Fair price for this job?

[Foodface]

Just finished a job for family this week (never working for family again!) and wondered what people thought would be a fair price for the following.

They had a load of building work done including an extension and interior design swollocks, the builder had a plumber they normally used but family took a dislike to him so they dumped it on me to:

Fit 5 designer radiators
Re-do and alter existing pipe runs
Treat the system with x400 then obviously x100 afterwards
With a boiler service thrown in.

The install and pipework took me two days to do, it was a full on nightmare with loads of elaborate pipework in confined spaces. Nothing went well for me on this one, previous plumber said he'd do the lot for £250.00 and it would take him not much more than half a day to do.

Now I've lost out a bit on jobs recently so not sure how to charge this one, would be great if I could get some honest opinions on labour only for the above amount of work.

Nice one.

Foodface.

 

[Whl4852]

going rate to subby/contract (CIS) by me is still going down and i know gsr engineers working for less than £100 a day. Private work is your choice of course.

as for family its a hard one really, ive been doing my mother bathroom recently a day here and there and its almost complete but ive put a few weeks work in and its done at a loss because its my mother and she deserves it. Other members of the family that i dont see unless they have a plumbing problem i dont return the phone call to if possible.

this year ive given for christmas a plumbing coupon to a select few members of the family that i would normally do work for next to nothing anyway, but this way im giving them 1 days labour for christmas. Its a present but also give the underline message that im happy to give a day to them but after that i want paying

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Good way of thinking, my mum helped me a lot in the beginning. Saying that my mum always tries to pay me, after all, business is business. Nice idea with the coupon, I like that

 

[AWheating]

i must state that without my signature its not valid before anybody prints one off for themselves LOL

 

[theanalyst]

i must state that without my signature its not valid before anybody prints one off for themselves LOL

Quite a cool idea, but does 1st and 2nd fixing a new bathroom count as 'one' plumbing job !!
I can imagine some people thinking they have just won the plumbing lottery with one of these!

 

[Whl4852]

i must state that without my signature its not valid before anybody prints one off for themselves LOL

Damn!

 

[AWheating]

Quite a cool idea, but does 1st and 2nd fixing a new bathroom count as 'one' plumbing job !!
I can imagine some people thinking they have just won the plumbing lottery with one of these!

max valve of £200 labour, depends on your labour rates

 

[WHPES]

There's a lot of stiff competition round here and £25 to £28 seems to be the going rate. Charge any more than that and I'd have no work to do.

Anyone says it's too expensive I don't haggle, just suggest they use a handyman to do the work and tell them it won't be a neat job.

 

[buckley plumb]

max valve of £200 labour, depends on your labour rates

half aday if your on the rate started at the start of thread lol