Need Help Pricing Job

[Howsie]

Two weeks and £2k

 

[dontknowitall]

2wks/2k is what I was thinking too

 

[tamz]

Job needed to be done is as follows:
Average sized terraced house, ground and 1st floor needing work.
New 25mm poly main to be run to water meter out in the road 2hrs connected
New gas pipe run from front of house to the back of the house to the boiler. (possible gas hob intalled on a kitchen island) 2 hrs max
Re-fit existing Worcester combi boiler using plume kit, magna clean and scale reducer 6hrs max to hang and pipe main runs and hot and cold
Plumb in kitchen 1hr
Run kitchen waste to gulley 1hr
7 rads in total which I will be doing heat loss calculations for each room (pipes to come out from the wall) 30 mins per rad hung and piped

Bathroom consisting of
1 Towel rail
Bath with mixer tap and also shower valve in studed wall with outlet coming out from ceiling
Toilet
Basin 6 hrs but can be done quicker
Run stack from 1st floor level and terminate correctly 4hrs max

He will be looking to install a toilet and basin under the stairs once he gets the permission but he wants a seperate price for that. He has run a 4" watse under to floor ready to connect. 2 hrs max to rough it out

Could someone give me an indication of a fair price for labour only for the above?

3 days + allow another day for test and commission and flushing.
Since the place is empty and being renovated and boards etc are up the above timescales are highly realistic for doing in copper by anyone with half a clue. Plastic will be quicker.
Just because it can be done in 4 days doesn't mean you price it on that. The job won't be an in and out as you will get held up.
Price it on at least 10 days at whatever rate you charge.

 

[dontknowitall]

Great post Tamz - we're both agreed on 10 days but for very different reasons! No time for coffee with your timescale though!!

BUT - and I'm not trying to be patronising - purely stating a fact - HONEST!!! ...

It shows the difference between the knowledgeable, experienced plumber and the likes of me who, ultimately will do a neat job that's within regulations but will spend much more time trying to work out how to drill through a wall, sort out a wire that's in the way and so on.

 

[tamz]

You don't think about what you are doing when you are doing it. You have already thought about it an hour previous while you were doing something else.

I actually like cold coffee. I've been drinking it for 35 years :lol:

 

[bob the plumber]

when i said five days, they were 16 hours days with my tent pitched up in the back garden 🙂

 

[< 0.004 = :-)]

I'v have been lurking around this site for a while, getting little bits of info as I need it.

Quick intro:
Fully qualified plumber upto nvq level 3
Unvented hot water systems
Gas safe registered
Working for 6 years in plumbing and been at the same company for the last 5.

Started to do my own private jobs a while ago, but they have been small odd jobs here and there. And many of them to family and friends so prices I have charged have been very cheap or none at all.

Just been offered a job by someone who has seen my work elsewhere and really wants me to do his house for him. Since I dont ever see any of the quotes or the final invoices of any of the work I usualy do through the company, I am completely lost in the pricing up of jobs. I'm not sure on what is a fair price for jobs.

I have gone to see the job and its just a bare house with most floor boards up, walls ready for a bit of plaster.
Job is in London. The client will be digging up the front garden for me to re run a new poly main, and also will be digging out back for a gulley to be put in for his kitchen waste. He will be doing any building work that I need so I dont get held behind in any way. He is in the building trade so his help is there when needed. He will be paying for all the materials I need, I will have to go and pick them up, so the price I need to give him is for labour only.

Job needed to be done is as follows:
Average sized terraced house, ground and 1st floor needing work.
New 25mm poly main to be run to water meter out in the road
New gas pipe run from front of house to the back of the house to the boiler. (possible gas hob intalled on a kitchen island)
Re-fit existing Worcester combi boiler using plume kit, magna clean and scale reducer
Plumb in kitchen
Run kitchen waste to gulley
7 rads in total which I will be doing heat loss calculations for each room (pipes to come out from the wall)

Bathroom consisting of
1 Towel rail
Bath with mixer tap and also shower valve in studed wall with outlet coming out from ceiling
Toilet
Basin
Run stack from 1st floor level and terminate correctly

He will be looking to install a toilet and basin under the stairs once he gets the permission but he wants a seperate price for that. He has run a 4" watse under to floor ready to connect.

Could someone give me an indication of a fair price for labour only for the above?

if he really wants you to do it, charge him accordingly, he ll be willing to pay the going rate.
not sure about London, but up here firms need to charge +£25.00 hr to make a profit and cover costs of employment(wages,NI,holiday,sickies) van,diesel, plant, h+s, insurance,training......, and even then they aren t making fortunes.
even as a one man band 25/ hr, after tax , holidays and expenses aint that great when you add in the extra unpaid hours
100-150 ,12.50 - 18.75 / hr not bad wages for downing the tools at 4 with no hassles but a bit cheap for self employed imho.
sounds like not a bad homer for santa coming but i wouldn t be rapping a decent job on the books at this time of year for it mate. you doing it nights and weekends ? working for a firm you d be on time n a half or double time with no overheads anyway .

 

[Ari87]

Thanks for all the input people.

The firm I work for at the moment is on and off work. Things get quiet usually around this time of year since we only do installs. So this job would be a good little plus to all my time off from work. At the moment I will be doing it normal working hours/days untill I get called back from the company. Then it will be weekend work.