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Cost of moving a consumer unit
I've received a quote from an electrician to move a consumer unit (a distance of less than a metre). He's quoted £335.00, including a contingency of £100 to extend or re-route one or two cables. Does this seem a reasonable sum? He suggests it will be about a day on-site; I can't see that any materials will be required beyond half a dozen screws and wall plugs, and a metre or so of cable. I'm not a cheapskate or anything by the way!
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Cost of moving a consumer unit
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Cost of moving a consumer unit
Thanks to respondents. You summaries of the situation seem fair enough to me. I'll go ahead with the job I think.
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Cost of moving a consumer unit
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wrote: I've received a quote from an electrician to move a consumer unit (a distance of less than a metre). He's quoted £335.00, including a contingency of £100 to extend or re-route one or two cables. Does this seem a reasonable sum? He suggests it will be about a day on-site; I can't see that any materials will be required beyond half a dozen screws and wall plugs, and a metre or so of cable. I'm not a cheapskate or anything by the way! Depends on many things. At worst, every single cable might need extending. At best, they'd only need shortening. And any combination in between - has he actually seen the job? It's much quicker to cut one down than extend it. -- *Red meat is not bad for you. Fuzzy green meat is bad for you. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
Cost of moving a consumer unit
On 27/11/2012 09:42, Bill Wright wrote:
wrote: I've received a quote from an electrician to move a consumer unit (a distance of less than a metre). He's quoted £335.00, including a contingency of £100 to extend or re-route one or two cables. Does this seem a reasonable sum? He suggests it will be about a day on-site; I can't see that any materials will be required beyond half a dozen screws and wall plugs, and a metre or so of cable. I'm not a cheapskate or anything by the way! Sounds reasonable to me. Because of overheads (vehicles, insurance, compulsory training, accountancy services, H & S, etc), we need to turn over £400 per man per day. Bill You need £400 per day, and I'm only prepared to spend £200, so the job doesn't get done. Soon you'll need £500 because you're only working 4 days a week. This about sums up a recession. |
Cost of moving a consumer unit
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Cost of moving a consumer unit
On 27/11/2012 09:54, Tim Watts wrote:
wrote: I've received a quote from an electrician to move a consumer unit (a distance of less than a metre). He's quoted £335.00, including a contingency of £100 to extend or re-route one or two cables. Does this seem a reasonable sum? He suggests it will be about a day on-site; I can't see that any materials will be required beyond half a dozen screws and wall plugs, and a metre or so of cable. I'm not a cheapskate or anything by the way! He will possibly have to at least perform a basic test on the circuits too as it's a CU move. He will definitely be required to verify bonding/earthing before he touches anything. Before you think that is overkill, a certain percentage of houses he touches will have hideous wiring problems hiding that *must* be rectified before certain other works are done. With the above in mind, I'd have thought this could be a dead straightforward and quick task OR a bit of a nightmare (or anywhere in between); which suggests to me that contingency ought to be a lot higher than £100, and that the actual cost might be a lot lower than what appears to be the minumum possible (£235) David |
Cost of moving a consumer unit
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Bill Wright wrote: Sounds reasonable to me. Because of overheads (vehicles, insurance, compulsory training, accountancy services, H & S, etc), we need to turn over £400 per man per day. Sounds like a good reason to find a one man business. ;-) -- *Why is it considered necessary to screw down the lid of a coffin? Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
Cost of moving a consumer unit
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:29:23 AM UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Depends on many things. At worst, every single cable might need extending.. At best, they'd only need shortening. And any combination in between - has he actually seen the job? It's much quicker to cut one down than extend it. |
Cost of moving a consumer unit
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , Bill Wright wrote: Sounds reasonable to me. Because of overheads (vehicles, insurance, compulsory training, accountancy services, H & S, etc), we need to turn over £400 per man per day. Sounds like a good reason to find a one man business. ;-) There's an irony here. Although one-man businesses are likely to be more efficient, what they don't have is a team of cheap workers. If I take on a job I most likely have to do it myself, because if it's a small job it isn't worth organising a low paid casual worker.If the job is a simple menial one this is not cost effective, because I'm obviously looking for the hourly rate that I would otherwise get on a more demanding job. Bill |
