Yesterday I noticed the ariel on the roof had come away from the chimney and was lay flat on the roof tiles,I phoned the landlord and today a ariel enginner came out
ladders off the van bish bash bosh ladders back on the van total time 9 minutes
yes 9 minutes charged £45
I need to change jobs

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I've seen loads round here like that. Amazing to see how many are bolted on with 4 bolts onto the chimney - shocking. Should have lashing kits round the top!

BG

What a conman

He's got his own van, ladders etc which costs a fair bit each year in tax, insurance, maintenance, depreciation and capital outlay.

He gets the call travels to you does the job travels home, invoices and he has the cheek to charge £45

You should've kicked his ladders away

Not having a pop at you but when people use solicitors which charge upwards of £300 per hour and just pay up but begrudge a working bloke his money it does get on my danglers.

How much of that £45 did he get to keep I wonder?

I'm sure most of the tradespeople on here have done it the other way as well and ended up working for peanuts as the result of pricing a job wrongly

It doesn't matter what goes in the hand - takings isn't profit!

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Cannyfixit, £45 Bargain.
I must agree with Razor, theres a lot of unseen expenses thats taken for granted.
Look what happened to Rod Hull when he tried refixing his ariel

His own stupid fault for taking the Emu with him...

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I Know it says I'm On-line, but I might have just left myself logged in, whilst I'm out....

slow down chaps i wasnt havin a pop,I fully understand overheads etc,I was just erm well i dont know what ..........
still would like to earn £180 ph should cover a bit of deisel and a pie dinner

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mmm pie.

....and if your jobs are spread out across an area, or through the day, and you get timewasters who aren't in when they said they would be, or if most of your jobs require a trip to the merchants and then a second visit to site, so that you can only actually box off one every 2 or 3 hours on average?

Less than £20 quid an hour with overheads still to come off the top doesn't amount to a whole hill of beans.