going rate

[pauls]

what do you think the average going rate is for changing a set of kitchen taps,basin taps and bath taps is.

customer thinks its just a case of take of old ones and replace but we all know sometimes its never that easy.

 

[dontknowitall]

Half a day's work?

 

[Bernie2]

It could be six months in clink, you are supposed to declare foreigners for tax!

I think it comes under tax evasion which is a crime, tax avoidance isn't.

But they seem the same.

 

[quality]

Whats wrong with robbing the tax man

hes been robbing me for 20 years

 

[Aquarius]

Could be an hour could be a day you never can tell.

 

[Winston]

How very true but customers dont want to hear that

 

[jpm]

what do you think the average going rate is for changing a set of kitchen taps,basin taps and bath taps is.

customer thinks its just a case of take of old ones and replace but we all know sometimes its never that easy.

£15 a tap,£20 for a sink mixer don't forget a new overflow on bath as these are often so brittle they break,so you change that anyhow.

 

[so-solar]

£100 of anybodys money! Taps are not as straight forward as every body assumes! how old are the existing taps?

 

[pauls]

£100 of anybodys money! Taps are not as straight forward as every body assumes! how old are the existing taps?

dont know how old taps are only spoke over the phone i said £90 and i could tell in her voice she thought that was too much. someone who wants it for nothing i think.

i think she was expecting somthing in the region of 40 quid shes got no chance lol

 

[Puddle]

maybe she was hopeing you might be running a tap scrapage scheme

 

[pauls]

lol shes a tryer

 

[wombat]

if you have not seen the job to see how staight forward it is, the agree on an hourly rate, this way the customer knows the costs upfront, and if it turns into a little bit of a dog show you are still getting paid for the extra time. as far as the hourly rate, well thats you call as to what you willing to work for.

 

[so-solar]

£40? Is that a joke? personally i would want £40 a tap as i have had some absolute nightmares in the past with taps!

 

[Bernie2]

The thing is! For every nightmare tap you have, how many easy ones do you get? Make a rate between a hard job and an easy one, then give your customer a rebate if its easy.

Just think about how and what reasonable price you would like to be charged for a job and what you think is fair.

 

[Renewable M]

charge by the hour, with a minimum £75. you are covered and so are they,.

 

[WHPES]

I always tell the customer it depends on what's there already, say it can range from £15 per tap up to about £25 per tap, depending on how easy the old taps are to get out, how fiddly it is, and whether the hot and cold water can be isolated easily (often have to replace DHW feed valve before doing the taps).

 

[Renewable M]

....and if you dont have your disclaimer in place, you end up 'paying' for the fifty year old broken sink.

Same as a large customer, have tour terms on the back of you invoice. "not responsible for pre existing installation, or weaknesses thereof, or damage arising from attempting to upgrade aforementioned existing garbage........"

 

[WHPES]

I have a number of old basins in my shed which I can offer customers for a small charge should a basin get damaged by removing old taps stuck in with putty. It's happened twice and they never bothered about paying £20 for a replacement basin.

 

[Bernie2]

I have to be honest I have at times been a day or two changing a set of taps. If you get a very old washbasin with matching ped and the customer is set on keeping it.

The china may be crazed and the taps set in plaster. The only way then is to cut them out with a junior blade, without marking the washbasin.

Time consuming and tough with the old pillar taps that had pillars on.

For newbies.

In the old days tap holes where square not round. The square on the bottom of the tap was sometimes known as the pillar, to stop them moving about.

All well and good but try cutting through one with a junior hacksaw blade, you can't use it in the frame as it may scrape the wash basin and the back nut won't move to allow you to pull the tap up.

Tough job regarding time. So best look at the taps before you price and also tell them you can't guarantee any none breakages.

 

[bobpape]

Dust sheet everything then
use an angle grinder with a cut off disc close to the basin surface then carefully Dremel
whats left.. takes about 10 minutes a tap...

 

[so-solar]

^^^^^^^ 1 brave man ^^^^^^^

 

[bobpape]

Your joking
I can file my finger nails with a grinder

 

[jberry]

get your days pay out of it, 90 quid seems good if thats about the going rate for plumbers in your area, go and have a look at the job first before you commit to a price though, you could get in all sorts of problems if the taps are very old and need gentle persuasion to remove them from the sink/basin unit

 

[WHPES]

Perhaps I'm teaching you all to suck eggs, but I have a brass type taper reamer as a tool for extracting stubborn taps. I saw off the tap above the base and power the reamer into the hole, which is usually enough, else I turn the basin over and do the same to the other end.