Unforeseen circumstances? What have you come up against...???

[i=p/u]

im honest enough,swear

 

[Amp David]

Hell yes! every job i do is over priced on the cable, just in case. So much in fact the van is pulling wheelies theres that much left over gear in the back:tounge_smile:

 

[sythai]

Always an estimate along with a set of T&C's..... but also add on bottom of estimate as a highlighted foot note and fully explained to the customer :

It is a requirement that all existing earth bonding arrangements, circuits and equipment to be worked upon need to comply with current regulations, and should any underlying faults be present, then these will need to be rectified as an extra at £XX/hour + any materials required.

Just doubley covers my ---, recently got stung on a job (posted details on here) where done my install on RCD protected circuit (rcd already in place) came to do my tests at the end and rcd knackered >400mS. Customer not happy to pay so had to sort it myself and put in a new one :cuss:

Had a different scenerio recently where it was a bit of an over sight on my behalf. :disguise:... after a lot of hyping them up, giving it the big one etc....managed to get customer to go for 16 x dimmable halers LED downlights (quality gear) quoted him £20 for a standard 3 gang dimmer (which was within the range required) but came to the grand switch on and whoops - cocked up ! Ended up having to spend about another £100 for 3 x leading edge dimmer grid switches and a push to make switch for the other end 2-way (had some fun trying to wire it all up also) My fault that one so came out of my profit, but will know better for next time:19:

 

[i=p/u]

the gypos be watching out for van doing wheelie in glossop for scrap cable

 

[Amp David]

You had one too many tonight or what? lol

 

[SirKit Breaker]

I always worked to quotes, never estimates. Overall it all worked out about right. Most i won on, a few i lost, and some broke even. And on rewires i usually had enough to play with to cover a couple of minor additions. That was a master stroke, the amount of recommendations and additional work i got by not charging extra for a socket here and there has more than paid for itself.

Cheers.............Howard