combi to combi £800 fitted

[johnnyplumb]

This advert has been in our local newspaper for a few weeks now It surely can't be done for these prices.

 

[woodsy]

Cheapest Vokera round here will cost you £600 with the vat, pipework & fittings generally even on a relativley straight swop would be minimum of £30 - £50. He is obviously one of the idiots who doesn't value his skill and wants to work for peanuts or a clever marketing ploy to get a foot in the door.

 

[johnnyplumb]

He'll end up wasting his own time as surely the punters are not that stupid to fall for this advert

 

[PlumbBobBob]

there will always be people who fall for these adverts

 

[quality]

All I can say if you can supply and Finnish the instal for that money I will give you a job

 

[johnnyplumb]

there will always be people who fall for these adverts

aye, i wonder who's the stupidest, the installer who's running the advert or the punters that are falling for it.

 

[kirkgas]

All I can say if you can supply and Finnish the instal for that money I will give you a job

there are tons of guys who can do a combi swap in 3-5 hrs so £300-400 for that kind of money is not too bad, wait till tam sees this thread he used to do boilers in half a shift, mind you that was in the 70's when he was fit

 

[tamz]

He'll end up wasting his own time as surely the punters are not that stupid to fall for this advert

There was a woman on last week who got a boiler service for cheap through a groupon ad. It ended up with a bill for £1300 to fix a leak!
That is some big footwork lol

 

[johnnyplumb]

there are tons of guys who can do a combi swap in 3-5 hrs so £300-400 for that kind of money is not too bad, wait till tam sees this thread he used to do boilers in half a shift, mind you that was in the 70's when he was fit

aye, i've seen the 3hr boiler swappers, most leave right mess.

 

[quality]

Yeh I agree but I am not into that in and out thing (age probably) I like to do my thing my way if it takes 1 or 2 or 3 hours then so be it
PS I am not sure if I am as strong as tamz as I used to drag the old boilers not lift them

 

[gaspastemania]

its easily done in 3-5 hours and the place is often left cleaner than when i first go in !
To be honest if your taking 8/9 hours to do a combi combi swap then you must spend half the day looking at the job rather than actually working !!

 

[kirkgas]

aye, i've seen the 3hr boiler swappers, most leave right mess.

ooohhh tam will bite you for this comment, i'm telling you there are tons of guys who can/could do it, and leave a top class job, depoends whats in and what goes in, its all about being organised, doing one thing on auto pilot, starting the next one with one hand and thinking about the thing after that, loads of guys in a 2 man team used to do a great one day install on an indirect system with a new cylinder and control pack, with F&E tank in the loft and quite often a new BBU

 

[tamz]

Can still do them in a day with a powerflush, gas upgrade, condensate, and wash the dishes!

Fit to drap!

On the other hand i'm doing a bbu to regular swap for an old couple atm so had to keep the heat on for them.
Yesterday hung the boiler and ran the pipes just ready to T in, new pump and S plan on and gas run halfway while the boy played at powerflushing and blethered to the old guy.
Cut the old one off today and swapped the pipes about, wired it up and got it running by about 3.
Take the old fire and boiler out tomorrow and brick up and plaster the fireplace.

Sometimes you just need to pace yourself :smile:

 

[johnnyplumb]

if your working on less than a £200 profit margin, you would need to be doing them in 3-5hrs better to charge more and spend longer at it.

 

[mak]

Anyone can be a "busy fool"

 

[Halesowen1]

Charge more and stay longer??
Better to get to the next job I say.