EIGHTY NINE POUNDS!!

[tim]

To change a washer on a water softener. Fifteen minutes.

I'm in the wrong job!!

[tim]

[OllieC]

Scandalous.

[Emagggie]

Was that £88 pounds call out Tim?  ::)

[calendula]

think I'd dump the water softener  ::)

also name and shame the company that charged that amount

[tim]

Maggie - £40 call out & £49 for the 15 min!

[Froglegs]

Thats a £196.00 an hour :o

[Emagggie]

 :o :o :o :o :o :o...........think I'll send BW who is about to retire to plumbing school.

[tim]

To be fair, that cost would have covered an hour's work.

[debster]

call out fee for a vet £90 before even seeing the animal !!!!!!!

[Multiveg]

But there is a shortage of plumbers....

[gunnerbee]

report them to rogue traders!!

[northener]

I don't know how they can look you in the eye. I'm a self employed sparky and i just can't rip people off. A customer was telling me the other day she had been charged £285 for putting 6 downlights in a bathroom. Lights cost maybe £ 50 he was there 2 hrs. Luckily i know the guy i'm going to pull him next time i see him.On the otherside i put 2 extra sockets in a conservatory last week. £20 each extra socket so i asked told the woman she owed me £40  'how much you are joking for 2 sockets'  she was just looking at the socket fronts. Forgetting the backbox's cable etc. She reluctantly paid me.

[Vony]

I don't understand, but with all the pluming joints being push and shove , once knowing this .it"s worth having a go and if you fails call in the plumers, and make them work for ther money.

Vony

[gingerninja38]

when we were replacing our kitchen, we had the cooker moved 5 feet to another wall and so had to have the pipe extended. as you have to be corgi registered we called a local fella in. he charged me £98 for 5 feet of copper pipe, 1 joint thingy (where the extention joined to the old pipe) and 20 minutes work!

[Larkshall]

My cousin was a heating engineer (Corgi regd.) now retired. He said you are allowed to do your own work but not allowed to do it for anyone else.

Unlike the electrical regs. where even my friends who have been in the industry all their lives (one was a contractor) and are not allowed to do their own work now.

However, you can replace a faulty terminal (socket, lampholder etc.). We spent years trying to get people to not use extension leads and sockets, but now they are encouraging people to have wander leads all over the place. In my office I have 20 13a sockets (for computer equipment etc.), only 3 of which are hard wired. You just have to be careful that you do not exceed 13a on any one hard wired socket.

In discussion with my ex-electrician friends we decided that the industry will develope into being labourers and apprentices doing the work and qualified electricians signing it off.