Blocked toilet

[tomplumb83]

Which is why you have to make every job you do count isn`t it? Why somebody should pay £240 when you said £40 is beyond me if they are tight with money.

Maybe there is a high concentration of people with dyscalculia in his area?

 

[Phil]

What van do you rock up in Rocket?

If you turn up in a van as if you are cutting the hedges you wont command the price a plumber will charge if you know what I mean.
If customers think you are an odd job handyman, they expect to pay you less than a plumber.

 

[rocketmanbkk]

I've got a white connect with plumbing & property maintenance on it.

The signs looking a bit old so just got a new design. Plumbing & maintenance

Just a bit more modern.

I'd like a newer bigger van but next year or year after I think.

Things are going ok. Can't complain too much.

Really need to do the NVQ 2 - booked in to do H&S test for cscs card so I might try & get on site for NVQ evidence etc.

All good. Just slowly does it.

 

[newcastle phill]

Perhaps in future just state its £45 regardless whether its 10 minutes or an hour

 

[rocketmanbkk]

The chap new the cost of the 1st hour £45.

He repeated my costs back to me.

Just because it was easy it raised his eyebrows

I told him before I went it could be 2 mins, 2 hours or it might need jetting

I prepared him incase it was bad.

I'm sure he won't call me again but then again he might as I was nice to him & I even took my boots off!

 

[newcastle phill]

Yeh i hear ya, sadly they hear hour and think it's pro rata.
Needs spelling out with 5 mins or an hour imho

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Yep, I'll make sure future custards know exactly

Everyone wants s deal, I'm the worst!

 

[jonnyswamp]

I think your charge of £45 was extremely reasonable, especially as it was a Sat morn call out
You were prepared to be elbows deep in shyte if needed, as it was a plunge sorted it
If you get the same response in future, ask them how much would it take for them to cover themselves in shyte to earn a living
It's what I have said in the past and it works

 

[WaterTight]

You seem to have way more than your fair share of people who hire you with the intention of trying it on with the price.

So you either live on Scaghead and Wasters Estate or you're doing something wrong.

Doesn't sound like it's what you say, what you drive or what you do.

It's a mystery.

Sounds like I do similar work to you (although i avoid blocked bogs) and I rarely mention price in advance, rock up in a 14 year old van that's not been washed since I've owned it, wearing trousers that often look like they belong to a painter and I 99% of people accept the price I give them first punt. And I aint cheap.

The only thing I can think of is maybe you've got a hint of a lack of confidence about you or something? Although why that would bring out the inner blagger in people I dont know.

 

[rocketmanbkk]

I don't think so!

I'll stop posting what I do from now.

I ain't no mug or pushover

Too nice maybe