Landlord gas cert pricing?

[armyash]

Hi,

I understand some people don't like discussing money or giving away their prices so I understand if I don't get many replies. If you don't mind sharing, what do you charge for a Landlord gas safety cert?

I have had people say they need a few doing soon but not sure what to charge them.

A service of the main appliance then safety checks on anything else, I find it hard to price.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

£75-120 depending on what's to be done (standard appliances)

 

[Last Plumber]

I always charge for the time to do the job.
I don't have a set price.
There are many folk out there who do this for Peanuts. My view on that is they can keep it!
One chap I know was doing em for £25?

 

[armyash]

Thanks.

A company I used to work for would charge £75, mostly boiler a boiler and hob. Sometimes there would be a fire also.

 

[Chalked]

15 quid
It's only 10mins form filling

 

[Scott_D]

£65 boiler
£75 boiler and hob
But I don't do many

Some are easy some you get messed around with collecting keys etc.

 

[SavageW]

15 quid
It's only 10mins form filling

I’d under cut Chalked for 4 cans of super strength lager from me local offy

 

[Last Plumber]

I’d under cut Chalked for 4 cans of super strength lager from me local offy

Shop Local Super strength?
Or would it have to be branded

 

[SavageW]

I’m easy,when In Rome...

 

[Chalked]

Can only afford this stuff.

 

[heliotrope]

£20-25 seems to be about the going rate for this.

Any more would be a rip off.

Have heard of £15 certificates but these are usually done
on a drive past.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

£20-25 seems to be about the going rate for this.

Any more would be a rip off.

Have heard of £15 certificates but these are usually done
on a drive past.

Your joking right ?

 

[heliotrope]

Your joking right ?

No.

 

[woodsy]

£20-25 seems to be about the going rate for this.

Any more would be a rip off.

Have heard of £15 certificates but these are usually done
on a drive past.

Your having a laugh !!! You can spend £25 of time running round after keys . And we wonder why the industry is going to the dogs with people charging this .

 

[Ric2013]

How can you run a business when your minimum charge is so low?
I've worked out that my business needs to take in at least £250 plus materials, per week, to be worth running at all (and I don't have the same costs that an RGI would have). Do you really manage to get 10 or more callouts a week and without too much mileage?

 

[jtsplumbing]

This depends on what you are going to be doing, are you just doing the gas safety checks ? or are you servicing the appliances has well ? two different types of work CP12 doesn't include a service, that's where a lot of people come unstuck on costs, a CP12 can take a little as 30min, whereas if you are including the service it could take 2/3 hrs. depending what has to be done.

 

[Last Plumber]

No.

How can you do a LL Cert for £20-£25?
Even if there was just a fire.

You must Tightness test twice, remove fire, visual up chimney, smoke test flue, Check in loft and bedrooms etc, inspect the gas fire even if you are not servicing it, replace it, Gas pressure, Gas rate, spillage tests.

Not to mention any other appliances, time involved getting to the job and onto the next, form filling.


Just out of curiosity how long does all this take you if you don't mind me asking?
Like I said above, I know a chap who does this for the same price and he is hideously busy but makes no money.

 

[jtsplumbing]

How can you do a LL Cert for £20-£25?
Even if there was just a fire.

You must Tightness test twice, remove fire, visual up chimney, smoke test flue, Check in loft and bedrooms etc, inspect the gas fire even if you are not servicing it, replace it, Gas pressure, Gas rate, spillage tests.

Not to mention any other appliances, time involved getting to the job and onto the next, form filling.


Just out of curiosity how long does all this take you if you don't mind me asking?
Like I said above, I know a chap who does this for the same price and he is hideously busy but makes no money.

No but a lot do, even less, I think a lot of it is to do with new guys just starting out, and letting agents screwing the price down, newbies tend to jump on this with the promise of X amount of jobs, then after 6mths find they are running at a loss, ask for an increase then don't get any more work, always someone willing to jump in for even less money.

