Barn conversion pricing. I'm baffled

[Engineer54]

Pricing always amazes and often annoys me. My brother runs a letting agency and I have never had any work via him because 'I can get it done cheaper elsewhere' and his clients will only pay the absolute minimum amount they can get away with. Apparently the going rate for fully qualified spark is about £60 a day!!! Just not going there

They must be those disillusioned 50K a year 17 day DI whizz kids, trying to recoup their training fee's!! After all they did spend all that money for their training/qualifications, and they are registered with NICEIC or whoever, so they Must be ''fully qualified'' sparks!! lol!!

 

[scammell man]

That's about the size of it. Strangely when they cock it up I no longer provide advice over the phone on how it should be done

 

[Guest569]

I priced 9 rewires last year and got 2 of them lol

Priced 2 already today , first one has had a quote for 1.1k..........Can I match it ? No thanks.

 

[MDJ]

Priced 2 already today , first one has had a quote for 1.1k..........Can I match it ? No thanks.

Fair play, stick to your guns, what was it anyhow, a 1 bed room in a hostel somewhere lol

 

[Octopus]

Priced 2 already today , first one has had a quote for 1.1k..........Can I match it ? No thanks.

Is that for the garage/utility room? lol.

Madness

 

[sparky6078]

I had one a few years ago that went with the other quote, two weeks later see was on the phone can you come and finish off as he has walked out! so told her the price had gone up as cable was now more expensive and i would have to rip out what he had already done as i wasn't signing his work off! I ended up doing the job but only after i made her pay half up front..........

 

[amptramp]

Hi your quote seems ok if a little on the low side ,stick to your guns and don't reduce the price ,anybody can work for nothing and nobody wants to be a busy fool . I tend to look upon these kind of people as ( D.I.Y ) ie DO NO INVOVE YOURSELF .
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[Guest569]

Fair play, stick to your guns, what was it anyhow, a 1 bed room in a hostel somewhere lol

Its is probably thee easiest rewire Ive priced,1 bed, all pull through no alterations to positions etc. Ive just agreed to do it at £1400. Very cheap but Ill do it in a day...hate going down that low but I will do it from time to time if I know its a quick, easy earner ! Plus If I don't do it someone else will! Won a few more well priced ones so it all balances out.

 

[sarusystems]

Your quote looks reasonable to me. some times when I price a job low to get the work (in quieter times) I am surprised when some one offers it cheaper , you only need a flat Tyre and lose a pair of side cutters and your working for free.

 

[gutterball]

It's the ones that agree a price then add lots of extras and then complain about you charging extra.

 

[Slowhand]

Pricing always amazes and often annoys me. My brother runs a letting agency and I have never had any work via him because 'I can get it done cheaper elsewhere' and his clients will only pay the absolute minimum amount they can get away with. Apparently the going rate for fully qualified spark is about £60 a day!!! Just not going there

I'm looking for work and was offered job with a well established local firm. No probs with my quals and experience. I'd be given a van and sent out on jobs to work on my own initiative. Got my own tools etc etc.. Going rate £80 per day. It might seem ungrateful of me but l declined the offer.

 

[SparkyJoe]

She's wants them changed to 4.5 kW LEDs once the entire job is finished. That was not in my price lol

They must give off some light.

 

[Octopus]

They must give off some light.

And the start up currents will be monumental!

 

[R G]

I priced up a very large barn conversion and it took time to do , and they also wanted this that and the other , the job just mounted up and eventually came in at over £15K , never heard back from them , some mates of mine (Chipys) where working there and they got another sparks to do the job apparently for £10K , he was still working there 7 months later and still in first fix stage , when I spoke to my mates , he made a complete mess of it , I was Defo pleased I didn't get the job , because my mates also told me they were changing their mind every other day about spec etc , and they have had enough, so think again about pricing such a job,,