pricing up for little job

[supper plumb]

And it is a small job too!!
Iv been asked to fit a ISO on a electric power shower the 15mm pipe runs up too the loft on too the header tanks???
how do you go about pricing somthing so small?

the part is £2+??????labour=????I DONT KNOW

my plans are to just turn off mains and cut pipe in loft fit ISO with PTFE and paste clean up water back on check iso and sod off..

 

[secret squirrel]

Minimum charge £45 plus parts, can you turn the water off?

 

[supper plumb]

yer water can be turned off i thing erm didnt look

 

[secret squirrel]

It can be the little jobs that can cause the most grief, I always have a minimum charge, you still have to get to the job use your van, pli, road tax, diesel, van insurance list goes on,

Not in it for the fun of it.

 

[supper plumb]

thanks buddy ill wright it up

 

[Keefy]

SS is right, don't be afraid to charge decent money even if it is an 'easy job', if they don't like it and expected you to do it for a tenner or something daft then what have you lost - a tenner or so? What have you gained? Self respect.

 

[glenno1]

I agree £45 minimum,but dont know why you use to many materials(paste & ptfe)

 

[Keefy]

my plans are to just turn off mains and cut pipe in loft fit ISO with PTFE and paste clean up water back on check iso and sod off..

Forget the PTFE, if compression fittings needed PTFE they'd come with a roll.

 

[plumber0808]

Jet blue everything.

i can't believe fitting a iso valve has started a thread.

 

[on31ll]

You not seen the mass-debates in the past ? Ptfe vs paste vs nothing ! They go on for days !

 

[on31ll]

Re reading this is pipe comes from header tank then its not so simple as just turning off cold mains is it ?

 

[lame plumber]

doh. why did u tell him, I was waiting for the how do i get out the attic to get an end cap thread done on his I phone

 

[dean.diy]

It can be the little jobs that can cause the most grief, I always have a minimum charge, you still have to get to the job use your van, pli, road tax, diesel, van insurance list goes on,

Not in it for the fun of it.

agree with that.

 

[markfxy]

Just give him an estimate 45 plus parts that's only for the first hour, might take half hour to get to the stopcock and there's no guarantee it'll turn of or you might snap the spindle there's no end of things that could and probably will go wrong

 

[tamz]

Tell him to go put the kettle on then whack it in live. Walk downstairs drink your coffee and collect yer cash.

No mess i hope :lol: