CP12 Certs and Price Work.

[richard978]

There seems to be an awful lot of people doing work from cars around here at the moment, never a good sign. I was at tenants house last week and some guy was there to fit a cooker from a second hand shop. He literally just plugged it in and buggered off. No manual left, no tightness test, no working pressure etc etc.....I just unplugged it, removed the bayonet fitting and capped the backplate and issued a warning notice.

so much for gas safety

 

[Scott_D]

Would you travel to London?
@Matchless.plumb might need a GSE

 

[firemant]

There seems to be an awful lot of people doing work from cars around here at the moment, never a good sign. I was at tenants house last week and some guy was there to fit a cooker from a second hand shop. He literally just plugged it in and buggered off. No manual left, no tightness test, no working pressure etc etc...I just unplugged it, removed the bayonet fitting and capped the backplate and issued a warning notice.

so much for gas safety

Why did you disconnect? Apart from not doing the job to the book, was anything actually wrong with it?

 

[Old Account]

Would you travel to London?
@Matchless.plumb might need a GSE

Haha thanks dude

Just had a bad experience and trust me one day everyone will experience some sort a bad choice. However, I learned from it and next will be different

 

[Savva]

I'm looking at taking a job doing landlord certs, I've never done a high volume service contract and always charged about £40.00 and I tend to spend an hour doing it.

Now the company is offering £14.30 per CP12 and I'm just wondering how many I can do to see if its worth my while taking it on. Apparently all the work is in close proximity but I'm still not convinced I will get more than 8 done.

They provide the van and fuel and most houses it will be a boiler and a cooker. I suppose the problem starts when I get an FBU or a gas fire as I tend to find these do take some time.

Where abouts are you? If you're anywhere near S.London I can give you 20 GSR's to do ASAP at £45 a pop. Let me know.

 

[rikpal]

Contracting on social housing, ranges from 19.00 to £25 per property. Usually get bit more if there more fires on the patch. Most social housing tends to be boiler only and tenents own cooker so visual check only. That's supplying your own van and tools. It works out better than using there van.
Realistically 8to 10 a day is possible without killing yourself, it all depends on access rates.

 

[gingalig]

Depending on where you are you can join up to Local Heroes they allocate work on a rotation basis and it pays fairly well. No obligation to take on the jobs and can be good for filling holes in your workload. You’ll need insurance etc but you need that anyway.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Depending on where you are you can join up to Local Heroes they allocate work on a rotation basis and it pays fairly well. No obligation to take on the jobs and can be good for filling holes in your workload. You’ll need insurance etc but you need that anyway.

isnt pay rubbish as its bg subbing?

 

[gingalig]

isnt pay rubbish as its bg subbing?

I think it would depend on where you are, I’m rural so it’s a fair bit of LPG and oil, but it’s not that bad looking at some of the prices on here. £70-90 for a service plus parts I spec a max of 45 mins radius, Some really silly little jobs that others don’t want but a good few breakdowns as well. They offer a guide price and take 20% which i generally meet halfway with my quote, the customer accepts your quote when you’re on site you request payment on completion 14 days later you get paid, all pretty quick and easy, I can see that long term it could end up being a be a race to the bottom, but out here this winter BG can’t seem to cope with the workload, customers are phoning Local Heroes direct and they are passing on the jobs. As mentioned you’re not obligated to take on the work, I’m sounding a bit like a sales rep for local heroes but it’s working ok for me at the moment and fills in the holes in my workload.