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3 CUs and tests per day at £48 a pop. Someone is having a laugh, this will end in tears as no spark that I know could do a proper job for those rates
 
No problem. Just put " 48 pounds worth of testing carried out " in Limitations on cert. Job done...or not. :)

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My client is looking for a 17th Edition electrician work in domestic properties in South Ockendon to do Fuse Board changes Fuse Board and Test is paid at £48.00, You will be completing between 2 - 3 jobs per day.

I bet he frigging is!

<Shakes head and wanders off in disbelief...>
 
bet the poles and romanians will be queuing up for it.
 
I was in a certain big orange shed today, and they were promoting CU installation "from £499", excluding all remdial work (talking with one of the staff, can easily total £900), by their "approved tradesmen". It seems there are two different worlds out there in terms of prices, one ten times the other ...
 
Doing the sums.....
I suspect their sales 'executives' have picked up the JIB rates at £12.00/hour.
A fast worker can rip out and install a new CU in 2 hours plus a basic IR test.
But why rip out something that works already and replace it with something that might not?

How much are they paying these sales 'executives'?
 
Had a customer last year proudly showed me the new CU he'd had fitted after that nice man from MEB came round and did a FREE inspection. Reckoned it was £1200 well spent ..... till I told him how much I'd have charged.

PJ
 
Had a customer last year proudly showed me the new CU he'd had fitted after that nice man from MEB came round and did a FREE inspection. Reckoned it was £1200 well spent ..... till I told him how much I'd have charged.

PJ

£48???
 
No problem. Just put " 48 pounds worth of testing carried out " in Limitations on cert. Job done...or not. :)

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yeah and leave the rest of the page blank, turn up write this down on paperwork and leave,although call out charge is usually 50 quid not 48.
 
I've an idea.
I'm a unscrupulous entrepreneur, with no electrical knowledge whatsoever, but can sell anything to anybody.
I'll take advantage of all the desperate unemployed electricians out there and pay them £50/day while I charge the customer £250. Happy Days!
Damn, it's already being done. :-(
 
Had a customer last year proudly showed me the new CU he'd had fitted after that nice man from MEB came round and did a FREE inspection. Reckoned it was £1200 well spent ..... till I told him how much I'd have charged.

PJ

You have to feel sorry for these people. They genuinely think that they are being looked after.....
 

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