"BigWallop" wrote in message ...

Woman over the road literally had a ceiling fall on her head after a plumber
forgot to connect a fitting in the bathroom. He did buy her a bunch of
flowers though.

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This is why we need regulation of the trades. If a certain job takes a certain amount of
time and money, then the trades would have to knuckle down to a set amount of pay for that
type of work. Many trades are held back by local situations. Rents and rates on
workshops vary widely across the country, vehicle up keep and other transport situations
also vary as you move from region to region. So you have to allow for a certain overhead
structure on the pricing of things as well.


then the trades would have to knuckle down to a set amount of pay for that
type of work.

this is both impossible and undesirable, since each job varies from
the next in many details. Not just parts and work, but also things
like access and other issues. Building work is full of issues.

Setting charge per hour also does not work, since
a) the worker will then have an incentive to work as slow as possible
b) it takes no account of the quality of each individuals work
c) it is wrongly anti-competitive.


Regards, NT