Outside tap

[Cumbria Handyma]

ballpark my friend..£300,how much do you charge.

Kin ell. I charge £70.00 and that is considered expensive in these parts. One of my competitors charges £40.00 but only fits a B&Q kit.

That said, are you being serious?

Plumbing prices for fit outside tap

 

[Cumbria Handyma]

ballpark my friend..£300,how much do you charge.

Are you being serious?

Plumbing prices for fit outside tap

 

[Cumbria Handyma]

ballpark my friend..£300,how much do you charge.

£300. that was funny.

 

[smtplumbing]

desrob thats cheap lol

 

[Cumbria Handyma]

desrob thats cheap lol

I think he meant £30 which would be very, very cheap. £300.00 would be a !88** off. :hammer:

 

[desrob]

I think he meant £30 which would be very, very cheap. £300.00 would be a !88** off. :hammer:

no i meant £300

 

[Cumbria Handyma]

no i meant £300

Only in your dreams mate :bobby:

 

[mcniven]

I'm about cheaper £267 cash

 

[desrob]

Only in your dreams mate :bobby:

whats your rate..

 

[Cumbria Handyma]

whats your rate..

Realistic. But more expencive than some of these

http://www.whatprice.co.uk/prices/plumbing/fit-outside-tap.html

 

[johnnyplumb]

and if you are using the standard back plate, fit it below the point where the pipe comes out the wall so that it can be drained in winter.

you can open the outside tap, then close the stopcock inside, but sometimes, even when it's fitted lower, there might be water still left in the pipe. if you want a 100% guarantee of no water left in the pipe, fit an air release tee after the stopcock. close the stopcock, open the tap & open the air release to drain. never done though.

 

[Dannypipe]

Look I'll do it for £250 and I'll even pet the dog. That's not a euphemism.

If you don’t have a dog, I’ll pet the cat.

If you don’t have a cat, call it £220 and with the extra £30 you’ve saved, go buy a pet.

 

[glenno1]

Im real cheap £200 plus cuppa and a jaffa cake

 

[Dannypipe]

Yeah, you'd do that and stitch up a fellow tradesmen. That outside tap was my job, and then you swept in with your big talk of tea and jaffa cakes. Great. You know I have a wife to feed right?

Go on then, I hope you choke on your jaffa cake. You stitched me up good and proper. I could drop to £210 and a Hob Nob, chocolate of course. But that's it. I have my pride.

 

[mcniven]

Il do it for £190 since its easy access

 

[Dannypipe]

Il do it for £190 since its easy access

Now everyone is just being silly.

 

[mcniven]

Ok £200

 

[mcniven]

What do u serious
do an outside tap for Danny??? Ur not a £45 full thing are u lol

 

[Dannypipe]

Outside tap, hmmmm about £110, maybe a bit more. Materials about £25/30. Shouldn't take long if it's drilling through by the kitchen sink and it's all easy to access.

A metre of 15mm pipe, a double check valve, a full bore ballafix, a back plate elbow and a bib tap, oh and a couple of elbows and an equal tee.

Shouldn't take long. Last one I did was last year. knock on my van window as I was packing up from another job. Charged £75 and it took me half hour. But I did have all the bits on board and did just walk over to the property and fit it easily.

 

[JCplumb]

I've been using outside taps as a foot in the door, got them on offer on my website for £40. I see it as advertising, takes 1/2 hour and the cost is covered. I leave a business card and have had a few repeat jobs off the back of it.
Supermarkets have been doing it for years with 'loss leaders', they'll sell something cheap at a loss in the hope that you also buy some other stuff while you're there. Like when asda did tins of plum tomatoes for 7p.

 

[glenno1]

Ye but they dont graft for that

 

[Cumbria Handyma]

I have been fitting outside taps for years, but have never, ever fitted one 1/2 hour. I suppose you could do it that quickly with a cheap B&Q self cutting crappo fitting.

 

[JCplumb]

Ye but they dont graft for that

Very true, I am only testing the waters to see if it's worth it for repeat business. And if it's not going to be a quick job I'll advise that it will cost more. Example, 2 weeks ago I fitted one in a stone cottage with 400mm ish hard as nails stone walls, took best part of an hour and a spent drill bit just to drill through, so that one cost £120.

I have been fitting outside taps for years, but have never, ever fitted one 1/2 hour. I suppose you could do it that quickly with a cheap B&Q self cutting crappo fitting.

Don't want to ruffle any feathers or anything, but that may be the difference between a handyman and a plumber. As long as there aren't any hidden issues like difficult to drain/refill cold pipes, boxed in pipework or silly stone walls half an hour is fast for fitting one but not uncommon. You're probably faster than me at the other services you provide, but I do plumbing day in day out and have done for years.
Isolate and drain down(<5 mins)
Drill through and fit wall plate and bib tap (10 mins)
Cut feed (2 mins)
Cut, clean and assemble pipes/fittings(5 -10 mins)
Solder up(2 mins)
Turn mains back on and run taps etc. (5 mins)
By my reckoning, you may even get a minute to eat a Jaffa Cake/chocolate hobnob while admiring your work
Not sure of the price of a b&q garden tap kit, but I'll bet it's not cheap compared to getting the bits you need from a plumbers merchant(I'd guess at about £15 for individual parts from Plumbfix + a couple of bits of leftover pipe from the toolbox). I actually used to fit the kits with self tappers when I was at college as pocket money jobs, must have done a dozen or so and not had any come backs from them, I fitted one in a house I rent out about 8 years ago and it's still going strong. Obviously wouldn't fit one now, not because they are rubbish, they're just not as good as doing it properly

 

[Dannypipe]

Yeah, they can easily be done in half an hour if the set up is easy.

I tend to just sweat an elbow onto a couple of bits of 15mm pipe. One to go through the wall, the other to go into the back plate elbow.
Drill my hole. Feed the pipe through. Mark drill and fit the back plate elbow, with the short section of pipe in it. Tighted comp fitting. Then isolate, drain, and cut tee into the mains. Couple more fittings, and an iso valve. Sweat them. Bit of sealant around the hole in the wall, job done. Half an hour is easily achievable.

 

[mcniven]

Could do an outside tap with good access in easy 20min