Not a good start to the year...

[LlandrilloSpark]

Nice little job lined up for next week, 4 days doing remedials from an EICR I did xmas week, my quote was approx £1000, client says " I'm just waiting for the plumbers quote and if its not to much I will complete the purchase".........Plumbers quote = £9500...Job Blown... :censored:

 

[Octopus]

Nice little job lined up for next week, 4 days doing remedials from an EICR I did xmas week, my quote was approx £1000, client says " I'm just waiting for the plumbers quote and if its not to much I will complete the purchase".........Plumbers quote = £9500...Job Blown... :censored:

Is the plumber building an extension?

 

[markc123]

Plumbers quote on an EICR, comical.

And i hope you ment £950 llan, because if you're getting blown out when you're charging £8500 cheaper by a plumber theres something wrong

 

[GLENNSPARK]

yeah well never mind `im Llandrillo....
as soon as the plumber shows his incompetance (in electrical installs)...that phone will ring....lol..

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

In the words of the seller to me today ....."F*£*kin Plumber has cost me my sale, Ive already got F*£*kin Carpets in the new place, was he going to turn it into a F*£*kin Hotel!!!"

The buyer was a young Asian lady who is moving the entire family in.....

 

[GLENNSPARK]

your getting played here....their trying to pull your pants down...
funny that you came in at £1000....and the `plumber` came back with £950....yeah rite!!

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

plumber came back with £9.5 thousand Glenn £9.5K, big ones £9500!!

 

[bigbaddave]

In the words of the seller to me today ....."F*£*kin Plumber has cost me my sale, Ive already got F*£*kin Carpets in the new place, was he going to turn it into a F*£*kin Hotel!!!"

The buyer was a young Asian lady who is moving the entire family in.....

The whole family?? Many we talking about?

 

[markc123]

Ohh you were actually being serious llan on the £9.5k, woops - appologies for mocking...how and earth has that come about :S whats the plumber doing testing with a gold plated neon-screwdriver ?

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

The whole family?? Many we talking about?




About 14, but the house was 6 bed anyway, with 3 ensuits, one main bathroom, and a downstairs w/c, Three 7.5kw showers in place already, cant see where £9.5k comes into it unless there is a huge boiler going in and all showers on that?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

plumber came back with £9.5 thousand Glenn £9.5K, big ones £9500!!

sorry about that Llan...even so...it still smells dont it...

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

Hell of quote for plumbing, but that said, I dont know what he proposed to do, house was rewired and re plumbed in 1996!

Remember this CCU??...this was in there

 

[markc123]

I remember when you posted that, asif thats the same spot. The plumber will do sweet f.a about that, i'd love to see the actual final cert on his EICR.

Complete joke - we feel for you brother :love:

 

[Guest55]

i know i'm dim-witted on days ending in "y" but im struggling to understand this convoluted story.
what was the plumbers quote of £9k for ? i cant think why any plumbing work in a poxy domestic would run to nearly 10 large.
why did it effect the job you quoted for ?
and why was the house sale / purchase affected ?

i'm already losing the will to live...........
;-)

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

i know i'm dim-witted on days ending in "y" but im struggling to understand this convoluted story.
what was the plumbers quote of £9k for ? i cant think why any plumbing work in a poxy domestic would run to nearly 10 large.
why did it effect the job you quoted for ?
and why was the house sale / purchase affected ?

i'm already losing the will to live...........
;-)

plumbers £9.5k quote was for plumbing work in the house, house is 6bed, but asian lady moving 14 in, im guessing lots of work, I wouldnt know.

Didnt effect my job directly, my job fell through because the sale fell in, the plumbers quote was way to high for the asian family to complete the purchase of house

Hope that cleared it up Biff


FYI BIFF, recently rewired a 9 bed house, British Gas installed new boiler & RADS all round in the same place, Their quote was "£15.5K

 

[Guest55]

they obviously skipped the survey prior to making an offer so more fool them.

 

[Sparkyphill]

14 people in the one house !!! That will be nice and quiet for the neighbour, Oi the plumber didn't live next door did he LMAO

 

[saveloy]

Buyer obviously wasn't that keen on buying the house or they would have got another quote.

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

She was very very keen m8, from what I could tell, she had £5k set aside for remedial, she needed 10k but homeowner would not drop another 5K as he already had dropped 40k, I work for this lady on and off, that's why she doesn't get any spark quotes , can't speak for her plumber though m8

 

[saveloy]

Stalemate then. The joys of house buying/ selling. No-one wins.

 

[telectrix]

you know you're in the wrong trade when you quote £1000 for a load of electrical work and the plumber quotes £9500 to fit a tap washer and unblock a bog.

 

[bigbaddave]

Nice little job lined up for next week, 4 days doing remedials from an EICR I did xmas week, my quote was approx £1000, client says " I'm just waiting for the plumbers quote and if its not to much I will complete the purchase".........Plumbers quote = £9500...Job Blown... :censored:

Some peoples mentality.. Its all about cost these days. Doesn't matter that he is a plumber.. He is cheaper. Enough Said.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

you know you're in the wrong trade when you quote £1000 for a load of electrical work and the plumber quotes £9500 to fit a tap washer and unblock a bog.

£9500, that just gets him out of the van at a time to suit him, fitting tap washer and unblocking bog is on top.

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

Who is cheaper Dave?

 

[ian.settle1]

With charges like that what does the plumber drive round in, a chauffer driven Rolls-Royce?

 

[PEG]

Give the plumber a break,on these quick-in big-gaff jobs the sparky only has to bypass the meter,the plumber has all the hydroponics to sort out....

 

[bigbaddave]

Who is cheaper Dave?

Sorry I have not read this thread at all. Thought you had quoted £1000 and the plumber had quoted £950 for the same work..

I hang my head in shame... Sorry..

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

Lol no prob m8

 

[Knobhead]

Did you get paid for the EICR? If yes, what you moaning about or no then sue them.

Don't cry because of work that wasn't in the bag.

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

I'm off for a while,if anybody knows how to delete an entire profile can they let me know, good luck to the decent lads on here, shame about the some who are stuck in the past

 

[sjhall]

It took me a couple of reads to get the gist of the whole situation, and the help of Biff's question.
the way I see it, its not the plumbers fault, he like you is just pricing the work, the person wanting the work and probably guesstimating the costs before being shocked by real time prices is the culprit IMO