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"Rob Convery" wrote:


So £50 per socket is a reasonable price. No wonder people are so ****ed at
PartP

You have to make a living, don't you? There can be *some* economy of
scale, but adding sockets isn't usually a case of just tacking a spur on
the back of an existing socket, clipping it 3ft across the wall and
screwing on another socket.

Lifting floorboards was mentioned, as was replacing a CU. This all takes
time, and can take a *lot* of time. While the parts cost may only be a
few tens of pounds (fully populated Volex CU from Screwfix now under
£60), if it's going to take three or four hours to fit, and then another
couple of hours to test it all adds up.

My wife is a teacher with an in-demand specialism so she gets a couple
of "points" on top of normal pay spine. This makes her daily (supply)
rate up to something like £180 before tax. For a 6 hour working day (she
can often be longer) this is £30 per hour. I'd reckon this as a
reasonable rate for a teacher with 15 years experience in the classroom,
several difficut-to-obtain additional qualifications and a particular
skill-set that is so rare that jobs in that area often have to be
advertised more than once.

IMO it's also a reasonable rate for a knowledgeable, self-certifying
electrician with all the right test gear and tools. Note how there's no
little additional bit on the bottom of the bill for insurances, test
gear depreciation, contribution towards calibration costs, costs of
running a business bank account, limited company, training, travel
to-and-from site and so on and so forth.

So at £50 per socket you're probably looking at an estimate of 90
minutes work (£45) per socket plus cost of parts. By my reckoning that's
pretty good going. Certainly doesn't allow time for standing around with
cups of tea chatting to the client ;-)

Hwyl!

M.

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