Cost of moving a consumer unit
Yes but one made worse by all the expenditure many businesses have to bear
that really could be a lot less with less red tape. Brian -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________ "stuart noble" wrote in message ... On 27/11/2012 09:42, Bill Wright wrote: wrote: I've received a quote from an electrician to move a consumer unit (a distance of less than a metre). He's quoted £335.00, including a contingency of £100 to extend or re-route one or two cables. Does this seem a reasonable sum? He suggests it will be about a day on-site; I can't see that any materials will be required beyond half a dozen screws and wall plugs, and a metre or so of cable. I'm not a cheapskate or anything by the way! Sounds reasonable to me. Because of overheads (vehicles, insurance, compulsory training, accountancy services, H & S, etc), we need to turn over £400 per man per day. Bill You need £400 per day, and I'm only prepared to spend £200, so the job doesn't get done. Soon you'll need £500 because you're only working 4 days a week. This about sums up a recession. |
Cost of moving a consumer unit
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Brian Gaff wrote: Yes but one made worse by all the expenditure many businesses have to bear that really could be a lot less with less red tape. That's one problem - it had to be changed to brown. -- *One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
Cost of moving a consumer unit
On 27/11/2012 14:48, Bill Wright wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Bill Wright wrote: Sounds reasonable to me. Because of overheads (vehicles, insurance, compulsory training, accountancy services, H & S, etc), we need to turn over £400 per man per day. Sounds like a good reason to find a one man business. ;-) There's an irony here. Although one-man businesses are likely to be more efficient, what they don't have is a team of cheap workers. If I take on a job I most likely have to do it myself, because if it's a small job it isn't worth organising a low paid casual worker.If the job is a simple menial one this is not cost effective, because I'm obviously looking for the hourly rate that I would otherwise get on a more demanding job. Bill As an electrician I guess it must be difficult finding a domestic job that isn't 75% dogsbody work |
Cost of moving a consumer unit
tony sayer wrote:
In article , scribeth thus Thanks to respondents. You summaries of the situation seem fair enough to me. I'll go ahead with the job I think. Also... Where are you?, I'd expect different pricing for sarrf of Watford to north of the M18/A1M junction... Thats sounds about darn sarff pricing... Adam W might prove me otherwise?... £300 would be about right for a CU swap when you have to do all the tests and need certs etc. All repairs and fault finding are extra to the £300 (as you know there are massive variations in such a job) However it seems that in this case a 16th edition regs CU is about to be highered or lowered by a metre or so and that the 17th edition regs with regarding RCD protecion are going to be slightly ignored:-) -- Adam |
Cost of moving a consumer unit
stuart noble wrote:
On 27/11/2012 14:48, Bill Wright wrote: Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Bill Wright wrote: Sounds reasonable to me. Because of overheads (vehicles, insurance, compulsory training, accountancy services, H & S, etc), we need to turn over £400 per man per day. Sounds like a good reason to find a one man business. ;-) There's an irony here. Although one-man businesses are likely to be more efficient, what they don't have is a team of cheap workers. If I take on a job I most likely have to do it myself, because if it's a small job it isn't worth organising a low paid casual worker.If the job is a simple menial one this is not cost effective, because I'm obviously looking for the hourly rate that I would otherwise get on a more demanding job. Bill As an electrician I guess it must be difficult finding a domestic job that isn't 75% dogsbody work Yes, well with us a lot of jobs comprise a vast amount of cable laying, which we try to foist on the electricians, and the actually electronic gubbins which we do. Obviously I'm not talking about domestic jobs. Bill |
Cost of moving a consumer unit
Bill Wright wrote:
stuart noble wrote: On 27/11/2012 14:48, Bill Wright wrote: Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Bill Wright wrote: Sounds reasonable to me. Because of overheads (vehicles, insurance, compulsory training, accountancy services, H & S, etc), we need to turn over £400 per man per day. Sounds like a good reason to find a one man business. ;-) There's an irony here. Although one-man businesses are likely to be more efficient, what they don't have is a team of cheap workers. If I take on a job I most likely have to do it myself, because if it's a small job it isn't worth organising a low paid casual worker.If the job is a simple menial one this is not cost effective, because I'm obviously looking for the hourly rate that I would otherwise get on a more demanding job. Bill As an electrician I guess it must be difficult finding a domestic job that isn't 75% dogsbody work Yes, well with us a lot of jobs comprise a vast amount of cable laying, which we try to foist on the electricians, And we still have some1st year apprentices to do that work for you:-) -- Adam |
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