
It's very difficult to break out of this circle once you drop in it.
I would charge the normal hourly rate (whatever that is).
Tappy,
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Post by tomplum on Nov 10, 2016 8:52:43 GMT
I charge £50 off and back on, If its local, I do't get many small rads as they'll have a go themselves when i tell the price, but they can't handle the big ones,
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Post by crowsfoot on Nov 11, 2016 7:04:26 GMT
That sounds about the right price to me tom.
Although, with a radiator that is larger than my own arm spam I would ask for some help with the lift.
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Post by tomplum on Nov 11, 2016 8:48:25 GMT
I take the grills off and use the welded cross pieces as handles, I also blank the valve tails so that no water leaks out, I've lifted 2 mtr type 22 rads like this, Even though it says on the tin, " this is a 2 man job to lift", ,,, that's why we're all fucked at 55,  |
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Post by Mash on Nov 11, 2016 15:48:05 GMT
I lift the real big'uns the same way Tom, sometimes those bastard grills never go back right though  |
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Nov 12, 2016 9:37:59 GMT
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Post by endfeed on Nov 12, 2016 9:37:59 GMT
Thanks for advise on this guys i find it hard to charge because im not self employed,i need to toughen up a bit! Went over yesterday and they had cream carpet😨rusted up rads around rad tail!! Never sraight forward when its for friends/neighbours or family!put loads of roll and stroll down and dust sheets.job went well gona charge 20squid when i put them back on,as i kwow them well.thanks chaps😊
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Post by crowsfoot on Nov 12, 2016 10:31:40 GMT
A few years ago I was working with another plumber (for the same firm) when his phone rang.
It was someone he knew who's toilet wasn't flushing, after establishing it was the syphon that needed replacing the conversation went something like this.
"A syphon will set you back around the £40.00 mark, then we'll need a new syphon kit they cost £10.00 so that's £50 but that doesn't include my labour or travel cost. Where do you live? Mmmm that's about 1/2hrs drive away...we'll say £90.00 all in is that alright?
I'm thinking £90.00 for a ruddy syphon!!!!!
This is were I've gone wrong!
Tappy,
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Nov 12, 2016 11:01:01 GMT
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Post by endfeed on Nov 12, 2016 11:01:01 GMT
Plumbers have tools,van,petrol,insur,plus knowledge! Customers dont think about that when paying!im planning on going selfemployed if i ever got finished at work. Whats it like out there?is there always plenty of work?
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Post by joinerjohn on Nov 12, 2016 11:05:52 GMT
Neighbour accross road has asked if i will take off 2 rads for decorators and put em back after, offered to do em for free but they insisted on paying me but i dont know how much to charge any ideas??😊 Don't forget the lovely cream coloured carpet they've just had put down a fortnight ago.  |
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Post by endfeed on Nov 12, 2016 11:14:24 GMT
Can you imagine black rad water all over the cream carpet. Spent about half anhour putting roll and stroll down and dust sheets. Im like frank spenser mate if anybodys gona spill any its me!! Uuu betty!😁
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Post by crowsfoot on Nov 12, 2016 15:04:11 GMT
Cream and White Coloured Carpets = Plumbers Nightmare Job  Then the black splodge always drops on the only 1" of carpet you've missed covering !! |
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Post by crowsfoot on Nov 12, 2016 15:14:17 GMT
Plumbers have tools,van,petrol,insur,plus knowledge! Customers dont think about that when paying!im planning on going selfemployed if i ever got finished at work. Whats it like out there?is there always plenty of work? I've always managed to work for somebody since I was 16 EF. My first Boss had a saying "show me a business man and I'll show you a poorly man" The poor bugger was dead 4 years later. So no, I wouldn't recommend working for yourself although I've never tried it. If I got finished I would do something else. From the plumbers I know who've tried working for themselves the problem always seems to be the same one of "getting the money in"! |
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Post by tomplum on Nov 12, 2016 16:00:59 GMT
each to his own,I've mostly been self employed from about 1984, I've worked 'cards in' as well but enjoy the freedom of self employment, If i don't like a job, i won't do it,
Like crowsfoot says, the biggest drawback is none payers, I've worked all my life and I've a house to show for it, thats all really, i've no big savings or good pension to carry me though the winter of my life, but if i had to go through life again, I would't change anything,
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Post by rocketmanbkk on Nov 12, 2016 16:49:22 GMT
Self employed is the way to go if you can earn a living or more.
I'm going contracting from Monday but I won't burn my bridges until I know it's ok.
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