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I think you're outside of London, Scotland right? £100 per hour and that is per person on site! I did think it sounded pretty high. I'm guessing the guys working for Pimlico Plumbers and the like have a fair bit of downtime in order to be able to attend within an hour and work on small emergencies. They do also carry out longer works at the same rate though, that does add up fast.
There is a massive shortfall in skilled trades in London at the moment and an increase in demand so everyone is getting a bit desperate. The money is not even close to amounts a lot of people earn though, I have to put in a lot of hours to pay my dentist for example. Even at £100 per hour I'd have to put in more hours than he does.
It does depress me a bit that I'm charging so much less and allowing people to engage me in long term projects but that's my choice and I have to change my approach if I want to! Over lockdown I did a bit more emergency work and didn't enjoy it much.
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Yeah were based up in Glasgow. Aye at £140 per white filling rn dentists arent short of it, I have to do a fair bit still to make that.
Yeah as you said the ones charging that aren't busy with regular clients they are just looking to go out and make the big bucks on short easy "emergency jobs" and are sitting about doing it or else saying they are moving work and patching the regular paid jobs for the last min big money jobs. I personally would struggle going out and charging £100 for something that took 15 mins to fix, just feels like your a robber.
konastab01
I think painters and other trades are booked a lot further in advance than people doing heating/plumbing from experience. Who can wait 3 months for someone when they dont have heating or a burst pipe.
Were about 1 sometimes 2 weeks in advance but can always fit in jobs that cant wait to be seen in two weeks. I think the people paying £100 an hour for an emergency plumbers are a bit daft and also the folk charging that are fuckin at it but thats just my opinion.