any boiler serviced for £29.99

[johnnyplumb]

this advert is in our local paper

any boiler service for £29.99 + vat
times are hard, as we all know, but he must be desperate.

it's people like this, that are driving prices down imo

 

[GQuigley67]

for a limited time only....better than going to groupon i guess

 

[nysk2008]

jeez thats cheap. but then again in my opinion we can all do cheap installs but it will look like cr**

 

[tamz]

I saw one the other day 730 + vat for a regular - combi swap. Absolute madness

 

[SimonG]

Start booking them in at 45 + vat and then sub it to him in to do for 30 + vat. 15 + vat for a bit of organisation

 

[jtsplumbing]

He can come and do mine for that price, just another get your foot in the door con, then find lots of things wrong with boiler !

 

[dave1]

How does £30 plus vat work out, time driving, diesel, labour, they going to actually strip and service a boiler for that?

 

[stevetheplumber]

How does £30 plus vat work out, time driving, diesel, labour, they going to actually strip and service a boiler for that?

no theyll turn up and stick a fga in it or do bp and gas rate

 

[johnnyplumb]

i know that advert costs £150, so he's not gonna make any money from £30 services, not directly anyway.
if he picks up a few boiler changes though, maybe by I.D ing a few boilers while servicing, then some money can be made.

 

[Syty]

they must cut corners.

I know one place where Engineer does 4 flats: 4 landlord certs with cookers and boilers plus 4 boiler services (8 years old ones) and he does it all in less than 3 hours.

 

[ambrosia]

notice he said any boiler, do a proper service on a new vaillant or worcester and youre meant to replace the gaskets, thats a £10 alone

 

[mfgs]

You only need to strip a worcester if the fan pressure it wrong though, which is very rare.

 

[Backboiler]

Ring him and tell him you are a letting agent who noticed his ad in the paper. Tell him you have 152 properties of which 148 of them have BBU's and fires. You realise these are difficult appliances to service but you are looking for a small discount for doing the lot!!

 

[Dannypipe]

He'd probably bite you arm off. He's clearly gonna cut corners, so why wouldn't he on a BBU!

 

[Halesowen1]

If he gets 30 or 40 of these booked in each week after a bit of advertising then great for him, £1200 a week and a bad job is it??
Nobody should ever be on a servoce for longer than 30 mins and thats very generous, otherwise you are charging to much and are trying to justify the fee.