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i am new to this and trying to learn, what is yt2??
Not sure if this is the right section or not.
I priced for a job yesterday to fit a new double socket. There were no sockets nearby that I could come from etc and reckoned that the job would take 2 hours max plus a couple of lengths of YT2, double pattress and a double socket, test and cert for £70 at the most. The lady nearly died!!
Needless to say I haven't got the job and she told me there and then. I've lost a couple of jobs through price but just reckoned I was unlucky. I don't see myself as being cheap cheap but I do a good quality job with quality materials.
we are currently taking a client to court over non payment of our electrical work.
The courts decided in their wisdom to appoint an 'expert' to value the job. each party were asked to give him an instruction adn in ours we asked him to ascertain whether the work was priced between the highest and lowest price in the area for this sort of work (domestic).
Even after we had obtained over ten other quotes for the same work and sent them to the 'expert' he dismissed them as saying that even if they were to be taken into account he would need to allow for JIB rate increases and Materials increases and then the current economic situation. We are currently in the process of waiting for a reply as to why he didnt do this.
Any way his report has stated that we should be charging £16.41 an hour as this is based in JIB electricians wages!!! He gets this from Luckins.
We are not JIB affiliated and nor our our sparks.
WE'RE ALL DOOMED LADS.
Richard,
Where did you find you expert witness. just in case we have the opertunity to bring one in for ourselves.
To put you in the picture, the court asked the defendant to come up with three experts and then we could choose one of them and send an instruction. this was done and we sent our instructon to the court for approval but nothing was heard from the court for over 6 months. we then recieved a court order stating that a witness (that we had not chosen) had been apointed by the court! therefore acting in breach of their own previous court order!
Honestly i have never been in a situation like this before and i have totally lost faith in the coutny court system. even the judges dont read their own orders. its a joke. i would never go through this again.
Check the date on the posts, this was three years ago!I have lost several jobs to our friends in the EU. I just can't compete as I have insurances, qualifications and the correct tooling to do the jobs in the most health and safety way. A friend of mine in the trade, when I asked him about rates quoted, "You're an Electrician, you did your time that is what they should be paying for." How right he is. Now I noticed that you can buy self install consumer units in B&Q. What next. Of course the other gripe is the companies that are setting up as intermediaries, they get people to contact them and they send out more that four to bid for the job after having charged each a fee.
Check the date on the posts, this was three years ago!
Richard,
Where did you find you expert witness. just in case we have the opertunity to bring one in for ourselves. ...
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