Gas Cert Work vs Installations?

[Bibbs118]

Why would I want to do 10 a day for £30 and make you money, when I can do 5 a day for £60 and be in the pub for 2.30?

 

[Mark K]

Hi wondered if I could ask a question about preferences as a registered plumber?

In the process of developing a product for registered plumbers which in a nutshell collates requests for gas safety certificates from our network of customers and estate agents and offers them registered plumbers who are part of our network.

We can provide 5 - 10 certs per plumber per day based on the volume we have and for this volume we normally pay between £30 - £40 per certificate so roughly averages out about £200 - £300 a day plus any work you get out of condemed boilers etc..

I'm a little concerned about reliability of people turning up at time arranged with the client so I just wanted to find out whether there is a preference for certs over installations? And whether this level of work is too much for a single person in a day?

Appreciate any help

So, to break it down....get in your car/van, drive to the job, find parking, get out tools, walk to the house door, introduce yourself, carry out the checks/service etc, complete a certificate, tidy up, say goodbye and get back to your car/van ready to get in to drive to the next job, for £30.00-£40.00?

 

[Harvest Fields]

As I have said before, there are plenty of engineers out there that will snap your hand off.

 

[shyguy2005]

£60 each Cert all day long for me. No less .

 

[DGT plumbing]

Cert alone £60. Cert and service £80. boiler and hob. other appliances extra £20. I used to do service and cert work for a local letting company in 2012/13. They paid £100 a ticket regardless of appliances. I didn't have to haggle for that price, it was what they offered me. Happy days. They sold there lettings division to another not so generous agent. Good while it lasted.

 

[999]

Intresting thread
With the responsibilty of gas engineers even £60 is a low price. Putting your name on a legal document, we all should be charging way more but then theres competition thats keeps the price too low in my eyes. I charge £60 as thats what everyone else is charging.

Watched a gardener come into my clients garden today, blow away the leaves and left after 10 minutes £40 and not legal document signed......

 

[Bibbs118]

I've been charging £50 for a cert with a hob, am to cheap, it's going up to £65 in the new year .

I bet the OP thought he was onto a winner offering £30, I hope the £1000s he claims he has spent doesn't disappear down the drain.

 

[billski]

£110 for cert and boiler service for up to 2 appliances, 1 not being a fire! £25 extra for a fire. Local letting agency are happy with that and pass me plenty of work so must be about right.

 

[Bibbs118]

London?

 

[Ric2013]

I used to rent my house out. Used to pay around £60 (plus VAT, if the RGI was VAT registered) for a certificate on the boiler and cooker, more if the boiler needed cleaning. Took around 30 minutes IIRC. That, I felt, was a fair price, though to be honest I never shopped around based on price anyway and this was years ago.

Now, as a plumber myself, I won't go out for less than £45 if it's local. Tried working for less but worked out that any less than that and I may as well get a full-time National Living Wage of £7.83 job. No van, no diesel, no insurance, no NI bill at the end of the year, no spending evenings quoting, and no need to worry about anything except remembering to take my lunch in, and money in my account every single Friday.

One customer did find someone 'cheaper' than me, he thinks, but I'm pretty sure the work the other guy did was dangerous and illegal, though I only saw a photo.

Generally, I get repeat custom and recommendations, so I must be doing something right.

As someone who has made significant investment in training, tools, and time, I expect to earn over the Living Wage of £9 an hour, counting all hours and after all expenses at the very least and I'm not even gas registered.

I have plenty of sympathy for those who refuse to cut corners and put others at risk by failing to do their jobs properly just so as to give people a cheap job. Tell your clients that if they want a cheaper Landlord's certificate, they may as well write it out themselves for all it would be worth, but you get the job done properly and it costs ---.