Periodic Inspection Pricing Help

[andyr75]

Hi all - first post on here!!

I have been asked to price up a periodic inspection in a large apartment block.

I have never priced anything this big before - been round and carried out a survey and have found 85 DBs with 1161 circuits.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Andy

 

[RWJ]

Hi Andy,

Not sure on your location, but depending on where your based, the age of the install, and accessibility £10 - £20 a circuit is a starting point

 

[SirKit Breaker]

£25 to £30 per circuit, and get some one to help, or you will be there for the rest of your life.

Good luck, a nice job to get.

Cheers.........Howard

 

[davetherave1979]

we are testing a mobile home site at the moment got to test 300 supplies to each mobile home we just charged for 2 man for 2 weeks its quite boring but it beats working in a loft in the nice weather and we are finding loads of faults the site was all rewired in 2003

 

[BertUK]

we did an office block full inspection and test...2 floors..3 ph tn-c-s supply with 1 board to each phase....34 circuits........over 200 sockets and all the lighting was 600 x 600,s with cat 2s....took 2 of us a full week and we charged them £1500 and pulled loads of code 1,s so play it sensible,best to price it by day rate and not per circuit as we all know some circuits can have 1 item and another circuit can have 40 items and £25 quid to do half a days work on 1 circuit is not a good idea,think of it this way,do the day rate thing and you will get price work from the problems you find.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

we did an office block full inspection and test...2 floors..3 ph tn-c-s supply with 1 board to each phase....34 circuits........over 200 sockets and all the lighting was 600 x 600,s with cat 2s....took 2 of us a full week and we charged them £1500 and pulled loads of code 1,s so play it sensible,best to price it by day rate and not per circuit as we all know some circuits can have 1 item and another circuit can have 40 items and £25 quid to do half a days work on 1 circuit is not a good idea,think of it this way,do the day rate thing and you will get price work from the problems you find.

Fair comment. I usually only do domestic test and inspect, so my £25 per circuit usually works out OK. I can see where you are coming from with commercial stuff though.

Cheers.........Howard

 

[Electricalserv]

You seem to have landed a nice job there. You should be well in the money with this one!

 

[Sintra]

I would still advise to price per circuit on commercial. If the client wants an upfront price it is the only way of doing it. Giving them a dayworks rate is fine if you know how many days you will be there.

For £25 a circuit you will win some and lose some but in general it will average out in your favour.

 

[Engineer54]

1161 circuits, At 25 quid a circuit, .....that'll be 29 Grand please sir!!!

Wonder how many companies will stand for that sort of money???

 

[Electricalserv]

1161 circuits, At 25 quid a circuit, .....that'll be 29 Grand please sir!!!

Wonder how many companies will stand for that sort of money???

Because of the amount of circuits, I say there has to be a drop on the price say £15 per circuit