Hot Water Tank Installation Price

[JamesJ]

Hi, I need a new hot water tank and am wondering how much I should look to pay for one to be fitted?? So far one bloke told me £700+ and another said around £400!!!

Thanks in advance.

 

[Puddle]

All of you are assuming that the job is a cylinder change over, go back and read the OP's posting again, and see what he has said, would your prices be the same if it was for a HOT WATER TANK and it was an all iron job ??

Now assuming that it was an indirect copper hot water cylinder, with imperial sized tube, with the cold feed in 11/4", the gate valve was knackered and would not shut off, the CWST tank cAll of you are assuming that the job is a cylinder change over, go back and read the OP's posting again, and see what he has said, would your prices be the same if it was for a HOT WATER TANK and it was an all iron job ??

Now assuming that it was an indirect copper hot water cylinder, with imperial sized tube, with the cold feed in 11/4", the gate valve was knackered and would not shut off, the CWST tank conn had two lugs inside the connector so that you could not plug the feed off, but had to drain the CWST as well, just to throw a bit more "crap" into the works so to speak, the cylinder was full of lime scale, (needing an extra person to lift the cylinder out, and into the van) and the coil connections were opposite sides, instead of being on the same side, and also that the expansion tank had a connector with internal lugs and you had to do a partial drain down of the heating system as well

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Oh,how I miss the good old days 🙁🙂

maybe a bit of lead in there too

 

[Mushybees]

so you would do it for £170 all parts supplied, i have many a work for you bud?.😀

Lol, £170 labour with parts separate.
My point was it's a nice little job for one plumber. It's not a two man job so why half your earnings or expect the customer to pay extra?
There's only room for one in an airing cupboard 🙂

 

[radswilldo]

Some of you need to realise the job you are in and should sit down with a calculator. A fully qualified plumber in the south east should be charging a £30 PER hour rate minium. A gas engineer ANYWHERE in the country should be charging £30 minimum an hour. A plumber anywhere else should be £25. Im in the southeast, not counting the unexpexted(power tools giving up the ghost) nor A.C.S/course resits, £25000 labour is worth 13000 before tax. Unless your well established, which takes years, you are going to find it hard producing a living/retirement for yourself, let alone a family. Remember you have responsibillities and those of you that are gas, remember you have peoples lives in the balance, one mistake and your career, at best, could be finshed.
What do some of you call a day, I normally do 10-11 hour days on medium to big jobs. I dont know how you can do 7-8 a day when someone needs there hot water/heating on, the more hours you do the more you earn. For every 40 hours paid work I do, there is 15 -20 unpaid (successful/unsuccessful estimates, travelling etc)

 

[Mushybees]

Yeah I work roughly 9 hours a day unless a job runs on. I don't have set work times but I'm usually out by 8 and try and be home for 5 unless it's a big job and I'm close to finishing, in which case I'll work till done.
I work to provide for my family but it's all for nothing if I'm never home for them. There are times when the wife is in work and I have to look after the sprog so I try and tailor my work hours around that.