 

[Last Plumber]

No but a lot do, even less, I think a lot of it is to do with new guys just starting out, and letting agents screwing the price down, newbies tend to jump on this with the promise of X amount of jobs, then after 6mths find they are running at a loss, ask for an increase then don't get any more work, always someone willing to jump in for even less money.

Yes, I thought it must be something like that. I get estate agents ringing us every now and again with the patter. You will have heard it,

" Hey, I am calling from xyz estate agents, we have thousands of landlords properties on our books and we are looking for a gas installer to do all our work for us and guess what, you're it! YAY
We can put lots of work your way".

What they really mean to say is

"You go out and work hard all hours to fit in around us and the tenants, keep qualified and insured costing you a fortune, Stick £90 a week in a van to chase around all over creation, sign your name to all documents needed then we can point our fingers at you when there's a fatality, gas leak, fire etc, charge us a pittance so we can add on the other £75 that the job is actually worth and charge that to the Landlord who is completely clueless, wait three month's for your money so I can pay for my suit, tan, aftershave and Porsche !

My answer is always very similar but I cannot post it on open Forum.

Rant over!

 

[hammers4spanner]

I charge £50 but plenty round here charging £25

 

[king of pipes]

£45 for a landlords cert , £75 for a boiler service + materials . cheers kop

 

[mfgs]

£60+vat for boiler and hob/cooker. Any extra appliances are 30+vat on top.
A letting agent I do maintenance work for, have a guy that does their certs for £28 each. I enquired and offered £50+vat a cert because of the volume of work but laughed when they told me how much they currently pay. He clearly doesn't do them properly as I have At Risked a few only a couple weeks after they have passed.

 

[woodsy]

Followed too many of the £25 gang and the Tenant asks why you're taking the cover off the boiler, going in the loft, taking the fire out etc because nobodies ever done that and why are you going to be here more than ten minutes !!!

 

[Ric2013]

In the ten years I rented out my house, no RGI did a leak test more than once. Shocked to discover that they are supposed to be done twice (though doing them twice makes sense, presumably you're checking none of the gas taps have intermittent let-by?). And I always went by recommendation not price, and never paid less than £60 (non condensing heat-only boiler, and gas cooker).

 

[Harvest Fields]

There was a post in the GE mag a few months ago stating that even though it is best practice to there is no law that states a tightness test has to be carried out on a LGSC. It is engineer preference and whilst most Engineer do it as standard some engineers charge extra for this and unless asked it is not completed. I have to do it or I cannot sleep at night. But that’s just me!!

 

[Ric2013]

Ridiculous that they aren't part of the check. Even I can do a tightness test (not that I'm qualified, but I've done them under supervision). Not exactly complicated, or a long process. I suppose that's what you get for £25: a visual inspection - rather makes a mockery of the whole thing.

 

[Sid Viscous]

Per number of appliances to be checked.

(though doing them twice makes sense, presumably you're checking none of the gas taps have intermittent let-by?).

And yes, always TT twice! First as a benchmark & to see if it's safe to proceed, second to check after appliances have been disconnected & reconnected, as Last Plumber said - fires out etc etc

 

[jtsplumbing]

main problem is most of the prices have been axed & cut to the bone by Tight arsed Landlords & letting agents, would say the average in the Plymouth area is £45. or less, mainly due to it being a student area and the number of available gas engineers. (The city is over run with them.) We get the same crap every year being offered £12.to £14. For CP12 work per property regardless of how meny items your checking even if it is the tenants own appliance they still want it doing. Local council will even send one of their office bods around to watch what your doing & how long it takes.

 

[Sid Viscous]

Well this goes back to a previous thread about call-out charges. I don't have a call-out charge, I do have a minimum charge and it ain't £14 pal! As for that bloke from the council, unless you're working on council property it's nothing to do with them. Our city council have their own gas guys who look after their properties.

 

[Ric2013]

You need a minimum charge, unless you're going to start charging rip-off prices on parts, overselling things that aren't needed etc etc. Unless you can get sponsorship as a charity, that is.

So your minimum charge is less than £14? I'll bear you in mind

Here in Colchester, I'm pretty sure council sub-contracts gas checks to private companies.