Contracting?

[MGP]

Recently started a new contract through British gas for the local council, 3 weeks in and today they announce they don't have the budget to fulfill the contract in its entirety, so the deal is to stop all full heating installs, and only do boiler swap outs and flue changes, the money is totally rubbish anyway and to make a living on this we have to now do 3 boiler changes (not straight swaps in most cases) and 4 flue changes in 1 day!
The reason for all the flue swaps is the council are putting up 60mm cladding on all the houses. How can a budget cripple 3 weeks into the financial year? I'd normally expect this kind of news oct/nov time

 

[SimonJohns]

You cannot achieve what you want to do in a day. Not as one man

 

[mountainman]

If the money is rubbish then don't do the work.
It's guys that are happy to work for nowt that is destroying the market for everyone else.

 

[Rickster123]

I don't think this is achievable for one guy to do safely in one day IMHO.

 

[scotty plumber]

That is a lot of work for one day

 

[MGP]

There's me and 2 others (ones an apprentice and I'm a plumber, not gas safe, my mate is) we've been used to doing 1 big heating system a day (usually finish 5.30 pm ish) but it just seems like these big company's are taking the pi55 now! I've even thought of jacking in and getting into pipe fitting, at least it's a regular job, I'll just take my own plumbing work on at weekends when I choose!

 

[AMBS]

testicles to that. I'd give them the finger and get some other work pronto.

 

[kirkgas]

Recently started a new contract through British gas for the local council, 3 weeks in and today they announce they don't have the budget to fulfill the contract in its entirety, so the deal is to stop all full heating installs, and only do boiler swap outs and flue changes, the money is totally rubbish anyway and to make a living on this we have to now do 3 boiler changes (not straight swaps in most cases) and 4 flue changes in 1 day!
The reason for all the flue swaps is the council are putting up 60mm cladding on all the houses. How can a budget cripple 3 weeks into the financial year? I'd normally expect this kind of news oct/nov time

as there is only one gas in the team this will be impossible to achieve, your only option is to walk away and let the gas guy do one boiler and or 1 flue if thats possible, you cannot get involved in doing boilers, a nightmare TBH but there is only one option, and you know what it is

 

[jtsplumbing]

Just as a matter of intrest what were they paying for the above work ?? Full install - Boiler change - Flue, If rates that bad Id'e give it up to