First gas job in 30 years :)

[Robert Tyrrell]

Finally got my GSR card etc and can now legally do gas work again after some 30 years, not that I was doing it illegally before.
First job was to fit a new cooker for a young girl and I've done all that, although the pre-pay meter did throw me for a few minutes, (Lots of things have changed since the last time I did any proper gas work, back then you had to put a fifty pence piece in the meter and turn the key thing. None of this pre-pay stuff in the '80s) until the memory bank started working and I remembered what I'd been told during the 'Training'.

Just wondering if I sold myself short though really. I work on my own in the wild borderlands between Warwickshire, Worcestershire, & Gloucestershire so I'm in a bit of a vacuum really and having only just re-started with the gas thought that a reasonable price for installing the new cooker would be £45. Outside of the big cities, is this a comparable price or have I got it all wrong?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

what does that include just connection to bayonet fitting and new hose and of course tt

 

[Robert Tyrrell]

what does that include just connection to bayonet fitting and new hose and of course tt

Remove old cooker to shed, unpack & install new cooker, level cooker, fit security chain, visual check, and the usual stuff like fp & tt etc.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Remove old cooker to shed, unpack & install new cooker, level cooker, fit security chain, visual check, and the usual stuff like fp & tt etc.

Your about right but don't be surprised if somone goes in at 30-35

 

[Neil K]

45 is cheap, but then again all my work is in London. I'd be looking at 80 for that. Who's supplying the hose? Regardless of all that, congratulations on passing your ACS, well done fella

 

[Robert Tyrrell]

Cheers for the answers guys. I don't think that there will be that much competition here (I know that there will be some) as I've been asked by dozens of people over the last year "When are you going to be able to do gas/service my boiler etc?" It appears that most around here are on contract to firms, or working on the sites etc.
As for passing my ACS, that was a doddle really, much easier than I'd been led to believe.
All the help I got from people on this forum helped a great deal as well, but the biggest help was from a member of this forum who helped me more than I'd expected to be helped: Deandive. Him and his business partner really helped me when I was really struggling. Many thanks Dean 🙂

 

[JWLPlumbing]

Congrats on passing your Gas pal!