On 10/08/2019 09:29, Chris B wrote:
On 09/08/2019 19:31, ARW wrote:


Thanks for the info,Â* We have just been presented with a "surcharge"
bill of over £250 (+VAT) by the builder because his electrician
installed 3 LED downlights.Â* Surely a basic ceiling light must have been
included in the cost of a new bathroom installation (costing several
thousand pounds), and upgrading to 3 downlights (which we didn't ask
for) cannot cost this much.

Also £100 to provide the wiring and connect up a mirror which we
supplied and fitted.

Bear in mind that electrician had full access to the room before the
ceiling was put up and walls plasterboarded.

Although we have been presented with the building control approval cert
I am struggling to get a minor works cert for the electrics.

My gut feeling is that all of this is a bit unreasonable, but I am
trying to get a second opinion from those with more knowledge, before I
go in to battle.




OK so our firm would probably have charged £96 plus the cost of the
downlights for the job I described. And LED downlights cost less than
£10. So unless they had a much harder job to do or you are in an
expensive location the only things I can think of is they took a long
time to do a basic job[1], they charged travel time and they had to make
two trips not just the one I did.

I cannot say if £250 is too much. However I do agree that a basic light
and light switch should have been included in the original quote and
changing that to 3 spotlights for £250 is a lot of money unless there
are things we are not aware of.


Do the lights in the bathroom have RCD protection?

Any idea who the electrician was? If you know then you can find out
which scheme, if any, he is registered to.

[1] We sometimes do jobs that are paid by the hour and are not quoted
for. The builder wants only a select few of our electricians to do those
jobs.



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Adam